THE CPT: Ok, Noah's Ark? Really? That really happened? Isn't it more like a kid's tale for Sunday school?

Question

No way educated and grown adults believe it word for word.....do they?

Wow, so far, not looking so hot, too many people think it happened.

Since when did words on a page turn into 'absolute truth beyond a doubt'?

Answer 1

It's entirely possible that the flood was a local event and the ark was really a collection of small freight vessels tied together to save a herd of livestock from rain-swollen rivers.
This story sounds much more plausible than the catastrophic worldwide event we learned in bible school . A wooden ark of the dimensions stated in the Bible could not even be built today by teams of engineers let alone a single man and his sons especially given such a tight construction schedule.

Answer 2

I am not a Christian but there is a corresponding tale in our religion also about the Sage Manu and the Great Flood. I also found a verbatim reproduction of this tale in some Mesopotnium bricks. The tale thus has a pagan origin and Christianity just adopted it.The belief has gone to such an extent that years ago there had been a aerial expedition to locate the remains of Noah's Ark and a report that it was aerially observed that these were there in the Ural mountains of Russia. Apparently it was an opticalillusion since they could not locate it on the ground. The tale is perhaps the racial memory of some great local floods. Theoretically, even if the entire moisture in the atmosphere were to precipitate at the same time it would just flood the earth to the extent of drenching our feet- in fact only ankles.Local floods could however be tremendously destructive and as the world of some ancestral races was submerged in such a flood the primordial fear became a racial memory of the Great Flood. However, the world did survive and was almost like the submerged one the story of Noah was devised to explain it and believed.

Answer 3

Dear cpt

Theologians have debated your question for hundreds of years. There have even been church splits over the subject. I believe that the question you are asking really goes to the heart of how accurate are the first several chapters of the Bible.

Most of your answers have been only opinions without any proof. If a believer quotes from the Bible, others say "That's your opinion." Likewise if an unbeliever says he believes the contrary, he receives the same put down. Is there any scientific evidence that would either support or reject the fact of a worldwide flood?

We need to make an assumption. I realize that if a person makes a wrong assumption then the results will be incorrect. However I believe that what I am going to assume is not far from the mark. That assumption is that the flood was not just an overblown thunderstorm. If it occurred it was a worldwide catastrophe. Is there evidence of such an event? Let's look at some scientific facts that go along with the assumption.

First: The Ivory Isles. For several hundred almost all the ivory used in Europe came from these small islands. The ivory was so dense on the islands that tusks were sometimes heaped up to 10 feet high. Ivory traders only had to pick up the skulls of the elephants, or mastodons and break apart the tusks, load them on their boats and be off. The islands were uninhabited. Why? Because these islands are off the coast of northern Siberia. How did these huge numbers of elephants come to be so far north? A global flood could account for this.

Second: Alaska. Just north of Mt McKinley there is a huge animal graveyard. The number of animals is huge. This graveyard covers over 100 sq/miles and goes down over 130feet. In addition, human artifacts are also found there up to 100feet down. The animals in this graveyard met a very violent death. In many cases their bones are crushed and severed. There are also huge numbers of plants that are broken and splintered. The multitude of torn animals, splintered forests, and human habitation indicate a date not too many thousand years ago.

Three: Erratic Boulders. These are huge rocks that have been "cut" from their original location and carried to another location, sometimes hundreds of miles away. Most erratic have been moved from north to south. This is one of the prime evidences behind the theory of the "Ice Age". There is a problem; however, over 10% have been moved hundreds of miles north. This could not be done by ice but rather huge amounts of water.

Fourth: The Caves of England. I will not go into great detail here, but suffice it to say that there are caves in the British Isles that are stuffed with all sorts of animal bones. Here are some of them. Reindeer, bison, lion, lemmings, hyena, sheep, elephant, grizzly bear, mammoth, hippos, rhinos, crocodiles, and tortoises. These animals from all over the world have literally been rammed into these caves by a tremendous catastrophic force, that force was water. There are similar caves in Europe.

Fifth: Coal. The very existence of coal shows that the Earth went through a major catastrophe. To start, there is only one place on Earth where coal is being formed right now. That place is at the bottom of Spirit Lake beside Mt. St. Helen's.
Coal is the compression of vegetation into a rock like form. It takes between 50 - 100 ft of vegetation to produce a single foot of coal. In West Virginia and Nova Scotia there are some coal seams that are over 50-ft thick and covering very large areas. This means that vegetation up to a mile high was needed to make those seams. The standard answer about the formation of coal is that it took millions of years to form. However there is a problem with this theory. There are hundreds of trees that are 50-ft tall standing upright in these seams. This means that all the vegetation had to be brought together and then formed into coal in a very, very short time. In addition from time to time human artifacts are found in the coal.
The indication here is that coal seams were laid down by a catastrophe recently.

I hope that this has been informative.

I also hope that you understand why I believe that there was a “Worldwide Flood/Catastrophe” at Noah’s time.

Thanks for your time

Ask more questions like this, and I will try to answer

All the best

Bryan

Answer 4

You should really do research before you start talking about what educated adults should believe...Here is a bit of information try and let it sink in and there is further info at

www.christcenteredmall.com/noahs-ark-page

And to let you know these are just not words on a page as you refer to the bible this is actually an account of what people saw and it still stands today and if you further check even scientists noted this was not man-made (place where the ark had been)...so tell me sherlock how much homework did you do on your side about opposing the fact that Noahs Ark existed....

While routinely examining aerial photos of his country, a Turkish army captain suddenly gasped at the picture shown above. There, on a mountain 20 miles south of Mt. Ararat, the biblical landfall of Noah's Ark, was a boat-shaped form about 500 feet long. The captain passed on the word. Soon an expedition including American scientists set out for the site.

At 7,000 feet, in the midst of crevasses and landslide debris, the explorers found a clear, grassy area shaped like a ship and rimmed with steep, packed-earth sides. Its dimensions are close to those given in Genesis: "The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits, the breadth of it 50 cubits, and the height of it 30 cubits"; that is, 450 x 75 x 45 feet. A quick two-day survey revealed no sign that the object was man-made. Yet a scientist in the group said, "Nothing in nature could create such a symmetrical shape. A thorough excavation may be made in another year to solve the mystery."

While in a library in Hawaii, Ron Wyatt began to read everything he could get his hands on concerning Noah's ark. As Ron pondered all the information over in his mind, there was one thing that seemed to be obvious to him: He knew that Moses had been the author of the Genesis account and therefore the flood story - and as such, Ron believed that the cubit Moses would have known would have been the Royal Egyptian Cubit, the most universal standard of measurement in the ancient world at that time.

There was no "Hebrew cubit" in existence during Moses' time, and to Ron, the 500 foot measurement given in the "Life" article was even more compelling evidence that the site needed thorough exploration. After all, 300 Royal Egyptian Cubits equals 515 feet, not the 450 feet commonly accepted (and based on the future Hebrew cubit).

Answer 5

I could probably think of a hundred things that are ridiculous about that story. Seriously, some of those fairy tales that you read in books when you're a kid are more believable than Noah's Ark.

Answer 6

There are very few things in this world than can be 100% verified. The truth depends on each person's interpretation. The best we can do is take the message and use it to better our life and the world we live in.

Answer 7

Sadly, yes. I mean come on! The magical fairy gathered up all the animals and stuck em on a boat for 6 weeks. Then they landed on a mountain. And ran off to populate the world. F-A-I-R-Y-T-A-L-E!

Answer 8

That is almost as ridiculous as believing that a big bang came out of nothing and created everything. Even though there was nothing there to create this so called bang. Or that a one celled organism can change into a human. <><

Answer 9

I asked a question once. How many Christians believe in Noah's Ark? I got back 18 answers, all from Christians, all believing in Noah's Ark. It was the scariest moment on Yahoo Answers for me, and one of the scariest moments of my life. Sometimes I'm ashamed to be a member of this species. I couldn't even pick a "best answer," so I deleted the question.

Answer 10

Read Genesis 5 thru 8.