Noah's flood?

Question

When God judged the world and sent the flood in Noah's time, which part of the earth flooded. Someone said only mesapotamia, but that would prove nothing, God dislayed His almight in judging the entire world. what do the educated think

Answer 1

To destroy all animals, the whole world would have had to been flooded.

Answer 2

Well let us view just a few comments on that by the geologists and scientist themselves-

Note please the enormity of water that still exists, from Jehovah God's needed action.

*** gm chap. 8 p. 111 par. 30 Science: Has It Proved the Bible Wrong? ***

The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “The average depth of all the seas has been estimated at 3,790 metres (12,430 feet), a figure considerably larger than that of the average elevation of the land above the sea level, which is 840 metres (2,760 feet). If the average depth is multiplied by its respective surface area, the volume of the World Ocean is 11 times the volume of the land above sea leve
l"The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 1987, Vol. 25, p. 124.

So, if everything were leveled out—if the mountains were flattened and the deep sea basins filled in—the sea would cover the whole earth to a depth of thousands of meters.

What happened to the floodwaters after the Flood? They must have drained into the sea basins. How? Scientists believe that the continents rest on huge plates. Movement of these plates can cause changes in the level of the earth’s surface. In some places today, there are great underwater abysses more than six miles [more than 10 km] deep at the plate boundaries".
(The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 1987, Vol. 9, p. 505.)

-It is quite likely that—perhaps triggered by the Flood itself—the plates moved, the sea bottom sank, and the great trenches opened, allowing the water to drain off the land.*
*The book Planet Earth—Glacier draws attention to the way water in the form of ice sheets depresses the surface of the earth. For example, it says: “If the Greenland ice were to disappear, the island would eventually rebound some 2,000 feet.”

--As for the theory of the ice age, (no conclusive proof in science has been brought forth--As is the case with the evolutionary theory). Please note what could very well been conconcted by the scientists themselves.

--TRACES OF THE FLOOD?
If we grant that a great flood could have happened, why have scientists found no trace of it? Perhaps they have, but they interpret the evidence some other way. For example, orthodox science teaches that the surface of the earth has been shaped in many places by powerful glaciers during a series of ice ages. But apparent evidence of glacial activity can sometimes be the result of water action. Very likely, then, some of the evidence for the Flood is being misread as evidence of an ice age.

-Similar mistakes have been made. Concerning the time when scientists were developing their theory of ice ages, we read: “They were finding ice ages at every stage of the geologic history, in keeping with the philosophy of uniformity. Careful reexamination of the evidence in recent years, however, has rejected many of these ice ages; formations once identified as glacial moraines have been reinterpreted as beds laid down by mudflows, submarine landslides and turbidity currents: avalanches of turbid water that carry silt, sand and gravel out over the deep-ocean floor.”18
(Scientific American, May 1960, p. 71.)

That the Flood did happen is seen in the fact that mankind never forgot it. All around the world, in locations as far apart as Alaska and the South Sea Islands, there are ancient stories about it. Native, pre-Columbian civilizations of America, as well as Aborigines of Australia, all have stories about the Flood. While some of the accounts differ in detail, the basic fact that the earth was flooded and only a few humans were saved in a man-made vessel comes through in nearly all versions. The only explanation for such a widespread acceptance is that the Flood was a historical event." Insight on the Scriptures" Vol . 1

Answer 3

I am trying very hard to figure out this flood thing. They say that the whole entire earth flooded. I have even heard that the flood is why Pangea broke up.

Answer 4

I think it was probably the entire world

but that is irrelevant in the light of the message God tried to convey with the flood.

Answer 5

The Mayans knew the world flooded and they were in South America.
Most history that goes back that far documents it, the great pyramid has salt deposits in it from the ocean water covering it.

Answer 6

God flooded the entire earth. He didn't only flood mesapotamia.

Answer 7

5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 (Genesis 6, KJV)

The Bible says "the face of the earth", as in everything.

Not that I believe in this, it's just good to go to the source that is most often used.

Answer 8

I imagine there probably was a large flood in the area of Iraq at one time. The primitive people living there assumed that the whole world was flooded, as they didn't know any better.

And no matter how ridiculous and impossible that idea is... there are still people to this day that actually believe it.

Answer 9

Does it matter? There story is there so we'll understand God's character, not to give us a history lesson.

Answer 10

The entire eath. The land may have all been conected then?