A totally global flood 4000 years ago??? A challenge to all non creation believers?

Question

I believe in the flood of Noah and i challange anyone to please explain to me why the largest desert in the world (Sahara), and the largest corral reef (@ Australia) is 4000 years old?

Answer 1

Why would a flood create a desert or a coral reef? Anyway, the oldest coral in the Great Barrier Reef is only 1000 years old, the current structure is 6-8000 years old, and the coral skeletons on which it's based are around 500 000 years old. 4000 doesn't really feature there.

Answer 2

Um, a lot of water isn't going to create a desert or a coral reef...

"The climate of the Sahara has undergone enormous variation between wet and dry over the last few hundred thousand years. During the last ice age, the Sahara was bigger than it is today, extending south beyond its current boundaries[2]. The end of the ice age brought wetter times to the Sahara, from about 8000 BCE to 6000 BCE, perhaps due to low pressure areas over the collapsing ice sheets to the north[3]."

"According to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the current, living reef structure is believed to have begun growing on an older platform about 18,000 years ago, but the oldest datable coral on the reef now is a species of Porites known as boulder coral, which is only about 1,000 years old (it grows about 1 centimetre per year).[4]

The research outcomes funded by the CRC Reef Research Centre estimates the present, living reef structure at 6,000 to 8,000 years old, formed upon coral 'skeletons' dating back half a million years.[5]"

Damn facts getting in the way again.

Answer 3

You're theories are not a challenge. The only challenge is yours. You should first try to get some information about what there is known about events that happened on earth in the past. As far as I know the Sahara started to form after the end of the ice-age over 10000 years ago. Your information is not correct at all, so I'd advice you to do some research before you start making all kinds of false claims (like a false prophet) and if you still have questions left, don't ask them in the Religion & Spirituality section, because this showes you are only living in your own fantasy world.

Answer 4

I read some answer's with dates that contradict yours...I've heard that other religions, including Native American Indian religions-which, btw, have no mention of a deity even closely resembling the OT God-have their own flood stories AND I've read scientific articles that state in that terminology how a global flood would be impossible w/o spinning the globe off it's track
there's archaeological evidence of floods that affected huge areas but nothing worldwide...you know, I've probably read a million reasons why the Noah's Ark story fails to stand up to scrutiny, but if you're interested in flooding of that region, I also read that a story about a Gilgamesh describes the same characters
I'd try a different challenge if I were you

Answer 5

I think you've hit the nail on the head. There was enough water to cover most of the highest mountains, and there has never been that much water on earth since.
If the entire atmosphere were to drop its water content onto the earth, in the form of liquid water, the ocean would rise at most 500 feet. If it were to drop its total water content in the form of snow the entire surface of the earth would be covered between 30 and 50 feet.

So all that water that covered most of the highest mountains where did it come from and where did it go?

And there's a whole slough of other questions. How did Noah get lizards native only to the Galapagos Islands on his dumb boat, not to mention kiwis?

On second thought, this is a trick question, isn't it?

Answer 6

The Sahara is only 4000 years old huh? Thats a new one..... It is beleived to be over 12000 years old. Last time that area was a rain forest was 12000 years ago.....

Okay, so lets suppose that Noah's Flood really happened....

can you please explain to me why there is no evidence for this the world over? Shouldnt there be a layer that covers the ENTIRE Earth showing a global flood? Well, there isnt. There is, however, global layers showing volcanic activity millions of years ago, as well as evidence of asteroid strikes millions of years ago... but no flooding.

Sorry bub, youre wrong...

Answer 7

There's no geological evidence for a worldwide flood.

If you want to believe something that is completely contrary to the scientific evidence, be my guest. If you think you're going to look clever, you're in for a disappointment.

p.s. As for the response from TheP, many cultures do have a story of a devastating flood. Since cultures tend to settle where there is a reliable water supply, it would be surprising if there WERE NOT stories of floods. Again, no evidence for a worldwide event.

Answer 8

Maybe there WAS a flood 4000 years ago, that doesn't mean Noah, or a god had anything to do with it. Maybe it's just the Earth's way of "renewing" itself, the Earth's lifecycle, much like the way a plant grows into something beautiful, it will die. But, before it does it drops seeds into the ground to renew itself.

Answer 9

The Sahara is 4000 years old. We have evidence of this. It's a coincidence.

The thing about the coral reef, on the other hand, is simply false.

Answer 10

"Mainstream geologists conclude that no such flood is seen in the preserved rock layers and moreover that the flood itself represents a physical impossibility. For instance, since Mount Everest is approximately 8.8 kilometre in elevation and the Earth's surface is 510,065,600 km², to cover Mount Everest to the depth of 15 cubits (6.8 meters) as indicated by Genesis 7:20 would require 4.6 billion cubic kilometres of water. The Earth's atmosphere, however, only has the capacity to store water in vapor form sufficient to blanket the globe to a depth of 25 millimeters. Nevertheless, there continue to be many creationists who argue that the flood can explain the fossil record and the evidence from geology and paleontology that are often used to dispute creationists' claims. In addition to the above ideas that are in opposition to the principles of geology, advocates of flood geology reject uniformitarianism and the findings of radiometric dating."

Sorry, bud.