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Coastal flooding, yes. Global continental submersion resulting in the destruction of all life, no.
And:
A) There was no ark.
B) The last Ice Age ended around 10,000 years before the story of Utnapishtum (the "Noah" in the original flood story the Biblical version was based off of)
Is this the name of a book, or person? I haven't heard of Utnapishtum.
Is this the name of a book, or person? I haven't heard of Utnapishtum.
Utnapishtim (aka Ziasudra) was prompted to build an ark by the god Enki in the original flood story found in The Epic of Gilgamesh. It predates the Bible by at least 1000 years, and is the likely source of the Biblical flood myth.
For a particular area, perhaps (and of course, fossilization is a rare event). Point is, there has never been a complete extermination of all life on the entire planet whether by flood, asteroid or other calamity.
Yes, just clarifying that it was A "flood".. not THE flood (mythical Biblical flood)
Some sea life indeed may have survived, but I doubt that life existed on Earth [on land] since the dawn of time. Evolution.
Assuming Noah to have been real, and the story true...would you like to share a smallish boat with two T-Rex????
Assuming the story is true who would want to put a bunch of territorial carnivores with a bunch of vegetarian omnivores. That boat would have been a slaughterhouse with wolves, tigers, lions, etc battling each other and slaughtering other animals. The bigger animals would probably get upset and start trampling smaller ones. A T-rex wouldn't help, but I don't see the t-mex making it much worse.
Some sea life indeed may have survived, but I doubt that life existed on Earth [on land] since the dawn of time. Evolution.
Huh? Not sure what you are writing here. Life did not exists on Earth since the dawn of time, since the earth itself, didn't even exist until long after the dawn of time. And evolution didn't exst, until after life arose.
Assuming the story is true who would want to put a bunch of territorial carnivores with a bunch of vegetarian omnivores. That boat would have been a slaughterhouse with wolves, tigers, lions, etc battling each other and slaughtering other animals. The bigger animals would probably get upset and start trampling smaller ones. A T-rex wouldn't help, but I don't see the t-mex making it much worse.
Moderator cut: insult Creationists will say that all animals were vegetarians and simply ignore or fail to see the logistic problems with the ridiculous story of Noah's ark.
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Reason: let the creationists speak for themselves
IIRC creationists will say that all animals were vegetarians and simply ignore or fail to see the logistic problems with the ridiculous story of Noah's ark.
...or they will say that "the Lord" calmed their desire to eat each other with 'majik'.
Moderator cut: edit Creationists will say that all animals were vegetarians and simply ignore or fail to see the logistic problems with the ridiculous story of Noah's ark.
It is not a ridiculous story at all. It is your position which is ridiculous. Jesus Christ Himself confirmed the Mosaic account of the flood and that of Noah's ark (Matthew 24). The evidence bears the fact up.
Water ripple marks in the mountains of Germany:
Marine life near the summit of Mt. Everest:
Polystrate fossils revealing trees extending through several 'million yrs' of geologic strata. Trees that could not possibly have stood for that long without rotting and going back to the earth.
This is a clear indication of rapid burial for biological life will not fail to deteriorate and return to the soil from which it came in just a few years.
Fossil fish in the Alps:
Millions of fossils of both land and marine life all over the world indicating rapid burial under cataclysmic conditions:
Many fossils found were in the act of (a) giving birth, or (b) eating other marine life:
But this is just a sampling of what I could post as far as the evidence for a universal deluge as mentioned in the Bible. It's there all right but the skeptics live in denial.
Last edited by Miss Blue; 01-30-2010 at 04:08 PM..
Not to mention that a number of cultures--not just the Christians, have a "Flood" story.
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Not ridiculous
