So if the entire world was flooded with rain which is fresh water, it would have mixed in with the sea water and altered the salinity levels of the sea water. Why didn't the sea life die? changes in salinity levels kill fish.
2007-03-12 11:55:27 · 21 answers · asked by Jason Bourne 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"The Fact that there was a earth wide flood is geological history. Do more research."
No. Just no. Thats not fact. There were a series of local floods, but no global flood. Do your research.
2007-03-12 11:59:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
There is nothing in the Bible that says it was fresh water in fact, it could have easily been salt water, when God was creating the world, somewhere it says He seperated the waters from the waters. If so, and He wasn't telking about clouds, where did the other water go? My Bible teacher belives that it was put there for the flood. It had a specific purpose, all sorts of things put evidence towards it. A layer of water would have added extra protection from the sun, so skin cancer risks would have been less. Did you ever notice that after the flood (presumably, the extra water was gone) that the lifetimes of the people got shorter, they lived a lot less time than previous ancestors. It just makes sense. AND if before God seperated the water they were all together and then He seperated it, all of the water could have been salt water and when He seperated the water He gathered some freshwater together and the salt waters together...wait a minute, who says the fish didn't die? They easily could have. ALL the animals and things died, what would exempt fish and sea life?
2007-03-12 19:04:37 · answer #2 · answered by JesusLovesMe! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
are you kidding? there is historical evidence that proves there was a great flood. all lead scholars agree upon this.
1) Every culture on earth has stories about a "flood" of some kind, with one man and his family being saved by a boat or raft (even Eskimos). Many are several thousand years old or more, some dating back to the time of the fertile cresent.
2) In every corner of the planet you can find, scattered here and there, a layer of strata that can only be fine mud or silt (even found under the Antarctica ice sheet). It contains the same types of elements all over the world and it represents the dividing line between the age of the dinosaurs and the age of mammals. Scientists all over the world recognize this layer, but disagree on what caused it. Forty days and nights of standing muddy water?
3) The earth is crissed crossed with ancient river beds, some over ten miles wide. Where did they come from? Where did they go? Near Vernal Utah you can stand and look at one such ancient river bed. It stands near vertical due to upheavel in the earths crust and contains virtually every species of animal, including dinosaurs and fossilized palm trees and wood, fish, turtles, birds, etc. How did they all die and get deposited together in one huge sand bar? Receeding flood waters?
2007-03-12 19:02:01 · answer #3 · answered by Kenneth H 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One answer I've heard several times is that God kept the sea creatures alive during the flood, after all he is God, you know. Of course that begs the question, why was the ark needed at all? Why didn't God just miraculously keep all the animals he wanted to save alive. And for that matter, why bother with a flood at all. He's God. He could have killed everyone on the planet, save Noah and his family, with a single spoken word.
2007-03-12 19:06:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the other animals, except for the paired (and some came in sevens, actually) animals on the ark, died. Fish included, most likely.
I believe in the Bible, but personally, I think the flood didn't actually occur and was metaphorical. It's symbolic for baptism. (purifying someone after they've accepted Christ, and the flood purified the Earth)
2007-03-12 19:01:23 · answer #5 · answered by Jay 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw a show on Discovery and a scientist stated that if the whole planet was covered in water, there would have been so much moisture in the air that any living human or animal, including those on the ark, would have drowned even out of the water.
2007-03-12 19:01:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Remember, when the bible is written the Earth is still flat and there is an end of the world (pretty much out there the furthest we can see). So, to flood the world is to flood the world as they knew it ... not really the whole earth.
2007-03-12 19:02:23 · answer #7 · answered by Terri 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is God and he will always be..he has the power to do anything.. he didn't want to harm the sea creatures that's why he send out the flood..
2007-03-12 19:34:27 · answer #8 · answered by sweetooth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another good viewpoint! I just asked a question about the tale of the Ark a few seconds ago. It's here somewhere on the R&S forum...
2007-03-12 19:00:21 · answer #9 · answered by Rapunzel XVIII 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all, again, your comparing evironment of today to the environment of the past. That is your first mistake. (I don't know HOW MANY times I've said that...)
"The rain, which ordinarily descends in drops, then came down in streams, or spouts, as they call them in the Indies, where clouds have been often known to burst, as they express it there, when the rain descends in a much more violent torrent than we have seen in the greatest shower."-M.H. Commentary
2007-03-12 19:06:53 · answer #10 · answered by Da Mick 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋