Noah's Ark?

Question

If the story of Noah's Ark was true then the oceans would have greatly changed. The temp., depth, salinity, currents, and more would have changed. If this all happened then most life in the sea would have been killed off. Today we would not have any coral reefs and other such beauties. The oceans would be almost empty but that is not the case. How could this be if Noah's Ark happened?

Answer 1

Actually, because of the flood we have coral reefs! The oldest coral reef--the Great Barrier Reef--is about 4,000 years old (Wikipedia says about 8,000 years... I'll take it) about the time the flood knocked the world on its side!

And of course the depths, salinity and currents have changed! The continental shelfs show evidence of that!

Temperatures? Sure, the temperatures of the entire planet have changed, not just the oceans! That's why we find warm-weather animals frozen in ice in Siberia.

Yes, a lot of the life of the sea has been killed off, and men have had a lot to do with that too. Seen any giant squids lately? Not so much. But they did exist and have been documented, some over 100 feet long.

Man, the argument you just gave "against" Noah's Ark has provided me with even more confidence that the flood was a real, global event!

Thanks!

Answer 2

Actually, paeleontologists do believe the oceans have changed. According to their studies, they think the oceans were much shallower biiiiiiilliiiiiiiions and biiiiiiiiillliiiiiiiiiions of years ago, and that the salinity was different, etc.

Some think this all changed in the catastrophic event that killed off the dinosaurs. They don't really know, however.

If you think about it, though, the world changing like that wouldn't necessarily affect the earth's oceans that much, that all life in them would die. In fact, a world-wide flood that killed all land animals, would increase the food available to ocean life for a little while. That much fresh water would have enabled some fish to migrate to places, they may not have been able to reach before that event. Fish are incredibly tough creatures, ocean fish especially so. They take tough currents all the time. Coral animals aren't always sessile; their infancy is spent floating around, looking for a good resting space. Don't even get me started on plankton, salmon, sharks and bass!

The real miracle in the Great Flood isn't that the oceans survived. It's that the people and animals on the Ark did!

Answer 3

Actually in many of the world's mythologies there is a story of a great flood. So at some point much of the known world had to have been flooded. Also, several years ago in Turkey they found a boat at the top of a mountain that they think may have been the Ark. It's been too long since I saw the documentary about it so I don't remember the details.

Answer 4

You're assuming that the initial earth is like it is now. The flood DID change things to what we see today.
Today there is 70% water on the earth. The original state of the planet had much less water. The oceans ARE the flood waters.

If you are truly asking the question and not trying to be argumentitive, you can contact me and I will explain more.

Ask yourself if there wasn't a flood, how did we get all of the fossils?
If there wasn't a flood, then where did all the rock layers come from? In case you didn't know, land erodes. It doesn't grow layers.

Answer 5

Actually your way off base. It had never rained because the earth was covered with a thick cloud blanket. Read the account.
There was waters above the earth and on the earth.
The earth was like a giant hot house. It said thick gloom was its swaddling band. In other words a cloud blanket covered the earth. When it rained it was torrential as these clouds gave up the water. Tons of water dropped and changed the shape and continents of the earth. The whole earth was changed.
Seas were smaller and it was an act of god.
Remember the 3 Hebrews who were thrown into a fiery furnace and even their clothes didn't smell burned. He kept Noah save and maybe made things different by separating continents people he thought wouldn't fight. more room to spread out.
However he did it, isn't important. What is important is why he did it. It was because the earth was full of violence because of people.

Answer 6

The ocean has had thousands of years to correct itself..

We all know that the ocean has a remarkable ability to heal itself in spite of our best efforts to pollute it to nothingness.

Perhaps the answer to your question is, Noah's ark happened. And God, the entity who was capable of flooding the world that he created, restored everything to the way it used to be before he flooded it.

It is not for you to know whether or not that is the case. If there is a God, then perhaps all will be revealed to you when you die.

If there is not a god, then nothing that you do in life will matter anyways. All you are doing is waiting for your turn at being turned into fertilizer so that you might enrich whomever is on your life insurance policy.

I hope that helped clear things up for you. =)

Answer 7

Noah's Ark legend only makes mention of a great flood... presumably, the sea creatures would have survived. If "God" made it rain for... what was it.. 40 days and 40 nights? ( reminds me of Lent, the moses/desert story, etc.) Then rainwater, which is made from absorbed water in the atmosphere, would be both fresh and salt water. Hey, wait a minute... doesn't it rain longer than that in the pacific northwest? I thought their rainfall was something like 200 days a year? Hmm now I'm confused..... Sorry for the crappy answer.... after all, I'm only a pagan ;)

Answer 8

There would also be marks on the earth of the water but it just isn't there. There have been many studies on this and they have come to the conclusion that if there really was a flood it was on just part of the world. A small area in fact. However, man at the time thought it was a very large area since they could only see water where land used to be.

Answer 9

i agree life in the sea would have been killed off if the myth was literally true. and since dinos were before people, dinos had to have been on the ark. (although one genesis account has the people created before the animals, one after)

I don't know how old the reefs are - more than thousands of years? If so, then I guess they would be gone already. Of course, lots are unhappily dying now.

Answer 10

Jesus is a real person mentioned in secular works and he mentioned the flood of Noah's day, and remember, he saw it first hand from heaven. Noah's Ark was built, saved 8 persons and the animals, it was real. Another proof that the flood happened is sea shells on the tops of mountains, large amounts of fossils from mass extinction, and mammoths frozen with food still in their mouths.