Proof of the Flood of Noah: wouldn't we be finding whale skeletons in the Mojave desert?

Question

Or shark skeletons in the Grand Canyon?

Something as out of place as that would certainly make the news.

actually albinoturtle, the rains that flooded the Earth lasted for 40 days, Noah didn't find land for 7 months. Plenty of time for whales to migrate anywhere.

rocky road - those are prehistoric (pre-biblical), if the story of Noah is taken at face value, they would have to be less than 6,000 years old.

Answer 1

Yes, you would think so. But there is absolutely no evidence.

Answer 2

Most salt water fish can't survive in fresh water and most fresh water fish can't survive in salt water. If the whole world was covered in a single big body of water, than everything would eventually reach the same salinity with only minor variations from area to area. Whatever that salinity level was, a large number of fish could not have survived in it and today there would be ONLY fresh water fish or ONLY salt water fish, but not both.

The Bible was never intended to be an atlas, cookbook, science textbook, or repair manual for a 1957 Chevy. It was intended to describe the covenant between God and his people and to establish a moral and religious framework for their lives. When the books of the Old Testament were given to the people, humans were living in simple farming societies with no modern concept of chemistry, science or higher math. They had no need to know about galaxies, DNA, atoms or plate tectonics and they would not even have had the background or context to understand those things if they did.

When a 4-year old child asks "Where do babies come from?", do you launch into a detailed PhD description of sperm, eggs, DNA, and chromosomes? No, you probably give a simplified answer that captures the spiritual truth that a child can understand without being completely accurate on the scientific details (ie: "when a man and a woman love each other, their love mixes together and forms a baby"). So too with the brief and vague description of world history at the start of the Bible.

Forget about evolution and the great flood for an instant and look at some of the most basic facts that everyone agrees on: that the continents of North and South America exist, that the earth is round, and that the earth orbits around the sun. For hundreds of years, the best religious minds in the world studied the Bible and did not even suspect ANY of the above facts before science and exploration discovered them independently.

The Bible HAS had a tremendous impact on world religion, culture, and morality since its existance. If it was intended by God to be a scientific textbook, than you would expect a similar long record of major scientific discoveries and advancements associated with it throughout history. In fact, of all the thousands of major scientific discoveries and advancements - the moon landing, the orbits of the planets, the vaccinations for disease, DNA and chromosomes, nuclear energy, the principles of electricity and chemistry that power our computers - NOT ONE of these discoveries or advancements was based primarily on scientific data or principles taken from reading the Bible. Not one in the entire history of the human race.

Of course, many scientists have been (and still are) spiritually inspired by the Bible, but they don't use it as scientific textbook to base their research on (despite religious fundamentalist claims to the countrary, most scientists do believe in God). Again, the Bible was intended as a spiritual contract between God and his people - and it has worked very well as that. It was never intended as a scientific textbook and it has never proven useful as one. People who try to use it as such (and who sadly make their faith DEPENDANT on it being a scientific textbook) are sadly missing the whole point.

Answer 3

Just because a place is filled with water doesn't mean animals would swim there. The temperature might not have been comfortable for animals at certain temperature.

Also, there is evidence of water in the Sahara. The region is filled with lots of salt (see the gold-salt trade), which is believed to be the result of once being filled with water.

Answer 4

We have found skeletons of aquatic animals in deserts. And keep in mind that fossils are tough to find. How many T-rex lived millions of years ago? We only have 2 complete T-rex skeletons though.

Answer 5

What about finding what may be left of THE ARK on a mountain? Remember, the Scripture said that the ark settled on top of a mountain in Turkey call Ararat.

Answer 6

Funny thing is they have found whale skeletons in the desert. Other aquatic life form skeletons in similar places.

Answer 7

I am not sure about the Noah Ark thing. Back then, people did not even know that the world was round. Just think what the people and hurricane Katrina thought......

Answer 8

Some claim to have found the ark but its under piles of dirt! The turkish government won't let these men dig it up! But they have taken xrays and thats how they knew it was a ark.

Answer 9

We have found remains in very strange places like on mountains way up. Also as the flood receded they would just have swam back with the water,

Answer 10

Watch the discovery channel. They are always finding fish fossils in the mountains far away from rivers and oceans.

Answer 11

noah took them with him, but if you read the Holy Bible and go to church you'll soon discover what you need to know