Noahs Ark, did it really happen?

Question

I am having doubts, after reading many questions about it I am now doubting it happened at all, I have read people stating that it was a local flood, but that isn't what the bible says.

Answer 1

It is not only unlikely, it is impossible.

Answer 2

There is no way that it ever happened.

The logistics of gathering feeding and returning all those animals are ridiculous.

There has been no sea going boat that big ever because it would break up. The tea clippers which were much smaller relied on steel bracing and steam pumps because they leaked so badly in rough weather. Any qualified nautical engineer will tell you it would never work.

The only window was about 2ft by 2ft. ventilating the entire ark for the best part of a year. You would need about a 70mph air speed though that window, plus ducting to take the air everywhere. No bronze age technology is going to do that.

Noah sends of the raven. It does not come back, presumably drowned. Ravens are unclean birds, so there were only 2 on the ark. . . . .

A global flood would have left significant and definite geological signs. They are not there.

There are continuous recorded histories in Egypt and elsewhere that move seamlessly though the time the flood was supposed to have happened. You would have thought that those scribes would have stopped writing underwater, or at least mentioned it!


It is the rewriting of a Mesopotamian story which was probably based on an unusually heavy flooding of the Euphrates river.


Sorry, the bible is wrong.

Answer 3

This is a story from the Bible, which was written by man. That means that the possibility exists that it may not be true. Think about it for yourself. Two of every animal on the planet..........come on, there is no ship large enough, there is no way it could be built in any time let alone way back then. What did all those animals eat for the long time they were on the "Ark"? Where did they go to the bathroom? Where did all the water go if the whole planet was flooded? That's a lot of hydrogen and oxygen to simply disappear.
Take religion for what it is, a belief structure meant to satisfy the powerful thoughts that man can create. Man needs to have something to believe in that is bigger than man.

Answer 4

I have so many ways of disprooving noah's ark, but I'm going to choose what I like to call the goat explanation. If there were two of every animal on noah's ark, in this case two goats, the two goats would have mated, produced a child, and that child wouldn't have any other goats to mate with. The only other option is to mate with it's parent of the opposite sex, which would mean the goat would have to impregnate it's mother, or be impregnated by it's father. Eventually the parents would die and the goat would have to mate with it's own child. The only way the billions of goats on this planet would still be around today would be through generations of inbreeding. And lots of it to obtain that number of goats. However, god says incest is a sin and therefore the bible contradicts itself once again. Not to mention the deformation issues caused by inbreeding, and the chance that the child is a male and it's mother dies before it reaches sexual maturity, thus dooming the entire goat species forever.

Answer 5

I would say it was probably a local flood in the middle east area of the world. There is some evidence to support such a localized flood. Also this would have been the entire world to someone writng about this a few thousand years ago. There is another story about the great flood called the Epic of Gilgamesh, I would suggest reading it if you would like to learn more about it.

Answer 6

Considering that some of the animals had to eat the others to survive, and some of them have lifespans of only a few hours, and also that some cannot survive in climates not suited for them (how did 2 penguins get from wherever the ark landed to antartica?), and all the freshwater fish didn't die (where did they go when the salty oceans covered the earth?) and also considering that there isn't enough water in the world to cause a flood that tops the highest mountains (where did it go?)... I can see why you have doubts.

FYI, a 2 km high layer of water around the earth falling down as rain would create enough heat turn itself into steam and sterilize the entire planet.

Edit: Who is giving me the thumbs down?? It's not my fault this flood story is a pure impossibility! Maybe it should have been written better. Honestly, talk about getting crucified for delivering a message...

Answer 7

Concerning the flood, there is evidence it was global.

According to The Dynamic Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology, 75 percent of the rocks seen on the earth’s surface are sedimentary in origin and the remainder are igneous or volcanic (Brian Skinner and Stephen Porter, 1989, p. 20).

In some areas, sedimentary deposits cover the earth to a depth of some five miles.

This water-deposited strata offers abundant evidence of massive floods unlike anything seen in human history outside the Bible. We understand, of course, that everything in the geologic record cannot be explained by one flood. In fact, the Bible begins with a description of our planet covered with water (Genesis 1:2,9-10), so much of Earth’s sedimentary strata must date to this time or even before this time. However, the massive scale of the Flood of Noah’s time no doubt caused other, later formations (for more details, download or request our free booklet Creation or Evolution: Does It Really Matter What You Believe?).

Animals of every kind died in great numbers and were buried almost instantly” (Alfred Rehwinkel, The Flood, 1951, p. 183, emphasis added). The important fact is that this massive deposit of many kinds of animals was obviously made by a huge amount of water.

In addition, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia provides evidence of the Noachian Flood: “Among these evidences one of the most convincing is to be found in the cave of San Ciro at the base of the mountains surrounding the plain of Palermo in Sicily. In this cave there was found an immense mass of the bones of hippopotami of all ages down to the fetus, mingled with a few of the deer, ox and elephant.

Collections of bones are found in various ossiferous fissures, in England and Western Europe, notably in the Rock of Gibraltar and at Santenay, a few miles South of Chalons in central France, where there is an accumulation of bones in fissures 1,000 ft. above the sea, similar in many respects to that in the cave described at San Ciro, though the bones of hippopotami did not appear in these places; but the bones of wolves, bears, horses and oxen, none of which had been gnawed by carnivora, were indiscriminately commingled as though swept in by all-pervading currents of water” (1915, “Deluge of Noah”).

Answer 8

The ark is historical fact (the boat itself). Geologically, it's certainly not impossible to have a global flood and there are many models which could explain exactly how it happened. You're not going to find the evidence you need here... go out and read some books (check out www.answersingenesis.org) and you'll find lots of cool facts supporting the idea of a global flood without relying on the text of the Bible.

Answer 9

I believe it happened for many reasons. One I believe in the Christian Bible. Two many great civilizations of that time all have very similar stories of a great deluge. Many different hero characters came out of it. I do not necessarily believe that everyone except Noah and his family survived but I do believe that there was a great cataclysmic flood that encompassed a great portion of the globe or would would not have these practically identical myth legends from so many different parts of the world.

Answer 10

if it was a local flood than anyone could have escaped just by relocating.... or if it was a local flood God could have told noah to go to another location

Answer 11

It is a Sumerian story. There is no way the entire earth flooded.

"doubt is the devils tool" This means that you should not think for yourself and better believe what you are told no matter how absurd it sounds or you are one with Satan. So don't think at all, stay an idiot and just believe. Please be smarter than that.