Jesus is real. He what is says he is. There was also a great flood.
> Jesus is real. He (is) what is says he is. There was also a great flood...
I know that and believe it. Yet the fact remains that the Ark must — per force — have had some serious Outboard motors deployed in order to drop all the unique animals off in the places where they are only found on the globe.
And there remains the issue that Mt Ararat — where the Ark crash-landed — is many feet above sea level from most parts of NZ and Oz: meaning that somehow our NZ animals must either have treaded water for a very long time until the waters subsided, or the Ark must have been transported uphill somehow onto Mt Ararat. Water finds its own level, you see: a universal flood that places the Ark say 10,000 feet above sea level means that sea level was approximately 10,000 feet above where it is now, WORLDWIDE. Plus-or-minus, given tides...
Like I say, the whole question brings about a Crisis of Faith for me. I don’t know how to reconcile it, and I try not to. Some things just weren’t meant to be explained or understood, I guess...
*DieHard*
Biblical scholars generally place the flood at about 4350 years ago.
That is an easy time period to examine; archaeologists do it all the time.
There is no world-wide sediment layer at that time period. Rather, cultures regularly continue from before to after that date, with continuity of DNA, site development, artifact styles, etc.