Did you know that many seeds cannot outlive a flood?

Question

Let's use cannabis as an example. : p

Soaking in water, a cannabis seed will germinate within anywhere from one day to a week. At that time, if it is not removed from the water and planted in the soil... it... will... die.

Cannabis is an annual. It lives for one season and dies. It depends on new seeds surviving and reproducing, every single year. If the entire world is flooded, that means every cannabis plant on earth dies along with their seeds.

So the fact that cannabis is still around, and not extinct, tells me that there was no flood.

Answer 1

True.
But the inescapable fact that there was no flood, tells me that there was no flood.

Answer 2

Saw this Q earlier but wanted to get home so I coudl verify something before responding...

My brother threw out a can of cannabis seeds in my back yard about three years ago...nothing ever came of them...until all the recent flooding in my town...sure enough, there is now a cute little crop of them growing in one of my flower beds...how do you explain that? Perhaps different varieties behave differently...maybe he had some ancient variety that can lay dormant for years until it sprouts as a result of the flood?

...or perhaps cannabis is a result of plant evolution that happened after the flood?

...and then again, perhaps Noah had a stash on the ark...if you knew that you were going to spend several months locked on a boat with a bunch of smelly animals and your family, wouldn't you have taken along a good supply of weed?

sorry, I don't think your argument provides any evidence one way or another about whether the flood really happened *smile*!

Answer 3

Of course there was a flood!
About 11,000 years ago as the ice melted from the ice age the Black Sea which had been an isolated valley was flooded from the Mediterranean sea filling up the Black Sea area.
The flood stories where handed down via the oral tradition from this event.
There's no evidence of a Global flood.
There's global evidence of the meteor strike that created the mass extinction event of 65 million years ago.

Science is fun. Faith is inspirational. God is love.

Religion is B.S.
The insane beliefs in religion show the stupidity of religion.
Religions greatest contribution to mankind is an endless source of entertainment both at their atrocities and their stupidity. They are humanity's oldest freak show.

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Answer 4

Wow what an unscientific, answer totally lacking in any botanical or scientific knowledge.

Annual seeds can find their way deep into the topsoil. This can be flooded and dried over years on a flood plain but they will still flower. Look at all the floods there are anywhere in the world and you will still find all those areas self greened.

But your use of the cannabis poppy as your example points to another reason for your misguided question.

In only a decade the number of admissions to psychiatric hospital caused by cannabis soared by 85 per cent due to the fact that those who smoke the drug regularly are more than twice as likely to suffer illnesses such as schizophrenia, hallucinations and delusions later in life.

As well as psychotic illness cannabis can cause affective disorders such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. Even worse it is linked to cancers.

Psychiatric illnesses also figure a fascination with religion or debunking religion.

Ah now I see where you are coming from!!!!

Answer 5

I grew up on a farm, so yes, I knew that. It's a good argument, but not necessarily a compelling one, as seeds and spores often exhibit an astonishing capacity to survive adverse conditions -- ice, fire, you name it.

But of course the tale of a worldwide flood is nonsense, for many reasons.

Answer 6

Realize also that to cover the world in water, it would mean that most of the earth would have been under 6 miles of water. Not many seeds can survive that amount of pressure.

Answer 7

i guess, you're ignoring facts about the spiritual enviroment that existed before the earth, huh?
I guess, your ignoring the "FOUND" Noah's Ark..in muslim country, and even discovery channel talk of it..or was it history? I guess you're ignoring the seeds in USA desert, thatn hadn't seen rain...in a century..bloomed a year or few years ago..in Arizona or California? some national park..saw wildflowers Never seed...yet..that desert of USA..once upon a time..was under the sea.
and I guess you're ignoring the spiritual powerful nature of the Words of GOD..that can't be "VOID".
it is written something of the like of this..as the earth remain seedtime and harvest will continue...WORDS are SEEDS.
in a spiritual or humanist form..they either build/create or destroy...them seed or that seed your talking about..GOD is well able to create a world..put huge animals into hibernation..which is logical...of being in an ark for a year.

Answer 8

That's strange. Archeologists found seeds that are over 2500 years old, planted a few and they grew.

Answer 9

touche!