2007-10-29 01:14:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
LMAO!!!
What do they teach kids today? I thought the biblical version of Noah and his ark was far fetched, but Katrina as a modern day equivalent is for lack of better words, retarded.
The bible version tells us that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, raising the sea levels 20 feet above the highest peak of land. Since this is the word of god, passed down to man and formed into the passages that make up the bible, it should be infallible... so if we take 20 feet above the highest peak literally, and use Mt. Everest, then that means the sea would have to have risen a total of 29,049 (29,029+20).
Now I don't know about you but that's a heck of a lot of rain... and without going to Harvard for a biology degree, I'm guessing that much fresh water from the rain, mixing with that much salt water from the ocean would be devastating to all marine life.
So close to 30,000 feet of water circling the globe... where did it all go? Surely it didn't fall off into space. If you take the diameter of the earth, increase it by 30,000 feet, I don't think it would have drained down into the planet's crust... cause as I said, that's an awful lot of water.
OK, now let's consider that maybe the bible made a mistake, or that there was no knowledge of Mt. Everest, and that the highest peak in that little corner of the "known world" was Mt. Ararat with a peak of 16,854... that still means 16,874 feet of water. While that may be close to half of Everest's water coverage, it's still a considerable ammount of water.
So if we take that figure, and divide it by 40, we get apporx. 422 feet. So that means it would have to rain 422 feet a day to reach the level indicated by the bible. If I did my math right, that's 211 inches per hour. 422*12=5,064. So 5,064 inches in 24 hours comes out to 211 inches per hour.
Hurricane Katrina had anywhere from 8-14 inches of rain, no where near the biblical proportions indicated by the bible.
Since hurricanes happen every year during the same time period, it's sad to think that someone in this day and age would consider them as a vindictive punishment by god. Whatever happened to logic and reason?
2007-10-29 01:42:57 · answer #1 · answered by Pitchy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While it may have been a large storm that prompted the ancient fable, it's quite clear that no divine intervention was involved in the Hurricane. It followed its course of development and movement according to all the known laws and the models predicted it pretty well.
So, to say that it was a modern 'ark' story, would imply that a deity annulled the laws of physics in order to kill and injure specific individuals. There is no evidence that supports that.
2007-10-29 08:25:52 · answer #2 · answered by Morey000 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What the hell?
No, it was not.
Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster which affected many many people, caused huge amounts of suffering and had NOTHING to do with god, sin, punishment or salvation.
Those poor people where at the wrong place at the wrong time. Sad, unfortunate, but true.
2007-10-29 08:20:10 · answer #3 · answered by HP 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, it wasn't. It was a natural disaster. Of course, if you believe in God, ultimately He is responsible for everything and must have His own reasons. But I still see no relation with the ark's story.
2007-10-29 08:28:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, but i do feel that it is part of all the rest of the terribly bad weather we are experiencing now, as prophesied in the bible. the bible says that life on earth will be like the days of noah when the end times begin, just meaning that people will be living in so much sin and people will be denying god everywhere. i see that all over the world, if you say you believe then your laughed at. and noah was laughed at too. i believe god's trying to get the attention of those who are yet to believe or accept him, but with noah, he destroyed the world and only noah's family lived, because they were the only believers left. he promised he would never destroy the world again with water, because it hurt him to watch all the people he loved die. but it will be destroyed with fire at armageddon, because all the people that will accept him will be with him, and the rest will go to their ultimate doom.
2007-10-29 08:35:17 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I think it's got more in common with the burning of Rome as Nero sat back unconcerned and amused himself.
2007-10-29 08:19:08 · answer #6 · answered by Murazor 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
that's was the Hand of God surly let us Know he is....plus that Fact most of USA has more disasters sense Bush has been President
2007-10-29 08:24:33 · answer #7 · answered by babo1dm 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
George w Bush as Noah ? I don't think so.
2007-10-29 08:17:43 · answer #8 · answered by fakesham43 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
God is in control of it all....there's no doubt about that.
Why He allowed Katrina to nearly destroy New Orleans remains a mystery........I can't explain it.
But He is sovereign.......and He can send messages in that way if He chooses to do so.
2007-10-29 08:17:43 · answer #9 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 3⤊ 6⤋
Still Insane......you crazy person......You are going to hell!!! :)
2007-10-29 12:35:18 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋