There was never a great flood; alternatively the story is doctored to look plausible, but full of?

Question

contradictions.. It's radiculous that Noah lived for over 600yrs.
Verse after immediate verse contradict each other about "life-span" of the flood to the extent that the story end up not making sense at all. If this was a prelude to the big salvation day (crucifixion) then it's not impressive at all. So, it's no surprise that the big is so controversial.

Check these direct quotes from the bible (All from Genesis) -
7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
7:17 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth;
7:24 - And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
8:3 - And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.


NB: Don't tell me to read the bible - make clear biblical quotes about Noah's ark and the flood

Answer 1

Either you believe in miracles or you don't. What is the point of arguing about it?

Answer 2

If you look around, there is much evidence for a great flood.
Creation evidences museum in Glenn Rose Texas has found a fossilized human footprint in a dinosaur footprint, strong evidence that they lived at the same time. Dr. Baugh explains that before the flood there was more oxygen in the atmosphere, and more air pressure. Therefore the environment was much more conducive to life both of men and of Dinosaurs. If you refuse to accept the truth, don't pretend that you really want the truth. Hang out with other worshipers of evolutionism.

Answer 3

Here is what is says:
Gen 7:11- 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

SO it rained 40 days and 40 nights.

3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
The waters started to go down after 150 days-what is hard for your to understand? Not contradictory at all to me.
Geologists have shown there was a world wide flood!
One of the most fascinating scientific discoveries in recent times regarding a universal flood came from some scientists who were not searching for any evidence of the Flood. It came from oceanographers in the Gulf of Mexico who were doing some rather routine research on coral and sediments of the ocean floor.

Their two oceanographic vessels had pulled from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico several long, slender core samples of the sediment, which includes the fossil shells of one-celled plankton called foraminifera. While still alive, these organisms lock into their shells a chemical record of the temperature and salinity of the water. When they reproduce, the shells fall away and drop to the bottom. A cross-section of that ocean bed carries a record of climates that the oceanographers say go back more than 100 million years.

The cores were analyzed in two different investigations-by Cesar Emiliani of the University of Miami, and by James Kennett of the University of Rhode Island and Nicholas Shack of Cambridge University. Both analyses pointed to a dramatic drop in the salinity of the water providing compelling evidence of a vast flood of fresh water into the Gulf of Mexico thousands of years ago.

Cesar Emiliani explains the results: "A huge amount of ice-melt water rushed into the Gulf of Mexico and produced a sea-level rise that spread around the world with the speed of a tidal wave." He adds, "We know this because the oxygen isotope ratios of the foraminifera shells show a marked temporary decrease in the salinity of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It clearly shows that there was a major period of flooding from 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, with a peak about 11,600 years ago. There is no question that there was a flood and there is also no question that it was a universal flood" ("Noah, the Flood, the Facts," Readers Digest, U.S. edition, September 1977, p. 133).

It is also worth mentioning that the radiocarbon dating used to establish the number of years is imprecise after 4,000 years, so the time of this universal deluge could be closer to the 4,300 years described in the Bible as the time of the biblical Flood.

Another recent discovery that could have a relation to the inundation of the Gulf of Mexico is the finding by geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman of the sudden flooding of the Black Sea basin around 6,000 to 7,000 years ago (according to their dating). "The salt water," says Smithsonian magazine, "poured through the deepening channel, creating a waterfall 200 times the volume of Niagara Falls. In a single day enough water came through the channel to cover Manhattan to a depth two times the height of the [former] World Trade Center, and the roar of the cascading water would have been audible at least 100 miles away" ("Evidence for a Flood," April 2000, electronic version).

An additional evidence of the Deluge being global and not local is the literally thousands of flood stories from around the world. One enterprising historian, Dr. Aaron Smith of the University of Greensboro, North Carolina, became obsessed with classifying all the flood accounts. "As a result of years of labor, he has collected a complete history of the literature on Noah's Ark. There are 80,000 works in seventy-two languages about the Flood, of which 70,000 mention the legendary wreckage of the Ark" (Werner Keller, The Bible as History, 1980, p. 38).

It is hard to believe that if the Flood were only a local event, there would be 80,000 different accounts of it from around the world that describe it as universal in scope.

Answer 4

My interpretation of the Flood scriptures is that it RAINED for 40 days, but the water stayed on the Earth (untill it dissipated, evaporated, whatever) for 150 days. I t would obviously take longer for the water to recede than it did for the water to get there.

Answer 5

The flood can be proven by geologists... The earth's surface shows it.

Answer 6

I don't see any problems.