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This taken at face value would mean that the waters would have topd mount Everest over 7 miles high. If you take the duration usually accepted by Christianity (40 days), the water would have been falling at a rate of 462 inches per hour. That is more rain in a single hour that any place in the world gets in a year{{Fact}}. Such a torrent of water would have literally striped the earth bare of soil. If the flood had occurred then the survivors on the ark would have come back to a desolate world of bedrock.
 
This taken at face value would mean that the waters would have topd mount Everest over 7 miles high. If you take the duration usually accepted by Christianity (40 days), the water would have been falling at a rate of 462 inches per hour. That is more rain in a single hour that any place in the world gets in a year{{Fact}}. Such a torrent of water would have literally striped the earth bare of soil. If the flood had occurred then the survivors on the ark would have come back to a desolate world of bedrock.
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Whether the water actualy coverd mount Everest though is open to debate. It could be claimed that the verse about the mountains being swampd only refers to mountains in the middle east area where Noah and his family lived (This is evidence for a human orgigin and not a divine one for the bible though, as most chrisitans claim. A omnipotent god would have known all mountains were not coverd). Regardless, the bible tells us that the Ark landed on top of mount Ararat so if the bible were true the flood was at least XX Ft. high.
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Some Young Earth Creationists claim the Grand Canyon was formed in the aftermath of the Great Flood, a rate of erosion never seen since.
 
Some Young Earth Creationists claim the Grand Canyon was formed in the aftermath of the Great Flood, a rate of erosion never seen since.

Revision as of 20:58, 11 July 2007

An artists interpertation on animals boarding the ark.

Noah's Ark is an Old Testament myth about a man named Noah. The full text of the myth can be found here

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random stuff

  1. Family members of Noah were the only ones who survived god's flood. Therefore they were the only ones left to reproduce. That means that the new human race must have been started incestuously by only a few people. (Funny, most of humanity doesn't look Jewish.)
  2. Genesis 7:20 says; "the water rose fifteen (15) cubits at its highest." The cubit used by the Hebrews measures eighteen (18) inches, both officially and from ancient measurements. that means the the great flood was only 22' 6''. That is certainly a massive amount of water when consider it covered the entire earth but it is nowhere large enough to cover every mountain and hill as the Bible claimed it to.[1]

Chronology

The flood story has always been plagued by problems with the exact chronology. The bible gives many often conflicting statements about the duration and sequence of events.


First we get this quote that seems to say that the flood was 40 days in duration:

7:17 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth;

Then we get this quote seems to say that the flood was 150 days in duration:

8:3 - And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

These verses tell us that the ark landed on top of mount Ararat 5 months (150 days, assuming each month has 30 days) after the flood began, this is the same day that the "the waters were abated":

7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

Erosion

The flood, had it happened, would have also caused immense erosion, for which no evidence has yet been found. The bible says;

and the mountains were covered.

This taken at face value would mean that the waters would have topd mount Everest over 7 miles high. If you take the duration usually accepted by Christianity (40 days), the water would have been falling at a rate of 462 inches per hour. That is more rain in a single hour that any place in the world gets in a year[citation needed]. Such a torrent of water would have literally striped the earth bare of soil. If the flood had occurred then the survivors on the ark would have come back to a desolate world of bedrock.

Whether the water actualy coverd mount Everest though is open to debate. It could be claimed that the verse about the mountains being swampd only refers to mountains in the middle east area where Noah and his family lived (This is evidence for a human orgigin and not a divine one for the bible though, as most chrisitans claim. A omnipotent god would have known all mountains were not coverd). Regardless, the bible tells us that the Ark landed on top of mount Ararat so if the bible were true the flood was at least XX Ft. high.


Some Young Earth Creationists claim the Grand Canyon was formed in the aftermath of the Great Flood, a rate of erosion never seen since.

Water Weirdness

Presumably, Noah didn't take any fish on board his Ark, yet they all survived. Odd, since most freshwater fish die quickly in salt water, and vice versa, and with all the world's waters being mixed, most fish should have died out, as did the trilobites. Even more bizarrely, while the fish managed to survive in their unbreathable water, the air-breathing Plesiosaurs, who could have survived as the whales did, all died out.

Once the Flood was over, all land plants should have been dead from 40+ days of darkness and submersion, and with the entirety of the Earth having been submerged in salt water, there's no reason to expect they'd be able to grow back (salt is VERY bad for land plants). Yet the survival of all plant-life was taken for granted, as was food for the travelling animals.

Origins

Some scholars believe that the story of Noah's Ark was an adaptation of the Babylonian myth of Utnapishtim who also saved a small portion of humanity from the wrath of his gods on an ark.

Pseudoscientific explanations

The Creationists who believe that the story of the Ark is literal, historic fact have had to bend biology, meteorology, history, geology, and basic physics in order to make it sound even remotely plausible. (Need examples.)[1]

See Also

Flood geology Examples of God personally killing people


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 The Whole Silly Flood Story
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