Noah's Flood?

Question

In 1998, Bob Ballard - the discoverer of the Titanic's remains announced that the Black Sea had once been a 'freshwater' lake and that roughly 7000 BC, the earth holding back the Mediterranean Sea (thru the Bosphorus Sraits) collapsed, resulting in massive flooding that the ancients embellished into 'Flood' myths. This week, scientests announced that roughly 4800 years ago, a large meteor (s) crashed into the Indian Ocean that resulted in a 600 foot tidal wave that hit Madagascar and by extrapolation, all around the Indian Ocean. Wouldn't you agree that modren Science can now explain the reason why so many peoples from those area's had 'flood' myths?

Answer 1

i would answer your question but i have a strange urge to call senators go with the flood thing

Answer 2

First of all, if there was a flood it was not worldwide as we know the world today. People living in that region (the Middle East) had a very limited view of what constituted the "world". Only in the last 500 or so years have humans discovered the true nature of the Earth. So a "Great Flood" that engulfed the Mediterranean area or the Indian Ocean region would indeed have seemed like it was covering the whole world. There is no direct evidence that a flood covered the entire Earth.

Answer 3

Are you people just plain blind? Think of this, 70% of the world is already 'flooded'. The flood 'myths' you speak of don't just have the common "world was flooded" story in them. They also have things like, One family, Big Boat, Two of every kind were saved etc.... The similarity is not just coincidence, it is becuse there really was a Global Flood. Someone mentioned a sedimentary layer that proves it, not really. All of them do, if you have that much water moving that much dirt and rock, the light stuff goes to the top, heavier stuff to the bottom, that's why you see things look consistent through the sedimentary layers.

I know it would be a hard job for evolutionists to tell everyone that something that happened didn't, but it seems that reading posts that deal with anything Biblical or about how old the Earth-Universe is, they are doing a pretty good job. You have been deceived, and the Great Deceiver is Satan, who are you really following by believing in the concepts of Uniformitarianism and what it demands.

Answer 4

Another reason why flood myths are popular in cultures is because of where early civilizations formed. Tigres, Euphrates, Nile, Amazon. Around rivers. Rivers are great, they have fresh water, you can travel on them if you know how to make a boat, you can get food from them, they wash away waste. Great things. It was easier to start up next to a river than in the middle of a desert.

However, rivers flood, and a flood is a pretty impressive thing. That is one thing that would easily scare the wits out of early man. Plus, it happened on a regular basis. So flooding waters would have been something to fear. It makes sense if they are working up a scary story about what kind of destruction their god(s) can do, then a super flood taller than the mountain would do the trick.

Also, floods as a creation story work as well. These same civilizations probably benefited from a flood once, the waters receded. I remember that the Nile brought nutrients to the Egpytian farmlands and that the Egyptians needed that. If the flood could bring something as beneficial as better soil, then a super flood could have started the entire world.

The people who told these stories did not think they were lying and they were not doing it to be mean. They were trying to explain their world as best as they could using what they saw around them as examples.

Also, using the argument that "almost all early civilizations talk of a great flood" to prove that a great flood engulfed the world is not the best. Almost all early civilizations also talk of werewolves, vampires, or dragons.

Answer 5

It's not about "modern science can now explain...", that has always been the goal of science, which is why theories can be replaced with other theories that better explain the facts. The question is in the pseudo-science reliance on explanations that cannot be altered due to religious texts or mythological beliefs. Science does not accept "theories" that cannot be proved or disproved with experiments. As long as these people advance these ideas, science will continue to ridicule their proponents.

Answer 6

First of all, you have to accept it as truth, the flood really happened, because it has been proved by a sediment layer found all over the world at the same time period. Then you can lay to rest the idea that it is a myth. Then you can put your intellect to some good use by looking for a cure for ignorance, or cancer, or birth defects.

Answer 7

Can offer possible explanations, yes. Don't gild the lily.