Question about a universal flood?

Question

Who believe that there was a universal flood about 4400 years ago. The one where Noah build a arc and he and his family got saved. I heard someone say that if it was true, then evolution coulnt have taken place. What is your thoughts about this universal flood

Answer 1

Well, you're right, evolution could not have occurred if there was a flood (actually, it could have, but it would not have recovered in the 4400 years since - per your date). While stories of floods occur in several different scriptures and mythologies, there is no physical evidence of a universal flood, and I doubt that it did occur. Personally, I'll stick with evolution rather than believe that someone managed to get a virtual zoo of animals from around the world aboard a single ship.

Answer 2

I grew up in church learning such things about a universal flood....and many scientists beleive that such a flood did, in fact, take place, leaving many oceanic fossils in places that now are nowhere near an ocean, to the contrary, quite landlocked. ( e.g. the mountains of northern new mexico contain fossils of corral reefs and barnacles.) Usualy, if you beleive in Noah and the Ark, then you discredit evolution, so the two never mix, and there is no problem there so far as the church is concerned. If, in fact, there was one single cell organism, and blah-blah-blah, then, yes, there are problems thrown in by the flood. A less known theory that is steadily emerging is the creationist/evolutionist theory. Some call it having your cake and eating it too, and some call it the best of both worlds, which, in essential, it is. Long story short, it takes the theory of an intelligent design, (God creating the species as told in Genesis) and combines it with the undeniable ability we, as creatures, have to adapt, sometimes at an amazing rate, to our surroundings ( the Origin of Species minus the big bang). If this took place, then some "creator", you can call him/her/it whatever you like, would have created the basic form of all life forms we know today, man/monkey, carnivores, equines, bovines, felines, cannis, aquatics, etc., and then we each evolved from there, giving us such things as amphibians, and all the in-betweens that are so hard to explain. This, in essential would have made the flood scientifically possible, and would have even agreed with evolution, in as much as the two-by-two's of all different animals was the ultimate in natural selection, only the best male and female from each group would be on the big cruise. Hope this helps, You can email me if you want to talk on the theory some more!!! good luck!!!

Answer 3

There was no universal flood. There is simply not enough water available. Even if all of the world's ice melted the resulting rise in sea levels would cover naught but the lowest of hills. That's not to mention the logical inconsistencies in the Biblical account of the story.

Answer 4

All major religions and traditions of different customs all around the world teach of a similar flood taking place. How else would this idea spread accross the remote world. There is also physical prrof of this flood as well: tectonic plates shifting, the change of continent mass and placement, the transfer of animals and plants from distant parts of the world, etc.

Answer 5

There is evidence for large regional flood in a lot of places but no universal one.

People who had limited knowledge of the world would see a large flood as global - after all it would encompass their known world.

Think of things like the tsunami or New Orleans after Katrina - if there was not modern communication and technology. How are you to know the expanse of the devastation? You are just trying to survive.

Answer 6

This communicate, with the exception of the video on hydro-static plate tectonics is woefully lacking in evidentiary issues. If this were a severe communicate truly than a cleansing soap field i'd be happy to initiate laying out the reason why a international flood is truly properly supported contained in the geological and fossil record. once you're truly fascinated, circumvent the outcomes right here and initiate doing a serous quantity of analyze into the observable information. this may blow your ideas and explode the quasi-medical fantasy of dad-technology.

Answer 7

There is absolutely ZERO evidence of a worldwide flood. Sure, there is evidence of local flooding, but no evidence of a WORLDWIDE flood. Furthermore, scientists have done the calulations. There is not enough Oxygen in earth's atmosphere to combine with hydrogen to make enough water to completely cover the earth's surface to a height above 25K feet (tallest mountain peaks). So, no flood.

Answer 8

And how many fish fossils do you find up on mountain tops-none. So there was no universal flood. There isn't enough water on earth and in the atmosphere to cover anywhere near the entire land mass of the planet but religious nutters don't allow facts like that to ruin their fantasies. I find it slightly sinister that some people believe it was a reality.

Answer 9

The evidence of a flood that covered the tops of the mountains, is still receeding, at a phenominal rate now, at the north pole. See Ice (frozen water) Ages.

Answer 10

If the Bible says it happened then it happened. All scientific evidence supports the universal flood theory too. The Grand Canyon, the polar ice caps, fossil record, etc.

There is more evidence to support a global flood than there is for global warming.