Supposedly it is said in the bible there was a worldwide flood. (Noah) Assuming ....?

Question

that to be true, wouldn't it have taken longer than 150 days for the waters to recede? That is less than six months, and where did the excess water come from and where did it go to on a planet that is in natually "balanced?" Fill a bottle half full of water and put a lid on it to represent earth. Now try to "fill" it the rest of the way. Can you do it??

Harold B - I am a person of faith. "God's" faith, not "man's," and to prove that much of Judaism is goes into many unnecessary "fables," to try to show God in heaven is "superior." I see if that was the goal of the ancient hebrews, wouldn't it have been BETTER to do it with an "entity" which "behaved" SUPERIOR, instead of one who behaved just as "inferior" as mankind? The way it stand, all these off the wall "fables" only help to prove that mathematically, they were impossible scenarios, and don't prove a thing except someone had the bad habit of overexaggerating many things to give their God an out of this world nature.., but in my opinion works the opposite in the truly intelligent........

Answer 1

There was a deluge that occurred on this planet but it was not the total planet. It only happened in one region of the world. The arch was found but it is not the arch of the Noah.

The story of Noah was not the first story of the deluge when an arch was built. All of the bibles stories were taken from other sources and changed to fit in the bible.

It takes time for people to accept facts that totally dispute their religion they have come to believe in so dear.

Zecharia Sitchin has done some wonderful research that has been proven to be true. His work explains alot of things not understood on our planet from man's missing link to all the megalithic structures. We have to look at the current bible like a plagiarism of many other works. The Christian will not accept these facts even when they read them. This is what we call denial.

Answer 2

Seven days before the rain started, God ordered Noah, who was 600 years old, to come into the Ark with his family and all the animals. (Gen. 7:1-4, 6). God sealed them in the Ark. (Gen. 7:16). God caused water to both rise up from below the earth and to fall from the sky for 40 days, until the water was 22 feet deep over the highest mountain. (Gen. 7:11-12, 19-20). Everyone and everything that had lived on dry ground was drowned. Only those in the Ark survived. (Gen. 7:21-23).



After 150 days the water began to subside. The Ark came to rest on a high mountain of Ararat. Three months later the tops of the mountains could be seen. (Gen. 8:3-5). When the surface of the ground was dry enough, the Bible says that God told Noah to go out of the Ark, 365 days after he entered it. (Gen. 8:16).

Later, God made a promise that "never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth." The rainbow is the sign of His covenant. (Gen. 9:8-17).


The Bible says, "all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened," in Genesis 7:11. This is consistent with saying that volcanoes erupted and that previously stored water high in the atmosphere was released. A great quantity of water is released with a volcanic eruption. If hundreds of volcanoes erupted both above and below the surface of the oceans, then the amount of water spewing forth on the earth is unimaginable to me. Genesis 1:7 tells us that the earth originally had water above the sky. With the greater surface area at a very high altitude in the earth's atmosphere, the thickness of water, probably in a gaseous state, would not have to be very great to store an incredible quantity of water which God could release upon the earth. This water would have been thin enough to allow adequate sunlight through. Also, the weight of this water would have caused there to be a greater barometric pressure prior to the Flood. Worldwide atmospheric barometric pressure drops and increased sunlight penetration would have created a world that was very different after the Flood. These changes provide reasonable theories about the decreasing life spans and the extinction of numerous species after the Flood.

Answer 3

Read the book of Genesis in the Bible. Within the first chapter, I found some fascinating treasures as a young person. Most of my creationist views developed in Genesis Chapter 1.

Here we go:

1(A)In the beginning (B)God (C)created the heavens and the earth.

2The earth was [a](D)formless and void, and (E)darkness was over the surface of the deep, and (F)the Spirit of God (G)was [b]moving over the surface of the waters.

[Interesting, creation didn't even start yet, but notice water was here on a hunk of formless void mass already.]

3Then (H)God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

4God saw that the light was (I)good; and God (J)separated the light from the darkness.

5(K)God called the light day, and the darkness He called night And (L)there was evening and there was morning, one day.

6Then God said, "Let there be an (M)expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."

7God made the [c]expanse, and separated (N)the waters which were below the expanse from the waters (O)which were above the expanse; and it was so.

[Wow, above the atmosphere and below the atmosphere the waters divided. In other words, theres water on the land and water well above the sky, likely in crystallized form due to the cold and would have more perfectly absorb some of the sun's ultraviolet rays, thereby reducing the amount of potentially harmful radiation that reaches the earth's surface as does the ozone layer today. It would have the same properties as pure clear gold (that's what is on the visors of astronauts suit. And would bend light like fiber-optics.]

8God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

9Then God said, "(P)Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let (Q)the dry land appear"; and it was so.

[Now we have land, sea, rivers, lakes, streams, water falls, etc. Now if you remember in science class, there are underground aquifers in the form of lakes, rivers, even waterfalls.]

10God called the dry land earth, and the (R)gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.

[Now compare the information you now have with Genesis 7]

10It came about after (J)the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth.

[So the water that hung like a canopy above the earth would have created the perfect atmospheric pressure which would have been twice as much as we are accustomed to. What resulted, people lived longer, were bigger... Look at the atmospheric pressure in the ocean, it can sustain large life. ]

1A. ["...just as important, envision the firmament - this double bubble of crystalline water - and the effect it would have upon the atmospheric pressure. The atmosphere would be pressurized to a greater degree than we now have. Researchers, like Dr. Henry Voss, at the University of Illinois, have been able to approximate the atomic weight of such a canopy. This crystalline canopy would put a cap on the atmosphere. Atmospheric pressure today at sea level is 14.7 pounds per square inch. Before the Flood, the air pressure would have been about two times what it is today....

...The ratio of oxygen in the atmosphere would have been about thirty percent, compared to twenty-one percent today. Some researchers have concluded that due to the pre-Flood atmospheric conditions which had greater amounts of oxygen, man could have run up to two hundred miles without suffering fatigue. It has been discovered in hyperbaric medical chamber experiments that under these circumstances, an open wound would heal overnight. It is therefore understandable how man could have lived to be several hundred years old, even after the fall, in this pre-Flood world, Heavier air pressure and more oxygen in the atmosphere were conducive to longer life."]

11In the (K)six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all (L)the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

[So, the answer to your question, some of the waters returned back to the aquifers, Allot of aquifers are dry today which are now called fault lines and the cause of earthquakes when tectonic plates grind together. You see in verse 11 above, the fountains of the great deep burst open meaning the aquifers burst open while the sky opend up and rained, violent event in earths history.]

12(M)The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

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AnthropologistCarl

Answer 4

there is not any international info of a unmarried flood taking place at one time over all of the planet. If one among those flood as defined interior the bible did happen, it would have required 5X the water on the instant interior the oceans of the international. Getting that plenty water onto the planet in 40 days and 40 nights might have presented respiratory issues for anybody. additionally, if this flood occurred, the place did all that water come from and the place did it pass?

Answer 5

Now, you must not have paid attention in geology class. The planet is made up of tectonic plates that shift, ever so slightly all the time. Where they collide- we get high mountain ranges. And if they collide in one place, they pull apart somewhere else (in iceland there is a place where the plates are pulling apart). The great flood is a story passed down because way back when, the plates moved away allowing the ocean to flood in...over thousands of years, they moved again... it's a very old story that pre-dates "modern" religion...
And by the way... flooding does happen all the time... do you think the people of New Orleans would have thought the same thing if this had happened to them, say, two hundred years ago?

Answer 6

I visited a web site Wyatt Archeology and they had a large section of that web site examining what appears to be the semi fossilized remains of Noah's Ark. Including sections of wood that date to the exact dates, anchor stones from an exact same time frame, the measurements are the same dimensions as in the Bible story, the metallurgy was exactly the same level of technology as in that time period, and the ruins also include lots of animal hairs.
Since the example that you gave proves 100% that the Bible is wrong, wrong, wrong could you explain why the Turkish government would spend a fortune to create a hoax other than the obvious tourist trap like:
__ COME TO ABDUL'S___ NOAH'S ARK EXHIBIT__
__CAMEL RIDES ONLY 2X AS MUCH FOR JEWISH CHILDREN __
__BUDDHISTS WELCOME__
Seriously why was this lying hoax created? Like Turkey is an Islamic Nation and spending that much money and archaeological skill to build a hoax that would only confirm the Jewish scripture to be true seems to be counter productive to their belief system.
Why didn't they just find the bones of Muhammad's magic camel or something real like that?
It would be nice of you to tell everyone why this hoax was created.
Another hoax you should explain is why the European Union joined in on this hoax. Noahs son Japeth had seven sons and he settled to the north toward Europe and the DNA bank showed allmost all European women descended from seven women. Are European politicians trying to force Judaism onto the European people in violation of their official state atheism?
Please explain. Like you I believe in science as your scientific example is provable and repeatable. I couldn't pour water into a jar with the cover on it. That proved the Bible is in total error. Thank you for the question it shows an intelligent mind.

Answer 7

It has been established by some scientists that in the past the whole Mediterranean was a lake,( many feet below sea level.)
The lake was sealed off from the Atlantic by a natural ridge connecting Gibraltar and Morocco.
The theory goes that a strong earthquake opened that natural floodgate thus flooding a large portion of land around the Mediterranean. It make sense to me!
Natural phenomena! Not God!

Answer 8

The details may differ, but myths could have basis in reality. I mean, how sure can we moderns be about what actually happened in the past? The Sumerians wrote about it in Atrahasis where Utnaphistim (Ziusudra) was the 'Noah' character. Let's be open for possibilities. After all, let's remind ourselves that giant squids were a figment of our imagination up until now.

Answer 9

Yes that would be correct!
40 days and 40 nights!
god left a Rainbow as a promise that He would never flood the Earth again

Answer 10

Actually the flood happened. Earthquake in the Mediterranean Sea.
Was documented on TV (History Chanel) a few months ago.