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The Genesis Flood and Noah’s Ark. Fact or fiction?
Creation Ministries International ^ | 8-27-2015 | Tas Walker

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 300manyearsoflabor; ark; arkreplica; belongsinreligion; creation; noah; noahsarc; noahsark; notanewstopic; shouldbinrelgion4m; thatsshowbiz
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To: DoughtyOne
There are also sea fossils on high elevations around the world.

The theory seems to be that floodwater conditions killed and fossilized entire populations of certain species of sea creatures and left others completely untouched, all over the world.

41 posted on 08/27/2015 1:46:07 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: VanDeKoik

You mean like before the fool too?


42 posted on 08/27/2015 1:47:46 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Boogieman; BenLurkin
If we have a historical account from Scripture, it’s not really a pre-historic event, now is it?


43 posted on 08/27/2015 1:48:09 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: NormsRevenge

that’s long ago...


44 posted on 08/27/2015 1:48:25 PM PDT by brivette
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To: ShadowAce

but, how can that be?


45 posted on 08/27/2015 1:49:20 PM PDT by brivette
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To: VanDeKoik

Read this and it will change your mind.
The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific ImplicationsPaperback– October 20, 1982

by John C. Whitcomb(Author), Henry M. Morris(Author)


46 posted on 08/27/2015 1:51:48 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: NormsRevenge

Cindy Lauper?

That is really going back to the dawn of time after time.


47 posted on 08/27/2015 1:51:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: fwdude

Remember, up until circa 12,000 years ago, much of the higher latitudes on Earth was covered be very thick ice sheets that may be at minimum 1,000 feet thick (and the higher mountain ranges had similar ice sheets—look at Yosemite Valley and Tuolumne Canyon inside Yosemite National Park). When those ice sheets melted, that resulted in massive-scale flooding of land—it’s possible places like the Canadian Shield were under water for many years as the ice sheets receded, then dried out to the modern form we see now.


48 posted on 08/27/2015 1:51:52 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: BenLurkin; Boogieman

For pre-flood times, a good term to use is “antediluvian”.


49 posted on 08/27/2015 1:52:13 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: fishtank

We know Egypt had a continuous history and culture from 3100 BCE. We see formation of it’s culture starting as early as 8,000 years ago. There is no interruption due to a natural event. It doesn’t fit in with Biblical chronology of a global flood.


50 posted on 08/27/2015 1:53:19 PM PDT by Eternal_Bear
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To: brivette

There are Stone Age monuments similar to Stonehenge on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The flood much more probably related to the collapse of the dam at the Pillars of Gibraltar. The Mediterranean was at one point a deep valley, not a sea. As sea levels rose following the ice age, the waters from the ocean broke through the entry and flooded everything, including the villages in the valley. FOr people’s of that time, that would have been “the whole world”,


51 posted on 08/27/2015 1:53:46 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: tacticalogic

Just curious why some folks would think all species of the sea had to be global.


52 posted on 08/27/2015 1:55:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: Twinkie

” I guess birds could only survive on the ark; because of exhaustion after a few days of just flying around.”

Sea birds might have made it, though they need dry land to breed. The flood only lasted a year though, so they would have only missed one breeding season.


53 posted on 08/27/2015 1:57:03 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: fishtank

I believe it to be fact. In fact I believe the entire bible is factual, Period. God said it. I beleive it.


54 posted on 08/27/2015 1:58:20 PM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Eternal_Bear

“We know Egypt had a continuous history and culture from 3100 BCE. We see formation of it’s culture starting as early as 8,000 years ago.”

If the current dating by Egyptologists is correct. That’s a pretty speculative endeavor. They’ve revised their dating in the past, and may do so again.


55 posted on 08/27/2015 1:58:22 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: BenLurkin

Well, actually I could ask you the same...


56 posted on 08/27/2015 1:59:18 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: American Faith Today

Linguistically, perhaps. Contextually, I don’t think so.


57 posted on 08/27/2015 2:00:09 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: demshateGod
Do you think in 120 years he could have found a safe place without needing a boat?

No. God told him to build that boat. Had he not no place would have been safe for him.

58 posted on 08/27/2015 2:01:00 PM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: SaveFerris

It applies, but fact is, the antediluvian world existed in prehistoric times.


59 posted on 08/27/2015 2:06:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: fishtank
Luke 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat , they drank , they married wives , they were given in marriage , until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came , and destroyed them all.

2 Peter 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of , that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished : 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store , reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

60 posted on 08/27/2015 2:07:46 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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