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 ...
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.
You mean like before the fool too?
that’s long ago...
but, how can that be?
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)
Cindy Lauper?
That is really going back to the dawn of time after time.
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.
For pre-flood times, a good term to use is “antediluvian”.
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.
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”,
Just curious why some folks would think all species of the sea had to be global.
” 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.
I believe it to be fact. In fact I believe the entire bible is factual, Period. God said it. I beleive it.
“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.
Well, actually I could ask you the same...
Linguistically, perhaps. Contextually, I don’t think so.
No. God told him to build that boat. Had he not no place would have been safe for him.
It applies, but fact is, the antediluvian world existed in prehistoric times.
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