Do you believe that a global flood occured thousands of years ago?

Question

If not, how can you reject this obvious truth?

Answer 1

There is NO EVIDENCE for a single, global flood occurring a few thousand years ago that covered all the mountains of the world. Get over it.
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Answer 2

If you can tell me why this is so obvious, i might change my mind, but so far scientific evidence doesn't give any clues for a global flood even millions of years ago. There have been a lot of other great floods after the end of last ice age (eg. the Mediterranean and the Black sea) that could have led to this myth, but nothing like the globe completely covered. The world of the people of those days was a lot smaller than ours nowadays with our fast ships, airplanes and cars, tv's, satellites and cell phones.
This is an example of some research on a Black-sea flood after the last ice age: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/

Answer 3

OK I have a serious problem with all sides stating beliefs as facts. People of different beliefs would get along swimmingly if we could all be respectful of each others beliefs and start statements with "I believe" or "I was taught to believe" or something of that nature. Why we get statement such as "Catholics are dumb" or "Scientology is gay" or "Atheists are idiots" I dunno why you are only pointing out that you are ignorant.

What is an obvious truth to you is not an obvious truth to everyone else.

To answer your question. There is a scientific belief that the earth does cleanse itself every so often. There are many different theories on how the earth does this. Flooding and freezing is one theory. However the so called proof that the catholic Church says proves that the earth did flood over is sea fossils in high mountain ranges. The problem is that these fossils are carbon dated over 2.5 million years ago or something like that and that contradicts the bibles age of earth. So the church says carbon dating is off to end the questioning on how could the bible be wrong concerning the age of earth.

Same as how they try to pick apart Darwin's theory of evolution but that is another ball of wax all together.

Answer 4

I will try to avoid the religious aspect of this as much as possible and come from the angle that I am an ancient history major going for masters student.

Supposedly 4000 B.C. (B.C.E. if you want to whine) was around the time of the "great flood". That being said, the only known and recorded humans at that time that had written language were all Mediterranean cultures (in the bronze age) and therefore living all around the Mediterranean, Agean, Black, and Dead seas. Plato described an ancient island (pop-culture called it Atlantis) in the middle of the agean that was a great trade-power. It also sat on one of the largest volcanos known to man. When it erupted (the Thera eruption) it was predicted by some paleogeologists that it had the power of thousands of nuclear weapons. It naturally destroyed the island and was so big that the ashfall has been found in modern day Sweden, and that the thousands of islands near Greece in the Agean were actually Lava drops from this explosion. It naturally displaced so much water that everywhere within hundreds of miles of the Mediterranean were flooded. Since that was the only known world at the time, it makes sense that this was God's "Great" world covering flood. Yes, some south American cultures do have flood stories, but they are not connected, not at the same period in history, and are easily seen from the lengthy flood patterns of the Amazon. Sorry it was so long, but as an adamant student of ancient history, I feel obligated to give you the answer you deserve.

Answer 5

First of all, it is not obvious. That's an exageration,please! It has been demonstrated that the Black Sea flooded the areas around it, with the melting at the end of the Ice Age.
National Geographic has a nice article about it, well documented.
As far as global biblical flood, that is the biblical twisted version of this phenomenon.
If you really believe the Bible, you can't believe history.

Answer 6

millions yes, thousands, no. remember, a day is like a thousand years to God, and a thousand years is like a day. before sin there was no death, and before death there was no time. The earth is much older than a few thousand years.

as for those of you who say "it had to cover everest" heve you ever considered with all your scientific evidence that mount everest was NOT that tall back when the flood would have occurred? therefore, that theory is WACK!!!!

all over the world there are stories about floods wiping out their regions, all their regions.

oh, and to that idiot who said that you wouldn't find land in 40 days in nights with all that water, DUH!!!! if you read the bible before you started argueing about it, you would know that they were in the ark for A YEAR before they got out and made a sacrifice to God. (gen. 7) "12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. 24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days."
(gen. 8) "3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. "

you'll notice that the floods started in the second month, and end in the second month, making a year. A year is sufficient time to dry the entire earth.

Answer 7

No, because it's impossible. The flood that is written about in the Bible is the same flood that occurred on the Euphrates River and was mentioned in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

As for the fossil argument, ever hear of plate tectonics?

Answer 8

I believe all of the stories in Genesis 1-11 in every detail, but I also think we have rendered a poor translation in some cases.

When I compare the flood stories in the Bible (there are two of them woven together) with Sumerian legends, it seems more likely that the Genesis flood was a local phenomenon. This is also consistent with what I've found studying the stories in my limited Hebrew. It's very possible to translate (literally) a different story than the one we're given by changing the rendering of only two words: "ha-eretz" (meaning the land or the world) and "ararat" (meaning Mt. Ararat or "har-aratta"--the mountains of aratta, Iran).

We need more information to have historical certainty, but what we have is enough to believe the story of Genesis at least as a local flood, especially considering that at least two such events appear in documented Sumerian history.

Answer 9

No, I think there were floods and other natural disasters throughout pre-historic times that people in the area considered "the whole world" (all that they knew was there!). They were later writed down as a global flood.

Answer 10

yes and proof of this flood has been found all around the world.
there are two points on earth that anyone can see that show this one is the Niagara escarpment the other is the grand cannon.
i suggest you look into this as it is an excepted fact now