Did Noah really do all that?

Question

Did he go to the north pole and get a couple of polar bears, to Peru and get a pair of llamas and to Australia and get some platypus, wallabies, king browns, goanas........ then onto New Zealand and get some Kiwis..... etc
and this was all before anyone else knew about these places.
He musta been one smart cookie. I like that religion. I think I'll have three, put Islam here, Christianity there and Judiaism just sprinkle it all over the place.
Ha yashvan sheli!

Answer 1

find it stunning that people actually believe that the Judeo-Christian god ordered the flood.

It is a FACT that the story of the flood is a SUMERIAN myth.

The jews were first mentioned in history as a people living in Mesopotamia, and were first mentioned in around 1800BC.

They were a wandering tribal people, living as travelling workers etc amongst the highly advanced Mesopotamians (Sumerians and Assyrians/Babylonians) whose land it was.

In 19th century archaeologists and historians started to decipher literally millions of clay tablets. Amongst these was the story of the flood, dating to around 3000bc, LONG before the hebrews were even mentioned in history, and remember writing was invented in mesopotamia in around 3300bc.

The story was a sumerian legend, written in Sumerian, using the Cunieform written script. The god causing the flood was EA, chief of the sumerian gods, and Noah was actually called Nu, or Atrakhasis by the Assyrians/Babylonians.

The Ark would have to have been 1000 times larger than the titanic to do al that! lol!

PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THIS STORY AS FACT, AND BELIEVE THE CONTINENTS DIDNT EXIST AT THE TIME ARE PLAIN STUPID!

Answer 2

Yep.

Huge flaw in the creationist theories there. Not to mention the fish thing; if the whole planet was covered in water for so long it would all have been diluted in to a cool brackish medium. And that should have brought about the destruction of every other aquatic biotope and all life forms within them, from the warm coral reefs to the bitterly cold arctic/pelagic regions, and from the darkest ocean depths to the shallowest of duck ponds.

I've yet to a hear a single workable explanation for any of this.

Answer 3

No, he just stole the idea from Gilgamesh, and took the credit for it.

Ok, so since you say Noah, I will play nice, and keep my observations to the Old Testament version, and not bring in the earlier texts...

So let's set the scene, Gen 6:5 God decides to kill all living things because the human imagination is evil. Later (8:21), after he kills everything, he promises never to do it again because the human imagination is evil. Go figure.

So who does he choose to save some of his handiwork Gen 6:9 "Noah was a just man and perfect." He didn't seem so just and perfect when he was drunk and naked in front of his sons (9:20-21).

Has there ever been a just person?

gen 6:11-13 "Behold, I will destroy them with the earth."
God was angry because "the earth was filled with violence." So he killed every living thing to make the world less violent. Huh?

Noah's ark is 450 feet long. The largest wooden ships ever built were just over 300 feet, and they required diagonal iron strapping for support. Even so, they leaked so badly that they had to be pumped constantly. Are we to believe that Noah, with no shipbuilding knowledge, was able to construct a wooden ship longer than any that has been built since?

but not only was the ark too big to be seaworthy, it was far too small to be able to contain the earth's millions of plant and animal species, let alone the food!

God tells Noah to make one small window (18 inches square) for ventilation. I don't know about you, but that is a lot of frightened animals cooped up in a small space for 40 days, and just one fresh air hole?

Poor Noah must be confused. First God tells him Gen 6:19 to bring two of "every living thing of all flesh" onto the ark. Later (7:2-3) God says to bring seven pairs of some animals (the "clean beasts" and the fowls).

Noah asked God, “what about the fish?” God said, “they can swim.” Noah said, “but if the flood is fresh water, all of the salt water fish will die.” “If the flood is salt water, all of the fresh water fish will die.” God said, “Shut up.”

gen 7:4 God repeats his intention to kill "every living substance ... from off the face of the earth." But why does God kill all the innocent animals? What had they done to deserve his wrath? It seems God never gets his fill of tormenting animals. Noah enters the ark 7 days before the flood in Gen 7:7-10, but wiats until it rains in 7:11-13?

What was really amazing was that (7:13-14) All of the animals boarded the ark "in the selfsame day."

So Noah and his sons built the ark and marched every species on earth aboard in pairs and sevens. Then God flooded the earth and Noah watched the bubbles come up as all the men, women, children, and babies sank beneath the water and drowned. Glub, glub…all creatures great and small, the Lord God drowned them all.

some parts of genesis say they were in there for 40 days and 40 nights (7:17) other part for 150 days (7:24 8:3)

Bodies were still being pulled daily from the aftermath of the Tsunami in Indonesia one month after the event, in fact they were retrieving 1,000 bodies a day from the sea in the worst hit areas.

(Gen 7:19-20)
The flood covered the highest mountain tops (Mount Everest?) with fifteen cubits to spare. Where did all the water come from? Where did it all go? Why is there no evidence of such a massive flood in the geological record?

It went on for another four weeks - that's a huge potential health risk for Noah when he leaves the ark., let alone the fact that the salt water has now ruined all the soil, so what were the herbivores eating after they left the ark?

Answer 4

there is a lot of evidence to say that the landmass was clumped in one place preflood so the animals could come to noah (as the bible says rather than noah going to collect the animals) Genesis 6 v 20

the bibical account says during the flood that the waters of the deep came forth (genesis 7 v 11) as well as it raining for 40 days and 40 nights

they were in the boat for almost a year whilst waiting for the floods to subside enough for them to leave the ark

also gen 10 v 25 speaks of the earth being divided (this could refer to a geographical dividing of the tectonic plates)

and you were doing a good job at asking an intelligent question until you got to the 'smart cookie' comment

i have a website below that could help if you are interested in further research

Answer 5

Noah for a woman? Sorry, yet that's particularly no sturdy. save it for in case you have a boy. you're on the superb music with Grace. Leah Grace is particularly, and prefer Noah that could be a Biblical call.

Answer 6

I'm a muslim,could it be that the land mass on earth was bigger back then?and after the flood the land mass became smaller.For the animal theory,what if noah just grap which ever animals in sight in the time given by God and during the flood the rest of the animals on Earth died off and this is the remainder of the animal that noah collected.And in time passed by this animals doesn't sit still and wander off.Just look at Michael jackson,from Africa he wander off into america,now he look pale and white.Somebody should tell him to eat more food with black oyster sauce, poor guy.

Answer 7

I heard a theory once that only part of the earth flooded (obviously the part where noah lived) and therefore, he only collected the animals that lived in his part of the land. Because of limited geographical knowledge, Noah et al. assumed the whole earth had flooded when in fact only a small portion had, so the theory goes......

Answer 8

Noah and his three sons built the Ark. When the time was right, Almighty God sent the animals TO Noah. But yes, all those animals who entered the Ark were cared for and fed by Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their three wives.

Answer 9

Did Shakespeare really write all that poetic stuff about the contemporary murderous, egotistical and adulterous lives of leaders, politicians and kings because of what he saw in his imagination?

Answer 10

No of course not. It's allegorical, like the rest of the Old Testament. It's a series of stories designed to be guide as to how we should live our lives.