Posted on 08/27/2015 1:17:18 PM PDT by fishtank
The Genesis Flood and Noah’s Ark. Fact or fiction?
by Tas Walker
Published: 27 August 2015 (GMT+10)
Many doubt the biblical story of Noah’s Flood. To many the story seems a gross exaggeration or a work of fiction. And if Noah’s Flood is not believable, why trust any historical account in the Bible? People have posed many objections to a factual interpretation of this event and this article (and the articles linked to it) answers many of the key questions people have about the Flood and the Ark.
(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...
"World" is a little bigger than that.
History is usually too weird to be fiction. No publisher would buy the stories if they were made up.
I mean think about it: when those ice sheets--which may have been at minimum just over 1,000 feet thick at the higher latitudes--melted, the melted water had to go somewhere. Modern humans--homo sapiens sapiens--have been around for circa 150,000 years, and they were certainly around when the last of those great ice sheets melted, flooding huge swaths of land.
You really need to read the entire linked article for answers to your objections.
Was there really a great flood?
by Maria Trimarchi
Stories of a great ancient flood pervade the mythology of hundreds of cultures. Westerners might be most familiar with the story of Noah told in the Old Testament book of Genesis, but a great flood is reported in folklore from cultures around the world, from the Middle East to the Americas, India, China and Southern Asia to name just a few.
An ancient Babylonian flood myth, the Epic of Gilgamesh, tells us a story analogous to that of Noah and his ark. In it, a man named Utnapishtim builds a ship to save his family and animals from floods brought on his city by a wrathful god. After seven days, Utnapishtim and his family come to rest safely on a mountaintop.
Greek and Roman mythology tell the tale of angry gods who planned to flood the Earth and destroy humanity; the story’s hero Deucalion and his wife take shelter in an ark and are spared. American Indian legends also tell of people taking shelter in a boat to be saved from a flood.
The stories go on and on, and scholars have noted similarities among accounts. While studying more than 200 flood myths, Creationist author James Perloff observed that a global flood was mentioned in 95 percent of the stories, people were saved in a boat in 70 percent and in 57 percent, the survivors found respite on a mountain [source: Apologetics Press].
If these hundreds of flood myths from different locations and cultures around the world are any indication, something must have happened on Earth to spur these accounts. Could there have been a global flood? Scientists have a few theories to suggest that yes, perhaps, there was. Let’s explore these theories and learn if such a flood happened and if it could ever happen again.....
http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/storms/great-flood.htm
The original Hebrew allows for the flood to have been a localized one.
So in your beginning of the human race, thousands appeared all at once to prevent inbreeding?
If I was a betting man..
I’d say Show me the Ark.
Remnants remain..
Time to git to done!
“Because most of the historical accounts in scripture do not deal with pre-historic events.”
If we have a historical account from Scripture, it’s not really a pre-historic event, now is it?
You're making presumptions. If Scripture is true, then such a term is meaningless. "civilization" only makes sense in the context of a multi-million-year-old Earth and the brutal macro-evolution that the Godless claim had to have happened to bring civilization about.
Fish & sea creatures could have lived. They didn’t need Noah’s ark. I guess birds could only survive on the ark; because of exhaustion after a few days of just flying around. Noah’s sons didn’t have to inbreed; they had wives who weren’t close kin. Animals lived on the ark. - Things back then were very primitive. If people got bored; they had the same loincloth to get unbored in. Earthworms wriggled in two by two. - As time went on, new & improved animals showed up on the scene, dogs sprang from wolves & the rest is history. Twinkie is kin to one of those people on the ark. It’s evident!
Make that ‘known world’ and it may work.. But still. That’s a lot of water.
Do you really not know what prehistoric means?
It was a regional cataclysm. Blame God? Heck. Blame the land lubbing liberals
Yep, with 120 years, if “the world” was just referring to some limited geographical area, no matter how large, he could have just walked clear of it. With 120 years you could walk from Siberia to Spain and back dozens of times.
Yes. The American Indian had a story of a great flood where the tribes built giant canoes for the old and the children. When looking for arrowheads in the NE States I always look for the highest point with running water nearby.
Pre-historic = pre-Eminem and Cindy Lauper
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