Noah survived the flood in a boat....what happened to all the other people who had boats?

Question

Like the pirates. Arrrrr

Answer 1

Did you ever see "Waterworld"? Noah probably had a battle just like Kevin Costner, where he had to defeat the pirates and make their ship sink. But that got omitted from the Bible.

Answer 2

The water for the flood had 3 possible sources: the atmosphere, underground, or outer space.

If the atmosphere held enough water to raise sea levels above the peak of Everest, the air pressure would have been over 800 times what it is today. Boats wouldn't have protected the people. Not even nuclear powered submarines today can withstand it.

If the water came from underground, it would have been as hot as the steam released in volcanic eruptions. Boats won't protect you from being boiled alive.

If the water came from outer space, it would have been in the form of comets. Anyone who has watched Deep Impact or Armageddon knows just how little a wooden boat would help protect you from one comet impact, let alone the millions which would have been necessary for the flood.

Wooden boats would have provided no help whatsoever against such a world-covering flood. Either Noah had a magic boat which provided more protection than any starship in modern science fiction stories, or he could not have survived the type of flood described in the Bible either.

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Jolly Roger: Of course there isn't enough hydrogen today, but creationists can dismiss that argument by claiming that it went somewhere else after the flood. You really won't convince anyone with that line of thinking.

I feel that it is better to focus on just how unsurvivable such a situation would have been at the time. Rising water levels would have been one of the very least concerns to bother anyone trying to live through such a flood. The fact that the Bible doesn't mention any of the more important ones (like how Noah prevented his animals from being boiled alive on his wooden boat) is the real proof that the story is a myth.

Answer 3

You can't build a boat in 10 or 20 days... well maybe you can especially if you kept climbing - but the water would rise slowly in the initial days (larger volume to fill) so with a constant rate of rain fall, you might have have longer to build your boat or raft.

Remember, it was 40 days and nights of rain and an undisclosed period before the waters receded.

Arrr, I be not lending a hand to either side, me thinks!

Consider: Unless the animals also included insects, most of them (like the cicada) would have perished in the immense pressure as would have most of the vegetation. It's extremely unlikely that trees not near the tree line, like olives, would have survived.

Scifiguy: there simply is not enough hydrogen on earth to produce that much water, not even by a long shot.

Answer 4

That's really an excellent question. Boats, rafts, a log to hold on to. There would have been millions of floating corpses. Why the heck did they all go to? There would have been animals who can swim. Did any survive? I wish I could think of other pertinent question at this moment; I'll work on it tomorrow.

Answer 5

I've never thought of that before. All I know is that they did die.

Perhaps they were killed in the massive storm going on? Most boats back then were quite small and (by our standards) weak...

I don't know. Do you know what a pirate's favorite vegetable is? An AAAAAARR-tachoke.

Answer 6

They make a picnic in a Giant Volcano of Beer until the water reseed.

RAmen !

Answer 7

Maybe they made the mistake of bringing the carnivorous Animals. Or maybe their God's were more Land based.

Answer 8

They starved because they didn't have unicorns and crocoducks on board to eat like Noah did.

Answer 9

Arrrrrrrr matey, that scalawag Noah stole all of their rum and then sent them to Davey Jones' locker.

Answer 10

the pirate ship on spongebob could fly, so there's your answer.