Noah would get credit for discovering America instead of the vikings or Columbus. Noah could take credit for discovering the pacific ocean prior to Balboa in 1513.
Would they teach this "new" history in Kansas ? (for starters.)
2006-12-30 04:33:12 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually I think the original version was The Epic of Gilgamesh.
2006-12-30 04:37:51 · update #1
Pangea was a single land mass 225 million years ago doesn't that predate Noah by millions of years?
2006-12-30 04:46:11 · update #2
Did God instantaneously "Poof" the animals in front of Noah or did a tree sloth swim from Brazil land in Africa and crawl to the middle east?
2006-12-30 04:51:10 · update #3
The flood was a localized flood in the general area of the Mediterranean, so there were no indigenous North American animals there. The whole flood story is one which is found in every culture - for the Sumerians it was the Epic of Gilgamesh which most closely rivals the Noah story. Its more of a morality tale than an actual world-wide cataclysmic event.
2006-12-30 05:34:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The physical features of the earth were far different before and after the Flood.
Who says that there was a Pacific or Atlantic ocean before that amount of water came when, "all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights." Gen 7:11-12 (from New International Version).
It sounds like there was a great amount of water in the atmosphere, perhaps a complete greenhouse effect from the cloud/mist to sustain such creatures as the dinasaurs with vegetation.
When this fell and the "great deep" came up in the Flood the weight and movement of the water would have caused catastrophic changes in the topography of the earth.
2006-12-30 12:51:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where does it say that Noah brought the animals into the arc? I thought God did that. Yeah, I guess we should give God credit for "discovering" the Americas and Australia.
2006-12-30 12:43:08 · answer #3 · answered by Smiley 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You win the cigar.
If God could deliver all those animals to any place he wanted(as suggested here) ; why did he need that old man with his silly boat?
There seems to have been many elevated vacant lots where he could have stored them, and they could even have had plants to eat during those very humid 371 days.
With all that manure in one place,it would make fertile ground for growing new crops in a hurry.
2006-12-30 12:58:24 · answer #4 · answered by big j 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ever hear of Pangaea? The earth wasn't divided at the time of Noah.
The earth began to split after the flood began, when the "fountains of the great deep" (Genesis 7:11) burst forth. Much later, the earth was divided completely, at the time of Peleg (Genesis 10:25).
2006-12-30 12:36:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Bible is up for interpretation, using many metaphors…
Could the Ark (Arc) mean curve, as to be graded on the curve, as he chose his two best? Because it is illogical for one to think that you could get two of every species on one small boat.
2006-12-30 13:32:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They came to the Ark under direction of THE GOD.
They were not necessarily indigenous to those areas at that time...................land masses changed.
2006-12-30 12:36:28 · answer #7 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
At that time, the land was all one land mass. There were no individual continents yet.
2006-12-30 12:36:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Christians are good at making up explanations for anything. I wonder if they have their fingers crossed when they churn out their weird and wonderful fantasies.
2006-12-30 12:37:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Perhaps there was more than one Noah and more than one ark. There are many cultures that share this myth. You are only touting the biblical version.
2006-12-30 12:35:57 · answer #10 · answered by Rance D 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋