Why do people not believe in the world wide flood?

Question

I would really like to hear what others think on this.

but so you know I do believe in the world wide flood I believe everthing
my Bible say for it is the WORD OF GOD!

Answer 1

I think that it scares them. It is terrifying, sometimes, to know that God holds societies accountable for their behaviors.

Answer 2

1.Lack of geologic evidence. A flood that massive would have created an obvious geologic layer that would be easily identifiable even today. None exists.


2. The building of the ark. Technology with materials they had a sea worthy ship that size is not possible. The longest wooden ships in modern seas are about 300 feet, and these require reinforcing with iron straps and leak so badly they must be constantly pumped. The ark was 450 feet long

3.Getting the animals on the ark. Could animals have traveled from elsewhere? If the animals traveled from other parts of the world, many of them would have faced extreme difficulties.

Some, like sloths and penguins, can't travel overland very well at all.
Some, like koalas and many insects, require a special diet. How did they bring it along?
Some cave-dwelling arthropods can't survive in less than 100% relative humidity.
Some, like dodos, must have lived on islands. If they didn't, they would have been easy prey for other animals. When mainland species like rats or pigs are introduced to islands, they drive many indigenous species to extinction. Those species would not have been able to survive such competition if they lived where mainland species could get at them before the Flood.

Were dinosaurs and other extinct animals on the ark? According to the Bible, Noah took samples of all animals alive at the time of the Flood. If, as creationists claim, all fossil-bearing strata were deposited by the Flood, then all the animals which became fossils were alive then. Therefore all extinct land animals had representatives aboard the ark.

It is also worth pointing out that the number of extinct species is undoubtedly greater than the number of known extinct species. New genera of dinosaurs have been discovered at a nearly constant rate for more than a century, and there's no indication that the rate of discovery will fall off in the near future.

4. The amount of food needed to carry in order to feed the animals, the amount of time and work with the number of people they had to feed and clean out the feces of the animals, etc... Ark could not realistically have carried all the animals as well as the food supply.

5. Similarities between the Biblical flood story and the Gilgamesh flood story which predates it.

Just a few reasons.

Answer 3

At least 80% of Americans do (America is 80% christian). I do also, because in addition to the Bible, nearly every culture on the planet has a world wide flood story (seems unlikely that nearly everyone would have one if it didn't happen).

As far as the Bible being the word of God, to a point I agree. I believe the original texts came directly from God, but remember humans have had a hold of the Bible for thousands of years. There is absolute proof that the King James version of the Bible has been modified, there is absolute proof that portions of the Bible have been left out because their teachings didn't fit in with the teachings of the churches, partially because some of those teachings were made up by humans (such as the trinity doctrine). The trinity doctrine was designed to bring in Egyptian followers, who believed all gods came in the form of trinities and would not join christianity because Jehovah was one person, Jesus was one person, and most of the early texts don't even refer to the Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost if you prefer) as a person at all. That is why there is so much attack on the Bible as being the direct word of God.

Answer 4

The placement of fossils and also the geologic column show this to be utterly false.

Plus there were actually several civilisations on the earth that don't have any records of the flood despite having unbroken literary records throughout this period.

In other words, people don't believe it because it never happened.

The mass speciation that would have to occur from that time is also not possible, and belies a rate of evolution far greater than any biologist would dare venture - carnivores did not exist before the flood? eh?

Go here for some reading:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html

Here is a small section:
How was the fossil record sorted in an order convenient for evolution? Ecological zonation, hydrodynamic sorting, and differential escape fail to explain:

* the extremely good sorting observed. Why didn't at least one dinosaur make it to the high ground with the elephants?
* the relative positions of plants and other non-motile life. (Yun, 1989, describes beautifully preserved algae from Late Precambrian sediments. Why don't any modern-looking plants appear that low in the geological column?)
* why some groups of organisms, such as mollusks, are found in many geologic strata.
* why organisms (such as brachiopods) which are very similar hydrodynamically (all nearly the same size, shape, and weight) are still perfectly sorted.
* why extinct animals which lived in the same niches as present animals didn't survive as well. Why did no pterodons make it to high ground?
* how coral reefs hundreds of feet thick and miles long were preserved intact with other fossils below them.
* why small organisms dominate the lower strata, whereas fluid mechanics says they would sink slower and thus end up in upper strata.
* why artifacts such as footprints and burrows are also sorted. [Crimes & Droser, 1992]
* why no human artifacts are found except in the very uppermost strata. If, at the time of the Flood, the earth was overpopulated by people with technology for shipbuilding, why were none of their tools or buildings mixed with trilobite or dinosaur fossils?
* why different parts of the same organisms are sorted together. Pollen and spores are found in association with the trunks, leaves, branches, and roots produced by the same plants [Stewart, 1983].
* why ecological information is consistent within but not between layers. Fossil pollen is one of the more important indicators of different levels of strata. Each plant has different and distinct pollen, and, by telling which plants produced the fossil pollen, it is easy to see what the climate was like in different strata. Was the pollen hydraulically sorted by the flood water so that the climatic evidence is different for each layer?

Answer 5

The short answer:
There is a mountain of scientific discussion that proves beyond any reasonable doubt that a global flood could not have occurred at any time in which humans have been on this earth.

There is also a mountain of scientific evidence, twice as high as that first one, that proves that the flood DID NOT occur.

Of course no one can stop you from believing it anyway. All you have to do is say science doesn’t work for you.

Answer 6

There is not enough water on the earth to physically cover the planet. Also, Lets just say it was flooded. There would be no land to calm the sea. Noah only had wood to build his ark. A wooden ship would have no chance to survive in a sea that has no land to break up the waves. Especially a wooden ship so large to take 2 of every animal. It's impossible. Even a steel ship wouldn't survive the raging seas of a flooded Earth!

Answer 7

There are many stories from various civilizations of a "Great Flood", not just the account in the Bible.

I've not discussed the world wide flood w/ anyone, so don't know anyone who doesn't believe in it.

Answer 8

Because if they believe in the flood they would have to believe in a whole lot more and it scares them to think about repenting of their sins. Their whole life would have to change if they believe that. But there is proof that it happened, because there are weird groupings of fossils that they found that seem like they were all trying to find high ground and got trapped on a mountain together.

Answer 9

To admit it would mean just one more Bible story is true. Ultimately they would have to admit that there is a God. They can not stand the idea.

The evidence is overwhelming. For an idiot not to believe in the flood is acceptable. For a scientist not to believe in a global flood shows conspiracy to hide the truth. They all know it-they just refuse to admit it.

Answer 10

Yes, you've been programmed well.

Do you REALLY think there's a way even areas such as Denver (who let's not forget is called the MILE HIGH CITY) were under water? There isn't enough water on the entire PLANET for this to happen!

And let's not even discuss this whole boat with two of every animal on it. That's just absurd.

You keep believing everything in that book and be sure to buy a new one every time they change something in it.

Think for yourself.

Answer 11

Ok, hon. I bet you can't answer me these then:

Can you explain how the degree of genetic variation in contemporary animals resulted from the few on the Ark?

or

Explain how a viable population was established for all of those animal kinds from only a single pair of each?

or

Explain how there were pairs, male and female, of social (forming colonies), parthenogenic (female only) and hermaphroditic (both sexes in one individual) animals?

I have more, but I'd like you to back up your statement, if you'd be so kind...unless of course you are only going by what you have been told, as apposed to looking into the truth of it yourself? Surely you wouldn't be THAT gullible now, would you!???


Oh BTW, Adamray...is deliberately misquoting scripture a sin? Just wondering why you are doing that...lying to back up your words, perhaps?

:)