Could noah's flood have really happened?

Question

i mean, where could have all that water have gone? wouldn't the animals have ate each other on the ark?

Answer 1

Before the global Flood there was a canopy of water surrounding the earth. When Jehovah God brought about the Flood, the canopy came down and flooded the earth. It seems that before the Flood the mountains were more like hills and the oceans were shallow. Take a look at what Psalms 104:3-9 says, "The One building his upper chambers with beams in the very waters,making the clouds his chariot, Walking upon the wings of the wind, Making his angels spirits,His ministers a devouring fire. He has founded the earth upon its established places; It will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever. With a watery deep just like a garment you covered it. The waters were standing above the very mountains. At your rebuke they began to flee;
At the sound of your thunder they were sent running in panic—Mountains proceeded to ascend, Valley plains proceeded to descend—To the place that you have founded for them. A boundary you set, beyond which they should not pass,That they should not again cover the earth."
So apparently, Jehovah God caused the mountains to grow in height and the oceans to become deeper to accomodate the extra water, which of course is still with us on the earth today.

Answer 2

No the discovery channel had a nice show on the other day talking about it all. And how the story of Noah actually comes from an old Sumerian tale. About a man named Noah who saved his family from a village flood. And he was the king of the city and a businessman. They jumped on the boats he already had which of course had livestock in those days. And they think the boat floated out to sea. Because the story talks about how all they saw was water around them for like a month. But then they went back and met some angry people that wanted there money. And since Noah did not have it and feared his life they ran away to an island. And that was basically the end of the story. Too many people ask simple questions like how would all the animals fit and stuff. But not many people actually think about the geological impossibilities. If all the salt water and freshwater mixed. The earth would go into another ice age and it would be impossible to breathe.

Answer 3

If both polar caps were to melt as in global warming, a worldwide floor could occur and rupture the faults beneath the earth, move the plates under the earth, causing a division of continents. Look up also the Pangea theory.

There are several Books of scientific distinction that maybe of interest to you, that can adequately answer your question:
Raging Waters on DVD
The Geology Book By Dr John D. Morris
Noah's Ark: A Feasible Study by John Woodmorappe

Answer 4

There once was an article in Science magazine which indicated that there was a near apocalyptic event around 400,000 years ago. Scientists were doing studies into the human genome. The genome mutates over millions of years and we get evolution. What they discovered was that there were far fewer mutations then they had expected to find. They ascertained that something must have happened 400,000 years ago that nearly wiped out man (from millions to around 10,000, so we had to start all over again. It has also been discovered that Venus was orbiting to us closer then, and it's gravitational field would have had some impact on the earth's weather (much like the moon does).

Also great floods appear throughout other religions and in mythology.

Answer 5

More than likely, Noah did not go through a flooding of the whole earth but did go through a flooding of the area he lived in. He was a businessman who lived and sold supplies from the bank of the river. The animals that he had on hand where probably domestic and common to the area, part of the mechandise he sold. When the river did flood, Noah and his boat where more than likely carried down river and then out to sea where he no doubt could not see any land for some time. The whole story can be boiled down to a river flood victim who managed to save his merchandise on a crude boat.

Answer 6

The earliest version of the flood myth is that of the Sumerian in 2600BC while the hebrew flood story of Noah dates to at least 500BC. Some of the other ancient flood stories that share similarities are:
- Nuwa the creator goddess legend of China.
- Manu of the Hindu
- Naunet of the Egyptian.
- Atrahasis epic (tablet III) of the Babylonian.

The Noah story may be the best known but its not the original one. Like in modern disasters, it might be possible that in ancient time, several flood disasters happened in different parts of the world at different times, and each legend that passed down to its civilization thought that the great flood in their areas have reached the whole world.

Answer 7

well, "the world" was whatever lands those primitive story tellers knew about. and it would have been impossible to stuff not just mated pairs of every animal on the planet into that one relatively small boat but animals to feed the predator animals and feed to feed the grazer animals, plus the ones meant for sacrificial purposes. and keep in mind that all these animal are living for 40 days in a boat with one tiny window for ventilation. PHEW!!! the ammonia content of all that urine in that boat would have suffocated everything.

it's just a quaint little story. a lot of cultures have flood stories because a lot of places experienced floods.

Answer 8

yes it happened. I grew up not believing it but last year I sat down and did the homework, pen to paper. figured up how many animals, how big it had to be, how much food, how could if float, its design, its cubic mass, etc.

once you see it all on paper, its very easy to realize it happened.

1. he took "kinds" of animals, not species. so you are talking about 10,000 total. times 2 for pair or total of 20,000.
2. animals came to him, he did not have to collect them, he just had to build the boat.
3. when you compute out avg size of a animal, from largest to smallest, you get an avg. size of a sheep. but this is for an adult animal, so a baby is least 1/2 this size or size of a lamb.
4. lamb only needs 3 cubic feet of space. 3 cubic feet times 20,000 animals is 60,000 cubic feet, ark is over 1 million cubic feet in size. that sure leaves a ton of space, over 90% of the ark for food alone.
5. you take youth, babies, cause goal is to repopulate, grandpa elephant is hard for this job.
6. since all babies, eggs, youth, food amounts would be less. plus look at a farm today, does a farmer not put a horse or cow in a stall and pile it with hay for food? same way on ark.
7. no bugs, water animals, etc were on the ark, so that removes fish tanks, etc
8. water came up from the ground and from the rain. science knows there are vast caverns underground, for we can even walk in some (ky has some great ones).
9. global warming alone shows us that if you melt all the ice in the world, the oceans go up 50 feet at least. that alone will cover over 60% of the ground we know.
10. science as calculated all the water in the ocean, and all the water in the ground (the water table), if all were on the surface, it would be at least 100 yrds over top of the highest point on earth.

Answer 9

Not really, I mean supposedly it rain so much the world flooded. I say this many times, we live in a world with natural laws which cannot be violated, so where did this extra rain that flooded the world come from?

Answer 10

actually science does believe that there is evidence of a major flood in the middle east. wasn't a global flood but one big enough to flood a very large part of the middle east