Noah and the flood?

Question

I saw a show on the history channel that there are something like 175 cultures that have a "great flood" story in their distant past - the historian (a non-Christian) estimated the time of these stories to be around 3000BC and that it was caused by an asteroid

could be Noah's flood and the Bible is the account of what happened to the Israelites during that disaster
what do you think

Answer 1

Very cool show wasn't it...it's another theory to throw into the basket...I'll keep watching...sooner or later they will find that boat or Noah's tomb...

Answer 2

the 2 0f every animal from around the world is the place where the Noah story becomes fiction. There was no room on the ark for many more animals than was know to the small area of the middle east. The animals of afica and the americas would have starved in a year it took to ride out the storm and the ark would not have held them either. The Ark by the way would not have held even 2 of the variest insects from around the world. The story doesnt even make sense and the rainbow did we not have water and light together until the flood not a chance the rainbow was here at waterfalls and when it rained as the sun shone. Noah and the flood is a story that is filled with errors and lies told to entice.

Answer 3

without the flood, there would not have been a mediterranean sea.
Actualy there are a lot of historical text, studies, geological investigations, and other accounts (religious ones included) that support the flood theory.

If you want to read up on some of this, try:
Velikowsky- cataclysms of the earth
the whole series by Zacariah Sitchin, which deals with aliens as well- suffice to brief that the earth was a mining outpost, and the miners got tired of mining, so they invented/engineered a breed of slaves to do the work for them. later some of them were enlightened and transported to the mother planet and back. started in Africa. Olmecs of Mexico were afrikaans, and most of the cultural centers of Central America were formally mining towns, built around metallurgical refining that was not the technology of later inahabitants. besides, how could someone lift megalithic blocks of rock to the top of the mountain without tricks by an alien machine? Even the cranes of the modern world have a limit which doesn't even get close to what was accomplished way back when.
Another curiosity is that the genetic stock of humans on the modern earth can be traced back ancestry-wise, to an afrikaan woman 350,000 years ago. This doesn't mean she was black, but from her DNA and genes, every race on the face of the planet has a rootstock in here.
there are others to look for. Mounds were located, Ohio and Kentucky area, that had tiny stairs and passages, and the humans that inhabited them had to have been 15 inches tall.
Electric batteries were a feature of ancient Iraq. Electric lights with extension cords were a feature that the Egyptians used in the pyramids- No soot mars the passages anywhere where the art is.
In archeaological digs in the Middle East, iran and irag region, a layer of fused sand glass has been located that is only caused by one thing- a nuclear explosion, dregding up the theory that the world has come to an end before, and what people you see walking around now, are the posterity of the survivors of the past holocaust and detonation.
The phoenicians had a map of Antarctica WITHOUT the ice, and modern scientists have confirmed the landforms under the ice to be correct.

Want some more neat books to read?
Secrets of the Pyramids
In Search of Exodus (located in Saudi Arabia)
No Stone Unturned
The Hieronymous Machine- this is really a quirk

Answer 4

History Channel does have soem iffy stuff now and again.

Keep in mind that hundreds of contemporary communities have had floods in the past 20 years as well, all over the world. People 3,000 to 5,000 years ago would nbe mistaken to treat these as a single global flood. Likewise, we should not leap to conclusions, trying to fit various flood stories of any point in the past to be a single flood.

Keep in mind, Egypt of the era you cite (among many others) has some reasonably detailed self-histories lacking such a flood from that era (aside from the annual flooding of the Nile itself, but this only affected lowlands).

The bible is an iffy (at best) record, and attempts to corroborate some of its more extraordinary events generally fall very far short.

Also, consider the sheer improbablility of Noah not only gathering two of each of billions of species that would have made the ark bigger than modern-day cities, and that he kept all predators from eating other species (but what did they eat?), and that each species then returned to distant/exotic lands leaving no trace that they had ever been to the Middle East (or any other likely area for Noah).

Answer 5

The Israelites were not around during the flood.
There are many different flood stories in the many cultures (not churches) around the world. Most are very similar to the Biblical account.

Answer 6

I think floods happen all the time. One hundred and seventy five cultures have flood stories because there were floods,not one flood. Who says that these stories are all about the same flood? I remember a flood happening when I was a child. It was impressive and awe inspiring. If I wrote about it and put it away somewhere and forgot it for a couple of thousand years anyone finding it might think it was a major world event.

Answer 7

Adam died age 930, year 930.
Noah born yr 1056, age 600, Gen.7:6; 9:28,29; at flood yr 1656, + 350 yrs.
Shem has 502 yrs life after flood Gen.11:!0; died yr 2158, 1908 B. C.
Abraham age 175 died, yr 2183, had Promised Land covenant yr 2083.
Moses age 80, Exo.7:7; 12:37,40,41; 430 yrs after covenant, yr 2513, with the heirs to be 40 yrs getting the law of the land and the law of God [ They are 215
years after Jacob age 130, Gen.47:9,11,28; 46:27; and 70 family members in
Egypt [ Rameses Egypt ], know as the israelites, Hebrews or twelve tribes of israel ], there will be 603,550 law keepers, givers and law enforcers yr 2553
at death of Moses, 1513 before Christ. Joshua crossed Jordan and was 14th day in New Year to end the 40 years after Exodus at yr 2554, 1512 B. C.

Answer 8

In it's billion year history, planet Earth has undergone many changes in weather....

I have no doubt about extreme climate changes in the past... that's a given. That some "stories" developed about surviving is also not a surprise.

But, to attach some sort of "god" thingie to it all is simply ridiculous. And, the "Noah's Ark" story is only fit for a fairytale for 5 year olds.

Answer 9

There is a good chance of a massive flood or tsunami at this time period.

The story of Noah, two of every animal etc., are in all likelyhood 99% false however.

You need to learn to separate truth from fact

Answer 10

Further, was not every culture, but cultures in particular areas-and further--the dating of this Indian Ocean asteroid impact--is more properly pre babylonian--and probably the origin of the Gilgamesh flood epic that the biblical authors plagarized into the Noah story.

Answer 11

yeah, I think that.
I saw the same prog, theres also stories in Greek mythology of someone stealing Apollo's chariot and burning the earth with it.
Though the Israelite myth comes from the older Gilgamesh myth and it was probably a disastrous but local flood of the Tigris and Euphrates.