How did God Produce Enough H2O To Flood the Planet Except for Noahs Ark?

Question

It is obscene to think that water levels could ever have risen above the world's highest mountain top and then gone back down again. Also, why did everybody deserve it then but never since then ? And how did he get the animals to keep from eating each other ? And why did diseases not die out then ? And how do you account for the minor differences between closely related species ? And how come all the world's plants did not go extinct under salt poisoning ? And why does God never intervene in wars? I think the author of that supposedly factual account has a lot to answer for.

Answer 1

Two theories:

1) It was a local flood--this WAS as much as those who lived there knew
2) It did encompass the earth

One theory is that the mid oceanic ridge in the Atlantic ocean spewed forth with water and lava. This could hold true because scientists can find no reason for the MAR to be there!

Related proof: There was a sediment sample taken from Mt. Everest at the very top match sediment along the MAR.

Now for the questions:
1) Why did everybody deserve it? Sin. Sin sin sin!
2) Why not since then? While we are sinful, we have yet to hit the magnitude of our forefathers.
3) How did the animals stop from eating either other? Either divine intervention or each animal had a different stall.
4) Why did diseases not die out? This supports more localized flooding.
5) Minor differences between species: Microevolution
6) World's plants didn't go extent: once again, support of localized flooding.
7) Why doesn't God intervene in wars: why should he? Who would win? This supports the cause that it's not ONE nation under God.

An interesting take: the flood story can be seen in many different religions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah's_Ark

Answer 2

This is actually seven questions, but I'll just address the main one.

1. There was a vapor canopy that collapsed(google 'Meissner Effect", how supercooled ice can suspend in a magnetic field)

2. The 'fountains of the deep opened up. There's water under the earth, in case you dint know, and the earth is huge.

3. The mountains formed afterwards, due to the pressure of the water collapsing the plates.

If you flattened the earth like Kansas, there's enough surface water to cover it three feet deep. The flood was perfectly likely if there were no high mountains at the time.

You make the assumption everyone makes, that the earth now is the same as it was pre-Flood. Uniformitariansim.

Lastly, you know all those fossils people cite as proof we evolved? All fossils prove is something DIED. You have no evidence it had kids that lived. Not only that, fossils have been found of animals in the midst of giving birth. Fossilization happens FAST. But no one wants you to see this evidence, cuz it would destroy the theory.

But, the bible says such attitudes would be evidence of the end days. You ask why did they deserve it then? Same reason they do now, but God promised never to flood the world again in Gen 8. Next time he'll judge it by fire, i.e. nuclear war. Due any day now, if you're watching the news.

Keep mocking though.

Answer 3

Tawaen is correct! The earliest of the flood stories comes from a Sumerian saga about a semi god named Gilgamesh. He loses a close friend to death and goes on an Odyssey to find the fruit of immortality. He encounters a man named Utnapishtim who was given immortality as a reward for doing the Noah drag: animals two by two, doves, leaves his ark on a mountain top, the whole thing that that Hebes lifted and incorporated in the mytho-historical compendium we call the Old Testament.

There is a book, old as dirt, by a weirdo named Ashenski, entitled "Worlds in Collision," in which the author make a case for the authenticity of the flood story. He finds similar stories everywhere even in precolombian South America, and argues it was all caused by a comet that became trapped in our orbit. He has been shredded over time, but it's an interesting read, and there are people who still argue his position.

Answer 4

Pretty much every ancient culture alive at that time has a flood story. So we know at some point back then, there was a flood. I think a lot of the Bible is just the Christian version of mythology so maybe there was a flood and whoever wrote it wrote their own version of it. It sounds a little crazy that this guy got two of every single species and saved everybody b/c there are too many species to fit on an ark, no matter how big you build it. Also it's genetically impossible to think that all the species today were inbred from the ones on the ark, because there has to be genetic differences in order for a species to survive. So there probably was a flood back then, but it probably wasn't of the great proportions described in the Bible.

Answer 5

You pose very good questions.

There was a firmament around the earth, which means there was a spanse of water that surrounded the earth... there was no water on earth in the form of an oceal like we have today. The earth was a different place with a mist on the earth to regulate temperature , there was no snow... and there was no salt water to kill plant life off... in fact the flood waters could have displaced seeds all over...
People lived to be many hundreds of years old in biblical times... something now scientist attribute to our magnetic poles today... they somehow agree that the magnetic poles were alot stronger then... and some scientist believed that God told Noah to get two of every kind of animal that belonged to the kingdom or class, not species.( in the classification of animals in biological terms)
( Don't quote me on which classification the scientists believe to be correct... )

There is more than one author of the bible... as I am sure you are aware, God doesn't intervene because He does not want to get in the way of our free will. Loving Him has to be a choice we make freely. We are not His robots to do His will, He wants to talk and fellowship with us, like He did with Adam and Eve, and forcing His will on us, is not God's Character. HE cannot go against Himself, or His word. It isn't in His nature and that is why He doesn't intervene in our wars. It is man's free will and judgment that causes the wars today, not Him. Although He gets blamed for it... He has nothing to do with the will of His people.They act on thier own... ( this happened in the bible as well...)

Jericho, was a place of great battle, and archological digs have proven that it was destroyed by fire, since there are scorch marks, and the fire was so hot, it actually melted the mud bricks that made up the walls. Science every day proves that the bible is historic fact, you just have to know where to look.

Answer 6

Once again you've got the christians speaking down to you - "are you stupid?" "Go back to sunday school" and so on. And yet all these learned folk have completely different answers to anything that is asked! Of course the flood and all other 'miracles' from the bible are nothing more than fabrications or exaggerations, interpreted in a million ways, all even less relevant than the original. The most annoying part is how these christians take the moral highground, and talk to us as though we are stupid for not believing and understanding their mythical nonsense.

Answer 7

The water is still there. During the Flood the mountains and valleys weren't where they are now. It says that the mountains rose up and the valleys sank down, and God placed a boundary for the waters of the Earth. The water is there, but God changed the landscape during the Flood causing the water to not cover the entire Earth.

If the Earth were flattened out, it would be covered in water to a depth of 1.7 miles.

As for why everyone then deserved to die but not now? There are a lot of ppl who deserve death, I'm sure, but God, for whatever reason, has decided to allow them to live.

I recommend this website for many of the answers to your flood questions

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/flood.asp

Also, the book "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study" by John Woodmorappe goes into further detail on these questions.

Answer 8

Well first you miss understand the flood of Noah.

The bible states it was a world flood but you have to realize in that time frame of time.....the world was really just the middle east area. The flood was only in that section of the world.

This is how plants and animals survived from other parts, this explains why there wasn't enough water to flood the entire earth and this explains why we find things on other continents in fossils, etc. Also explains why there isn't much plant life in that region as the salt water did kill it off from the flood. Its why most deserts are in that region.

God doesn't intervene in wars or what man does cause of a gift he gave man...." free will ". You have to understand earth is not heaven nor controlled by God. It is a place for souls to come and play in a way...to do as they wish...that is what free will is.

You need to go back to church or Sunday school and learn more....you have only about 5% of the facts and this is why it doesn't seem logical to you.

Just remember....knowledge is key, knowledge is power.

Answer 9

instead of thinking you know everything, why don't you actually take a bible CLASS. it will explain everything. Think, if God could CREATE the whole world from nothing, then why couldn't he do any of that stuff? and God needed to show that he was powerful against all sinners, and after that it never happened again b/c he made a promise...and KEEPS his promises. thats what a rainbow represents. also, everything happens for a reason...and how do you know he doesn't intervene in wars? he DOES. but only to keep in line with his plans for the world. also, if matter cannot spontaneously generate, then how is the big bang theory possible. there MUST be a God. I watched a TV show the other day that was talking about how it is not possible for a God not to exist, even einstein was smart enough to figure that out. In order for the big bang to have happened and not produced nothing but a black whole, here are the odds: 10 to the 10 to the 30th. that is so, so, so, so small a chance that its practically impossible. there are other indicators that god exists, too: there are indicators in physics, matter, and lots of other categories. i can't understand it all, im not a genious, but believe me: God exists. if you want to learn more, im not trying to peddle anything, but they sell the series. its called Finding God Through Faith and Reason. Its really good for a science extremist like you. i sincerely hope you find God. thanks.

Answer 10

There is not enough water on the Earth to flood all of the land on this planet, even if all of the ice caps melted the water level would only rise about 26 feet. Another story from the bible that needs a supernatural explanation to validate the story.