Biblical The Great Flood, why?

Question

The bible says that the flood covered the whole of earth to a depth of forty feet.
When it receded, where did all the water go to?
More to the point; where did it come from? There has only ever, and always will be, an exact amount of water on the earth which keeps getting re-cycled via the water cycle.

Fact: The rivers Tigris and Euphrates flooded and joined, creating a flood that covered one hundred miles by forty miles.
To the people who lived there it was their whole world and the chances are they never travelled half that far, let alone the whole forty or hundred miles. But to explain it, someone of very little intelligence, decided to write the story as he saw it, and others, like-minded, believed the words came from someone called God.
Only those of a `brainwashed from birth` nature believes in gods which are only in the minds and thoughts of those who know no better.
The other explanation came later; the land bridge from Gibraltar and North Africa was breached and the first known tsunami flooded what was the Mediterranean valley, forming what is now the Mediterranean Sea, and carried across country, past Mesopotamia, which is now Iraq, and the Flood story was born again.
Burn your bibles, they are of no use to you now, only for telling fairy stories to the kids at bedtime.

Answer 1

dont take the bible literally....

Answer 2

First of all, where did the bible say anything about 40 feet? There have been warm periods when the ice caps have melted a lot and the water level on the planet has raised. I remember reading somewhere that if all the ice melted, the oceans could be about 50 feet higher. This kind of flooding has happened many times, in between ice ages.
Noah's flood supposedly covered all the land on the planet. Surely even those who wrote the bible or told the legends which led to it, realized that 40 feet wouldn't cover nearly enough land so that Noah would be adrift for several months. Even the stupidest story-teller knew about hills and mountains in those days.
Despite the tireless efforts of fundies, there has been no evidence indicating a sudden flood of anything like that magnitude. Keep in mind, these are the same people who cling to the Ussher chronology and will tell you that this flood occurred only about 6000 years ago.
No, the flood of Noah didn't happen. It's a myth. So don't bother asking scientific questions like where the water came from and where it went. If you believe in God-miracles, then you never need to ask that question, anyway. An omnipotent God can do anything he wants, right? Make the water appear, then make it disappear. Although the biblical view is entirely wrong, at least it is a lot easier to understand.

Answer 3

The whole earth to the people that told the stories of Noah's flood was a might small place. The flooding of the Mediterranean Sea would have been geologically much too early to have been recorded by man. A better candidate is the flooding of the Black Sea when the land separating this below sea level basin was breach by the Mediterranean Sea. This is now called the Straits of Bosporus. This is geologically more recent and a better candidate.

Answer 4

Glacial melt could have contributed to the basis of the story with the characters added in at a later time. Many people during that era were fascinated with writing tales of morality and punishment.

If the excess glacial melt water broke through a point where the mountains were weakend, it would have spilled into the sea.

And like I said in a response to another question, even if a tiny area flooded over there, they would have thought the whole earth was covered. The story got passed down generation after generation and the other elements such as the ark and animals were added in to help make a convincing argument as to why one should heed the warnings of "God".

Answer 5

The folks who collected, discussed, and selected previously acquired written accounts drawn from oral accounts, records
of other authorities, and weighed on the scales of what was
a desired result for effect of entire content then I submit that The Holy Bible is worthy enough to keep. It alone is not
the last word. The King James Bible was another. Islam is
another. The point is our road to understanding remains open and we have accounting's yet to be resolved. What we
lack is the ability and will to do so. The good news is our
ability to build better bridges may yet better unite us.

It would help if we preserved the other things that still exist from the 'cutting room floor' that did not suit the desired effect simply because they too represent every much our previous historical wealth as The Holy Bible. We, the logic based establishment of our times, need to examine all the evidence available. This includes the sealed vaults in Vatican City,
Rome. Where else do we go for truth? Who has claim? Salt Lake City, Utah? Are there sealed temple vaults there too?

Otherwise, people will continue to view only part of the total story of our previous existence and reach less than accurate conclusions.

Answer 6

Yes and the world clearly wasn't created in 7 days.

We shouldn't take the bible literally. I think most modern Christians now believe that the old testament is just stories probably in existence to come up with reasons for scientific things they couldn't explain. Although they can get God's inspiration from them, they don't actually believe them (apart from the Creationists which is a whole other kettle of fish). What would seem like the whole world being flooded might only have been their own area - remember they didn't even know the world was round so they would have had no concept of the world as a whole.

Answer 7

Instead of just displaying your ignorance, perhaps you should consider what the Bible actually says, and consider some of the actual evidence.
If ll the land mass on earth were 'leveled off' then the land would be covered by sea to a depth of over 1 mile. So you could say it's fortunate that there is any dry land at all.
As for where the water came from - most of it came from underground - the 'fountains of the deep'. Even today there is much water in underground aquifers. It is interesting to consider how it got there. The pressure is too great for it to have seeped down from above.

If you want to find out more about the subject of Noah's flood (instead of hurling ignorant abuse), then you cannot do better than browse here.
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3000/

Answer 8

Hi there

When the Holy Quran tells about the incident it never says that the whole of the earth was covered. And the water came from two places: One from the sky and the other from underneath the ground.

Answer 9

Well, it just goes to show what you know, doesn't it?

Everyone knows that the Great Dribbling Monster from a small planet somewhere in the region of Beetlejuice stopped off here for a rest and a quick dribble round about the time you are talking about.

In fact, the Great Dribbling Monster, whilst here, also relieved itself - the very remains of which still exist to this very day.

We call it Australia and the people that live there think they can play cricket . . . . .

Answer 10

Sorry, can't answer your question but how's this for weird?. As I read you question a documentary called "Noah's flood" came on to BBC Prime. It's looking at scientific explanations for the flood.

They are saying it's all to do with "counter currents" in the Black sea.

Answer 11

its obvious, god went to another planet like, well i dont know which one but he did and he took all of that planets water and put it on earth and then took it back again once all the dirties had been washed away, heaven knows where they went though... denver?