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i was wondering if there are any scientific evidences that there was a huge flood as stated in the story. have scientists actually found anything that can be related back to it?

2007-07-07 13:29:54 · 10 answers · asked by ? 3 in Science & Mathematics Earth Sciences & Geology

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You can find evidence of almost anything you can think of if you look hard enough and ignore what doesn't fit.

Looking at evidence then trying to find an explanation which fits all of it is a much better method of finding more accurate answers. When we do that with all the evidence geology presents, it tells us that sediments were deposited over billions of years with no one single event anything similar to a global flood leaving any evidence to be explained.

2007-07-07 13:47:16 · answer #1 · answered by Now and Then Comes a Thought 6 · 0 2

Noah's arch is a uncomplicated tale that grew from different religions interior the section (IE zionism). in case you look the place the thoughts got here from it replaced into the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (modern Iraq). Many scientists agree, in line with massive sediment deposits(such because of the fact the unexpected transgression of limestone, shale and sandstone) that a flood did take place in that section. then you definately ought to take into the account that the folk who wrote the thoughts could not in all probability have commonly used how massive the international is. So while they say the international did flood, technically their international flooded considering the undeniable fact that they had not ventured any farther than the middle east simply by geographic stumbling blocks. Noah setting up 2 of each and every animal into the arch replaced into in all probability fake and in basic terms figurative speech to charm to the listeners into the story. it is likewise real that their are greater suitable than one Arch's got here across interior the middle east, so NOAH being the only one is an entire understatement. As for the ice age, the bible would not point out it because of the fact it did not take place in the time of any age of written history. additionally the section the place Christianity replaced into created wasn't inspired by using chilly climate such as you think of an ice age could. the middle east on the time replaced right into a temperate zone and not a desolate tract.

2016-11-08 10:35:37 · answer #2 · answered by oppie 4 · 0 0

Every continent has it's own evidence that at one time water left tracks consistent with flooding...but the whole world is not indicating that a flood happened when Moses was whizzing in the weeds..
Nearly ever portion of every continent has been below sea levels at one time, or another, due to the tectonic plates moving across inner earth irregularity's...continental drifting raises and lowers the above sea levels of continents constantly over time..it's just the way earth is.
Noah wrote what he thought he knew.. he had no clue what his story would turn into for these myopic minded individuals still clinging to his concept of earth rather than what the 'earth' actually IS.

Geolicious has it rite again.

2007-07-10 15:47:45 · answer #3 · answered by olddogwatchin 5 · 0 0

The story of Noah and the great flood is one that so permeates our culture that generations of geologists have devoted their lives to looking for evidence of a prehistoric worldwide flood. But it was not until the 1990's that geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman gathered clues pointing to an actual ancient flood in the Middle East about 7,500 years ago. Sediment core-samples the scientists took from the bottom of the Black Sea revealed sections of once-dry, sun-baked land.


Geologists Walter Pitman and William Ryan were the first to gather evidence that the Black Sea flooded 7500 years ago

These sediments were then covered by sections of uniform mud, strongly suggesting that these plains underwent a long-ago influx of saltwater. Though not worldwide, this cataclysmic event occurred at what could have been a locus of human activity at the time.




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The Black Sea: Before and After

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In their 1998 book, Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History, Ryan and Pitman suggest the Black Sea was once a much smaller, land-locked freshwater lake, fed by ancient rivers, and surrounded by fertile plains. Neolithic people, Ryan and Pitman suppose, would have flocked to farm these Eden-like plains to farm them while supplementing their diets with the lake's abundant shellfish.

At this time - about 7,500 years ago - the global climate was still rapidly warming following the last Ice Age, causing the seas to rise. Ryan and Pitman hypothesize that, when sea levels rose beyond a critical point, the Mediterranean Sea overflowed, deluging the Black Sea basin with salty water and destroying the fertile plains around the once-shallow freshwater lake.


Pitman and Ryan proposed the Mediterranean Sea surged north through the Bosporus Straits to form the larger, salty Black Sea we know today.

Any people living on those plains at the time would have witnessed what must have seemed like the wrath of an angry god. Based on the still northern flowing undercurrents of what we call the Bosporus Straits, Ryan and Pitman estimate the water rushed northward through this channel with force many times greater than Niagara Falls. As the waters rose about six inches per day, human settlements would have been washed away or under hundreds of feet of water within a year or so. Traumatized refugees from the flood must have told their story to shocked listeners. Is this the story so many of us still tell our children today?

Inspired by Ryan and Pitman's work, Bob Ballard and an international team of specialized scientists and engineers took a small fleet of ships and remotely operated vehicles (ROV's) into the Black Sea seeking evidence of human habitation before the flood.
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it was just a local flood, not one that covered the whole world

2007-07-07 13:41:36 · answer #4 · answered by henry d 5 · 4 0

Well during the Cretaceous period which ended 65 million years ago 90% of the Earth's land mass was covered in water. Of course, that's not the only time in geologic history that the ocean's have been that high but it is one that's dicussed frequently.

As for Noah's ark, that story was written by Moses, who had no idea of the size or scope of the world at that time. If there had been a flood during Noah's time, it most likely would have been on a local level, maybe a large local level, but small scale nonetheless. Not a large enough scale to cause a global impact, like the Cretaceous flooding.

When reading the Bible, which has excellent advice on how to treat other people and live your life, you have to keep it in a historical context. About the people who wrote it and about the people who put it together. How much its been translated and what's been lost over time. The Protestants alone removed 7 books of the Bible. The men who wrote the Bible were just that: men. And no matter how inspired by God they were they could still be falliable, predjudiced, and may have gravely misunderstood God.

2007-07-07 13:38:49 · answer #5 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 3 2

See Hugh B. Auchincloss Brown =Cataclysm of the earth.
This scientifically explains how the earth has careened over the surface of the Globe.
Mount Arat in turkey supported evide3nce of a large vessel of the similar proportion given about Noah's Arch.
The latest tsunami indicates what the fountains of the deep erruptions can do.
Most cultures of the world speak of a large inundation of the world and what remains of that inundation is 2/3 of the Globe's surface is water.

2007-07-09 05:22:31 · answer #6 · answered by goring 6 · 0 1

There are proofs of great floods in many areas of the earth.
There are stories similar to Noah, in many cultures.
Scientists have found evidence of great floods.
There is discussion of something found near Mt. Ararat that could be an ark.

2007-07-07 13:40:31 · answer #7 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0 2

henry d is right.

Also, the Tigris and Euphrates had some unusually large floods.

2007-07-08 03:03:07 · answer #8 · answered by tarh okon d 1 · 1 0

all the dinosaurs drowned cuz they wouldn't fit on the ark ?

2007-07-07 13:57:13 · answer #9 · answered by PH 5 · 0 2

none, major conflict

2007-07-07 14:26:50 · answer #10 · answered by njdevil 5 · 0 2

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