Noah's Ark??? Did it really happen??

Question

I recently watched a National Geographic episode on Noah's Ark. They clamed that it was impossible to the earth to be flooded as the bible clams. The show stated that if there was that much water on top of earth that air breathing creatures, who were above the water, would drowned just by breathing because there would be way to much water in the atmoshpere.

What are your thoughts about this???

Answer 1

3/4 of the earth is covered by water, not including the vast water table.
At least 1/8 of the 3/4 of land is covered with frozen water and thats melting.
So we will see in a sense....
Some people have lived on ships for years.
High altitudes expose evidence of a great flood I.E. petrofied forest, seashells on mountain tops etc...

I beleive there was a great flood, and the sun is hot enough to change the excess water into more atmosphere.
Maybe the atmosphere before Noah was 4o,ooo feet and now its 8o,ooo feet.
Could explain the rainbow theory and weather.
All in all the several combined gasses that
supports life has a non changing wieght value....
What could be lighter than the air?
If we added more air it would compress and turn to water it happens everyday.
How high would the atmosphere have to be before the air would compress into water?
As high as it is now...its a fact it rains everywhere.
Noah didnt have every mate of animal on the entire planet, only from his region.
Were there kangaroo in Noahs region or the plateapus or various snakes the bible strongly reccomends as mans enemy?
I doubt it very seriously where did they all come from if they all perished?
I would lean more to the mountains didnt get all the way covered as certain animals are from different locale.
Whats the highest Mountain in the world?
The highest mountain in the world is Mount
Everest at 29,000 feet.
If the entire earth was covered by water why didnt Noahs ark rest on this mountain
clearing up the big question?
Ararat is 16,945 feet.
Maybe we are looking in the wrong spot.
Theres at least 6 known mountains above
16, 945 feet in different areas of the world
the animals could of gone during a flood
clearing up why the animals succeded to live
on from different places.
The ocean was here from the beginning, so this would be the only real answer apart from it didnt happening at all.
The other part is the animals were created before man so they are everywhere where man supposedly started in one spot so what was recorded is from where man was at the time.
Gods intent was to destroy the wicked and what do you know man most likely started in that area not the animals.
Thats the picture i see.

Answer 2

The Bible shows human lineage back to Noah, and if it didn't happen, it would be difficult to know why the story has been found in so many other civilizations that don't seem to be connected. The Bible gives us what happened, other stories are spinoffs.
Anyone who tells you why it can't happen is speculating. How would they know? Like they thougt the astronauts were going to land in 20 feet of dust when they got to the moon but were surprised to find solid ground, people are not always right, and I find them especially not right when they try to contradict God's Word, the Bible. I know that many on this forum will hear about National Geographic and they will dismiss the Biblical witness on account of it, yet doesn't that make them guilty of the same ignorance they accuse Christians of? Will they do some in depth investigation of thier own to see that NG is right? No, but the story of Noah just can't be right, right???
God had Moses record what happened, and all of man's recordable history starts there. I know there are some Christians, who are also scientists, that think perhaps the flood was humungous but local. They believe the story, just in a more limited sense, without doing any harm to the text. I tend to think the Bible conveys a whole earth scope to the disaster (which may explain things like: why there are shark fossils in Bakersfield California, and why the Grand Canyon is so massive).

Either way, Jesus believed it happened, and I'm with Him. You?

Answer 3

I'm not too sure about Noah's Ark being true, but I think that early history shows of a huge flood without question. Some of the earliest writings of man, such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, describe such a flood. From what I've read, I think that just about every culture has an account of a great flood in both religious and historical documents, from the Japanese to the Sumerians. The story of Noah and his ark may not be true, but a great flood really happened. I don't think it was global, but it was definitely a flood so devastating that early historians wrote about it throughout the world.

Answer 4

National Geographic is right. That biblical flood would catastrophically alter the biosphere and result in a mass extinction of both land and sea animals. It would takes millions of years for the earth to become rich with life again. Noah's Ark is a myth thought up by men who didn't understand earth science. I don't know how any intelligent adult can think the Noah's Ark story is fact.

Answer 5

Don't forget the character of the earth's surface was different when Pangea was there. Millions of tons of water had quite an impact. The idea was to make Earth a gardenlike place over a period of time and the water would decend gradually. Circumstances forced it to all come down at once.

Answer 6

Since there are universal flood legends on all continents (including North and South America) there were clearly one of more significant floods during man's existence on the planet. It's part of community memory.

Adapting more ancient legends to fit the paradigm of the history of the Hebrew nation is an oft-repeated pattern in the Bible.

Answer 7

Hi,
You will see all kinds of answers in this forum both for and against the flood in Noah's time. You might find it interesting that Jesus spoke about the "Days of Noah" and compared them to the times we are now living in. It was also interesting to know that he (Jesus) states that they took no notice until the flood swept them all away. If in fact Jesus was God's Messiah, and he spoke of it, then way are people so quick to dismiss it as scientific fact that it didn't happen? Yes, as humans we are pretty smart, but are smarter than the person that claims to have created this world? We haven't even scratched the surface of knowledge and are all standing in line to claim our Doctorates like proud little kids just potty trained. Is it just a story? Just a tale? Just a Fable? All I know is Jesus spoke of it, and if he says it was so, then who am I to argue with my Lord and Savior?

Answer 8

Honestly, probably not. Now could there been a regional flood that he thought in all earnest was world wide? Sure. The Savannah's flooded all the time. Most religions have a flood story. The Sumerians, the Greek, the Norse, the Christian/Jewish. Take them all as you will

Answer 9

Of course not.

You are talking about water covering Everest. That is over 29,000 feet, nearly the height that commercial airlines fly. It comes out to 6" a min. for 40 days and 40 nights. The vapor pressure would suffocate everything, not to mention the loss of heat that would be required to condense that much water.

The ark couldn't possibly hold all 2 million species of animals by weight OR volume. Heck the USS Enterprise couldn't do it. And they were supposed to have food for around 300 days on top of it. A wooden ship couldn't do that for the three species of elephants alone.

Answer 10

I saw that special, too. I've heard some of the arguments laid out before. There are many compelling reasons why the story is not literally true. The bottom line is no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary, some will NEVER change their belief that it happened exactly the way it is written in the KJ Bible. Some are very proud of that, as well.