Ok...so your "proof" for the Great Flood is...?

Question

the fact that nearly every culture has some story of a Flood, so does that mean dragons exist(ed) because EVERY culture has some story of a dragon...and I'm sure there's some reference in that book about dragons...maybe the Beast was a dragon? And what about that one story about Nessie...that Saint Columbia was at Loch Ness, and a swimmer was being harassed by a giant serpent, then the Good Saint forbade the creature never to harm another human again, and then the monster sped off into the loch...(wasn't in the Bible ((I think)) but he WAS a Saint...so does that mean that Nessie exists then? (I believe she does but ah well) PLEASE LOGICAL ANSWERS ONLY!!!!

You got a point Donkey, I know that most cultures were created near lakes and rivers, and they do flood, (it's a question for the creationist who believe everything the Bible tells them though...) and I guess that having a logical answer from most creationists IS asking too much...maybe I should have toned it down to "Pseudo-Logical Answers" then...

And for the point...I'm asking not about any age or anything about the Earth, PLEASE READ THE BLASTED QUESTION!!! I'm ASKING that some people have proof only that every culture has a recorded flood, and Christians believe that, and sometimes, only that, so why don't the believe in dragons then because every culture has a dragon in it...

Answer 1

You're absolutely right. The fact that nearly every culture has some Flood story is proof only that every culture has experienced a devastating flood.

That can only be expected considering that 70% of the earth surface is covered in water.

Look at what happened just a few years ago with Hurricane Katrina. And the when the Mississippi flooded the midwest about 10 years ago. Both of these were Great Floods, yet have nothing to do with the alleged biblical account of a worldwide flood.

Answer 2

Uh, there's also the geologic record. Remember, when Mt St Helens blew, we got thousands of years worth of 'erosion' from the event, demonstrating that scientists don't really have a clue as to the actual age of the earth. OR the Flood.

Answer 3

Stories about floods and dragons only make scientific sense to those who have an inkling about science. To those who shun science, these both seem like reasons to believe in god.

Answer 4

Every story has a flood story because most early societies formed around rivers and lakes......which have a tendency to flood on occasion.

Answer 5

If there was a large flood, which most likely there was, don't you think anyone telling a story about it would think it covered the whole earth, probably. They didn't know how large the was so they would have descibed it as such.

Answer 6

You want LOGICAL answers from Creationists??? Dont you think youre asking too much?

Jeanmarie - your source is over 30 years old, and doesnt explain why ZERO evidence of a universal flood has ever been found in China, which is a massive piece of land... Have any newer sources of this alleged universal flood? Besides Reader's Digest??

Answer 7

read Genesis..
3:14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this,
"Cursed are you above all the livestock
and all the wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
so he must have had somthin and that was his legs and even his wings...

Answer 8

Geologists have shown there was a world wide flood!
One of the most fascinating scientific discoveries in recent times regarding a universal flood came from some scientists who were not searching for any evidence of the Flood. It came from oceanographers in the Gulf of Mexico who were doing some rather routine research on coral and sediments of the ocean floor.

Their two oceanographic vessels had pulled from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico several long, slender core samples of the sediment, which includes the fossil shells of one-celled plankton called foraminifera. While still alive, these organisms lock into their shells a chemical record of the temperature and salinity of the water. When they reproduce, the shells fall away and drop to the bottom. A cross-section of that ocean bed carries a record of climates that the oceanographers say go back more than 100 million years.

The cores were analyzed in two different investigations-by Cesar Emiliani of the University of Miami, and by James Kennett of the University of Rhode Island and Nicholas Shack of Cambridge University. Both analyses pointed to a dramatic drop in the salinity of the water providing compelling evidence of a vast flood of fresh water into the Gulf of Mexico thousands of years ago.

Cesar Emiliani explains the results: "A huge amount of ice-melt water rushed into the Gulf of Mexico and produced a sea-level rise that spread around the world with the speed of a tidal wave." He adds, "We know this because the oxygen isotope ratios of the foraminifera shells show a marked temporary decrease in the salinity of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It clearly shows that there was a major period of flooding from 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, with a peak about 11,600 years ago. There is no question that there was a flood and there is also no question that it was a universal flood" ("Noah, the Flood, the Facts," Readers Digest, U.S. edition, September 1977, p. 133).

It is also worth mentioning that the radiocarbon dating used to establish the number of years is imprecise after 4,000 years, so the time of this universal deluge could be closer to the 4,300 years described in the Bible as the time of the biblical Flood.

Another recent discovery that could have a relation to the inundation of the Gulf of Mexico is the finding by geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman of the sudden flooding of the Black Sea basin around 6,000 to 7,000 years ago (according to their dating). "The salt water," says Smithsonian magazine, "poured through the deepening channel, creating a waterfall 200 times the volume of Niagara Falls. In a single day enough water came through the channel to cover Manhattan to a depth two times the height of the [former] World Trade Center, and the roar of the cascading water would have been audible at least 100 miles away" ("Evidence for a Flood," April 2000, electronic version).

An additional evidence of the Deluge being global and not local is the literally thousands of flood stories from around the world. One enterprising historian, Dr. Aaron Smith of the University of Greensboro, North Carolina, became obsessed with classifying all the flood accounts. "As a result of years of labor, he has collected a complete history of the literature on Noah's Ark. There are 80,000 works in seventy-two languages about the Flood, of which 70,000 mention the legendary wreckage of the Ark" (Werner Keller, The Bible as History, 1980, p. 38).

It is hard to believe that if the Flood were only a local event, there would be 80,000 different accounts of it from around the world that describe it as universal in scope.
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Answer 9

Christianity takes faith, not proof. Even if you were given a great amount of proof about Bible stories, you still need faith to believe Jesus is the Son of God.

Answer 10

i mean, dragons may have existed... I'd like to think that they did... but when people are tired, scared, or some reaction along those lines, people hallucinate, and when people do hallucinate, they attempt to bring their imaginations to reality... so, i wish that dragons really existed... but i actually thing they are just people's imaginations during hallucinations...