apparently noahs flood did not even reach china or japan..read anARTICLEthat said it only happened in noahs ..

Question

provincial area..for the illiterates then that seemed like the whole globe?

Answer 1

Any place where there were large rivers had flooding. Some of this flooding lasted for many days, weeks, maybe a month or more. All societies in that region had flood stories. There is no evidence for a world wide flood. The idea that you could get all animals inside a boat is ludicrous.

Answer 2

I believe the flood stories as Noah and many others talk of a time when the Earth shifted axis or maybe the ocean was hit by an asteroid which caused the floods.

I was watching a video on Tibet and a trip to Mustang, and on the way there someone stumbles across a sea shell in the desert high in the mountains! One of the Tibetans said "yes at one time this was all under the ocean."
I saw the sea shell the guy that was with them picked up.
To the Tibetans they didn't really think anything about it, like it is common to find sea shells there.
So I think there could have been some catastrophe that flooded much of the earth.

Here is a link of the many flood stories way back to Babylon, they could all be different accounts of the same story just told over and over again by all cultures.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html

Answer 3

Localised floods happen all the time - as we have seen in recent weeks in the UK, and even more so in India and Bangladesh where millions are now homeless.

However there is no evidence of a single worldwide flood, and lots of evidence that it didn't happen. For example, there's a lake in Japan which has millions of what are known as varves - annual lines caused by the growth and death of algae every year. These are unbroken for millions of years and prove that Japan at least was undisturbed by any global flood. Of course, the written records of both the Chinese and Egyptian civilisations continue throughout the supposed date of the flood, failing to note any flood that destroyed their people.

It's not true, as other posters have stated, that the Chinese symbol for 'flood' is a boat with eight people in. See http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CG/CG101.html:
"The phonetic element [of the symbol] has two parts. The upper part is a primitive ideograph for "divide," though it looks the same as the character for "eight." The lower part is the pictograph for "mouth." However, these two elements have only phonetic significance."

As for the Tibetan shell mentioned by another poster, yes that area was underwater once - but not because of a flood. The mountains of Tibet, like many others, were formed over millions of years as the continental plates crashed together and forced the land upwards.

Answer 4

There are different flood/apocalypse-myths from different cultures that differ depending on their experience. The norse, for example, have the coming of the ice with Ragnarok, which makes sense considering their proximity to the Pole.

That Noah's story, like most myths, is probably based on something that actually happend is likely, but who can really say what. It might be describing the flooding of the Med. basin, the end of the last ice age, when ocean levels rose overnight by some 300ft in places, or maybe it was just a particularly bad flooding of the river one year. Bottom line, we place way too much faith in the individual myths instead of trying to find the common threads and/or historical basis for them.

Answer 5

sure it surpassed off. besides the undeniable fact that it grew to become into the 2nd flood pronounced interior the Bible. the 1st worldwide flood is being defined as protecting the Earth at a tremendous intensity on the 1st day of introduction in Genesis. it is the flood that drowned the final prehistoric era of dinosaurs and grew to become into the beginning up of the 1st modern-day era of evolution. Noah's flood surpassed off some years later and is the place the super quantities of water got here from that John West says weathered the Sphinx in Egypt and not wind and sand. The Sphinx and the tremendous Pyramids spent a short volume of time on the sea floor. The date of 2304 B.C. might desire to very nicely be a correct wager.

Answer 6

Noah's flood was the second world wide flood in The Bible. The first taking place thousands of years before on the fist day of Genesis which killed the last prehistoric era.

Answer 7

what a load of crap, the story of Noah is fiction, just like the rest of the bible, this story was probably inspired by a large flood of a river, and i agree that getting that many animals (it was 7 of clean and 2 of dirty i think) onto a boat would be impossible, i doute even to-days boats are that strong, and they are made of iron, and there is no way you could build a boat out of wood that would be big and strong enough to hold millions of animals and food for them, it would break!

And the bible is not a real source, it is fictional!!! how in the world can any one with even one once of intelligence think that anything in it is possible!!!!!????????

Answer 8

Yeah you're right the flood was only a local flood, affecting only Noah's people, as the Quran says:

We sent Noah to his People (with the Command): "Do thou warn thy People before there comes to them a grievous Penalty." (Quran 71:01)

Answer 9

Before you jump to conclusions read both sides of the story. Once you have conclusive evidence then make your opinion.

"If Noah's flood were merely local, Jesus' comparison of the judgment on the people in Noah's time to the coming judgment of all men (Matthew 24:37-39) makes no sense. Jesus Himself makes it clear that Noah's flood was, indeed, a worldwide flood. "

http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/BibleStudyAndTheology/Discipleship/Noah-WholeEarth.aspx

Answer 10

The sign in chinese for deluge is a boat with eight people in it.
Explain that !