Christians, you DO realize that there is NO evidence for a worldwide flood right?

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I mean it's a cute story and all. God lovingly murders everyone on the planet except for one family and, two of every animal on the planet (somehow the kangaroos made it from Australia to the middle east huh?)
But in fact, that's all it is, a story. No evidence of a worldwide flood exists. None. I know some of you keep chriping about "plenty of evidence" yet when pressed, you seem to have something else to do or someplace to go. That's because you know it's a lie.
One fact that you all conveniently avoid is that the amount of water, on the ENTIRE surface of the earth, including the frozen poles, is insufficient to flood the entire landmass of the earth. In fact there would be only be a loss of about 2% of the shoreline over the planet.
And you also conveniently forget that any ship so described would destroy itself under it's own weight let alone survive the smallest wave. But hey, continue to delude (pun intended) yourselves about this fantasy. It's all you have after all...

Oh so now you guys backpedal and say that they "just called where they were, the "whole world" huh?
What a cowardly cop-out! Honestly the more I talk to you programmed idiots the happier I am that I left this cult when I was 16. Everytime you guys post something you expose more and more of your outright ignorance.
Hey, keep it up, the more you do that, the more people realize just how futile your religion is and become atheists!

Answer 1

The kangaroos were lucky. They sprouted fins because Santa God gave some to them, and they swam all the way.

And what about the poor little amoeba? The unicellulars? Were they saved? On what day were they created?

Answer 2

Sure didn't know that. You best tell all the scientists that have admitted there are more than enough evidence to confirm there was a worldwide flood. Just because there is not so much water now does not mean it was not here at one time. And the theory was tested and proven that a ship of that type could be built and managed without any trouble. If your theory is so true, how can the ships of today that have a lot more mass and weight, float and go through storms without breaking up. Better get the facts straight before you start spouting off things you don't know anything about. Oh, and by the way, I am not running and will answer any questions you may have. So come on any time. I am here whenever you want to present anything you may think you have.

Answer 3

I don't think name calling will do here. Why would it have to be anything more than the world known to man? Couldn't a super tide caused by a space body passing close to the earth cause a flood of biblical proportions. Or even a hit with a wave so large it took months to have the waters recede? You have no idea how God did this.. Every world culture has a similar story in their traditions. Maybe all these peoples could have had a common beginning. All men are brothers, right? There may be more to this than you have considered. After all doesn't it read that the fountain of the earth opened up?

Answer 4

YG, where do you get your stats about flood evidence or the lack there of? Christians, if it was a local flood why would God tell Noah to build? He should've told Noah to just move. Property in Europe has gone through the roof since then.

Going back to proof of the flood, geologist classify rock formations by the type of rock they contain. A layer of the same type of rock is called a stratum. Many scientist believe that certain types of stratum originated in certain time periods such as the Eocene, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of time. There are many places on the earth where the order of these strata in reversed. Examples of this are the Matterhorn and Mythen peaks in the Alps. The order of the strata has been completely reversed in respect to the earth around it. Though many explanations have been offered for this phenomenon, the castestrophic effects of a flood as described in the Bible is still the best explanation.

This may not close the vote for you, YG, but there are other readers out there who it might cause them to at least raise some questions, as it did for me.

Thanks for the cute question

Answer 5

You DO realize that Christianity is concerned with MUCH bigger things than the flood, right?

Also, the BIble is NOT the only piece of literature that contains an account of a major, devastating flood. Read the story of Gilgamesh, as well as some Babylonian and Greek mythologies. And who said anything about a flood being literally world-wide? How "big" was the world at the time this flood supposedly took place? People had know idea there were Americas, most weren't even aware of Europe or the northern areas of Asia. The flood destroyed the "world" as they knew it.

Answer 6

The whole reason why we are here, right now, is a matter of choice. Period. We can choose to be atheists, agnostics, Christians, Budhists, etc. But if you are making choices based upon bad information, how good will your choices be?

It sounds like your present perspective on Christianity is very similar to the one I had for most of my life. I was very heavily oriented from a scientific perspective. I knew the things I was being told (like the global flood story) was pure doo-doo. When I was 8 years old I asked my preacher if he realized that the amount of water that fell in order to submerge Mt Everest would have raised the global sea level by 6" per hour, for 40 days and nights! He looked at me like I had leprosy or something.

Tradition has really messed up the truths that are hidden in scripture. Noah's flood was only a regional flood, designed to wipe out the offspring of the nephilim and the daughters of Adam. It had absolutely nothing to do with killing off Africans, Native Americans, Asians, Western Europeans, etc. Animals put on board the ark were clean (7 pairs, for sacrifices later) and unclean (farm critters to replenish lost stock). No elephants, aardvarks, or kangaroos.

Reading scripture in English and having a little preacher who is trained in traditional tales explain it all to you is not a good idea if you want to make an intelligent, informed decision. Check it out in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. The truth is there, but you'll have to dig it out with some effort, if you truly want to know. It's all about the choices we make.

Good luck with your choices.

Answer 7

hi, I agree, of course. I saw a program a few weeks ago that was showing some evidence of a massive, but local flood, that would have been consistant with the story of Noah. So you could understand why they would think that the whole world was flooded, but it wasn't actually. On another note.... And, even though the information is probably biased, I saw a special that showed the discovery of a very ancient large boat way up high in the hills near Mt.Sinai . The old thing was very deteriorated as one would expect, and was basically level with the surrounding piece of land it was stuck in. Very interesting. Have you seen this at all?

Answer 8

I find it interesting that you are so sure of yourself and yet give no evidence.
Also surely you must realize that many christians do not think it was global because of translation.

Noah's Flood not global, nor does the Bible say it was: proofs

Below are several excerpts from correspondences about Noah's Flood:

In the flood Scriptures, the words “earth & heavens” can be local and not global. The can also mean the earth as a land orl and not glob and the heavens as the visible arch of the sky. The earth being round allows that it could have been referring to the heavens viable from the flood locale. I know how they read in the English, but observe the Hebrew definitions from the Strong’s Concordance:

Gen 7:19
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven , were covered. (KJV)

Definitions for above:

earth: Hebrew word #776 'erets (eh'-rets); from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land): KJV-- X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X nations, way, + wilderness, world.

heaven: Hebrew word #8064 shamayim (shaw-mah'-yim); dual of an unused singular shameh (shaw-meh'); from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve): KJV-- air, X astrologer, heaven (-s).

To illustrate the sometimes confusing English translations in our Bible (and showing why a Strong’s concordance is a most valuable study aid), I supple Cain’s discussion with God after God told Cain his punishment. Observe the use of the English phrase “thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth”. Here the word(s) “the earth” means ‘soil’ (Strong’s # 127). Surely Cain did not mean “off the face of the whole planet”. For Cain was driven of that soil that he was on into the land of Nod. Cain’s driving away was not global any more that the flood of Noah was global:

Gen 4:13-14
13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth [earth here = erets, as in the flood Scripture above]; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. (KJV)

God bless!

Nick

Answer 9

Truth is that most people don't want the truth, they want reassurance that what they already believe, no matter how unsupportable or outlandish, is the truth. When the logic fights their point of view, they resort to name calling and insults, rather that examining what they have been thinking.

People will go to amazing lengths to hang onto their beliefs, no matter how far off target. The best thing you can do against such people is to let them go on their way. You aren't going to convince them. Fortunately, most of the time, they just go on leading misinformed lives. Unfortunately, at others, they decide to continually stick their noses into other peoples' private business. They just seem to need the validation that everyone else is doing or thinking things their way. To them there is only one way, one path, one answer.

I feel sorry for these people, their faith is so weak. They either must be absolutely right, or their world falls apart. How little faith they have in our world, the human race and the balance of forces in the universe.

Answer 10

Actually every culture has a story of a worldwide flood. There is evidence. I'm not christian but research things befaore you make an argument. There is plenty of proof.
When the sphynx was built, that whole area was covered in water. Egypt was green.
I suggest you read "fingerprints of the gods" by graham hancock.

Answer 11

there a fossils of trees (from about 5000 years ago right about the time the flood took place) standing up straight in manny layers od sediment, there is NO WAY that this could happen over millions of years, it happened in one big sweep, where the earth was flooded and is moved all sorts of sand and gravel around covering all plant life in a matter of minutes.

the oil under ground, it came from all sorts of plant life being covered very quickly, now most scientists say that is from billions and billions of years ago, which just isn't possible, the LONGEST that amount a pressure that is under the groud could be there would be 15,000 years, and think it used to be a greater pressure, think of all the oil we've taken out already....

plus the biggest proof we have is that its in the bible....



there is plenty of evidence, some people just don't like to takt he time to find it