Many Christians believe that the great flood occured around 4,500 years ago. I come from Australia, our indigenous people lived in this country at least 60,000 years ago. Our Australian animals are unique. We have supposedly descended from Noah and his family but the evidence is stacked up against this theory. No offence intended to anyone of any religion but I'd like your opinion.
2007-06-03 21:12:51 · 14 answers · asked by Binki26 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Matrix: The British didn't send me anywhere. I was born here, so were my parents, and their parents. I don't believe that I descended from Noah, I am curious as to how Christians explain the fact that aboriginal people are not descendents of Noah or Adam and Eve.
2007-06-03 21:30:56 · update #1
I just realised that a couple of you thought I meant there was a theory that Australians were descendents of Noah. How Hilarious!
2007-06-03 22:10:23 · update #2
I don't know how they explain it really, maybe they just disreguard it seeing as most wont admit how old the earth is in the first place. I have some Maori blood too, they've got interesting animals and cultures set apart from europe and such.
It's nice to see other Australians around here :)
2007-06-03 22:07:46 · answer #1 · answered by Stephanie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many Eurasian cultures have flood stories
The story of a Great Flood sent by a deity or deities to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution is a widespread theme in Greek and many other cultural myths. Though it is known by the biblical story of Noah, it is also well known in other versions, such as stories of Matsya in the Hindu Puranas, Deucalion in Greek mythology and Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh. A large percentage of the world's cultures past and present have stories of a "great flood" that devastated earlier civilization. In the relatively recent geological past, several great floods are widely suspected to have occurred, with varying amounts of supporting evidence, usually as a result of the last Ice Age ending. At the most recent glacial maximum, so much of the planet's water was locked up in the vast ice-sheets that formed ice domes kilometers thick, that the sea level dropped by about 120 to 130 meters. As the sheets melted starting around 18,000 years ago sea levels rose. Most of the glacial melt had occurred by around 8,000 years ago, but the changes have not been as regular as a constant drip at the edges of the world's glaciers might suggest.
I would guess it didn't effect the Southern Hemisphere.
2007-06-03 21:27:19 · answer #2 · answered by hairypotto 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yea, religion is very accurate. Most of the things in the bible never happened, there is a thing called reality that kind of gets in the way. If you tell an extremely religious person how long the Abroiginals have been aorund they immediately say "Your lying, those tests are rigged to contradict religion because science wants to get rid of it". That isn't true, science is true and great for reality, most of the bible is made up of stories created to make a point (usually about love). Religion is good for Morality.
2007-06-03 21:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by Josh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible says that the total history of man on the earth is about 8,000 years.
The earth itself has been in existence for billions of years and with a long animal history [ dinosaurs...we have the bones as proof].
As to man, The bible proof is found in Genesis chapter five...the ages of the Patriarchs.
Add to this the geneology of Jesus in Matthew chapter one and Luke 3; 23-38.
A timeline chart made up will show the 8,000 years. It will even show that Methuselah outlived his long lived son by only four years.
Dont believe me? do the chart.
2007-06-03 22:20:26 · answer #4 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we never really know the year the Great Flood occured. The story itself kinda miracle for us to know. How about the creation of the world and its habitants? Who actually been there and reported back to us? and of course.. all of us are descended from Noah and his family.
2007-06-03 21:19:43 · answer #5 · answered by IcyCool 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Many Christians believe that the great flood occured around 4,500 years ago"
Young Earth Creationists typically couldn't solve a differential equation to save their lives and yet they feel confident enough to dismiss volumes of evidence from various scientific disciplines without actually having examined them.
It is true simply because the bible says so. Reasoning won't work, currently I'm trying ridicule.
2007-06-03 21:16:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
descended from Noah? giz a break maam. it wasnt till recently that the British sent you over there. it was all aborigines before that.
2007-06-03 21:18:13 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no the clarification they look so differnet is with the help of the fact australia is remoted from something of the international thats why the australian flora and fauna is so unique aswell and the guy whos asserting they are community human beings is seriuosly retarded...
2016-10-09 10:22:48 · answer #8 · answered by hemmingway 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I come from good Maori stock & we've been around a looong time as well.
Noah is no relation of mine.
2007-06-03 21:37:46 · answer #9 · answered by Screamin' Banshee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's because the Bible isn't a book of actual facts.
2007-06-03 21:18:33 · answer #10 · answered by Daisy Indigo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋