People only knew about their specific part of the world, so when they had a bout bad flooding...in their view the "whole world" flooded.
Someone had a big boat. They, and maybe even others in their community, took some of their livestock aboard in order to preserve their livelihood and survival.
2007-03-17 17:34:22 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, because there is pretty good geological evidence of a major Earth-wide flood event.
2007-03-17 17:37:26 · answer #1 · answered by wigginsray 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Your storyline seems more likely. There is NO geological evidence of a world wide flood. For example:
Ice cores from Greenland have been dated back more than 40,000 years by counting annual layers. [Johnsen et al, 1992,; Alley et al, 1993] A worldwide flood would be expected to leave a layer of sediments, noticeable changes in salinity and oxygen isotope ratios, fractures from buoyancy and thermal stresses, a hiatus in trapped air bubbles, and probably other evidence. Why doesn't such evidence show up?
How are the polar ice caps even possible? Such a mass of water as the Flood would have provided sufficient buoyancy to float the polar caps off their beds and break them up. They wouldn't regrow quickly. In fact, the Greenland ice cap would not regrow under modern (last 10 ky) climatic conditions.
Why did the Flood not leave traces on the sea floors? A year long flood should be recognizable in sea bottom cores by (1) an uncharacteristic amount of terrestrial detritus, (2) different grain size distributions in the sediment, (3) a shift in oxygen isotope ratios (rain has a different isotopic composition from seawater), (4) a massive extinction, and (n) other characters. Why do none of these show up?
Obviously, there was no great flood. And just because there are "stories" of the flood in different cultures doesn't mean it happened. There are dragon stories in many cultures as well, and there are no dragons.
It's just a story, and a pretty lame one at that.
2007-03-18 00:57:03 · answer #2 · answered by atheist jesus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some believers have convinced themselves that it was just a localized event. They forget that it supposedly took a year for the water to recede.
At most there was a natural flood with a tragic loss of life, and that is where the story of The Great Flood parts ways with reality.
2007-03-18 00:58:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anthony Stark 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is some evidence of the Black Sea coming into being about twelve thousand years ago during the end of the last Ice Age so Noah's flood could be the collective oral tradition of that ancient memory
2007-03-18 01:09:47 · answer #4 · answered by Judas. S. Burroughs. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your close. It was more like this. Their was a local flood and the people who witnessed it exagerrated the story and over time more and more elements were added to it. By the time it was written down it was an extremrly pimped out version of the origional story. Think of it this way origional story=a house cat final story= house cat has been turned into tiger
2007-03-18 00:43:08 · answer #5 · answered by Harry P. Ness 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I like your use of the word stoyline because it was 1 chapter in the best selling work of fiction of all time
2007-03-18 00:47:52 · answer #6 · answered by shaun 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry--not true. Almost every religion, and culture speaks about the great flood.
2007-03-18 00:42:53 · answer #7 · answered by MilkWeed 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually many civilizations have stories of a great flood.
2007-03-18 00:38:14 · answer #8 · answered by scruff 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ya, the world was a much smaller place back then.
2007-03-18 00:40:10 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think so, however i dont think its true, people always say its because of god, he says the bibles real, but we have not proof of god.
2007-03-18 00:41:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋