If scientists believe in the Ice Age....why is the Great Flood such a stretch for them? Because it'sin the bib

Question

doesn't ice come from water?"

Answer 1

Ice ages are part of the observable geological history of the Earth.

The "great flood" is a common myth from the ancient Near East that got copied into the Hebrew Bible because it was an exciting story that could be used to scare people in connection with the power of the current deity.

The great flood originated in Sumerian and Babylonian heroic poetry long before the Jewish religion became organized, or the Torah written. Try an Internet search on "Epic of Gilgamesh."

The biblical flood was a popular idea in a time when most people lived their entire lives within eight miles of their place of birth, and had no idea of the size and shape of the Earth. If one understands what the Earth is and how it works, it becomes immediately obvious that not enough water exists on earth to account for a literal reading of the story of Noah's flood.

It was just a popular legend among ancient peoples. It was not real--just a story.

Answer 2

There is enough water that, if the rock and soil of this planet were a sphere (no mountains, valleys, hills, etc) the earth would be covered with water. The problem is explaining how all the mountains could be bulldozed into th eocean depths and then reformed in 40 days. How would all the species (assuming they all made it from distant continents to Noah's arc and they all fit on board) get split up between the various continents? There are too many things that would have to be quite different from our understanding of the way the world works for the story of the flood to be literally true.

Some believe that the great flood of the bible may refer to when the strait of Gibralter first broke thru, flooding what is now the Mediterainian with water from the Atlantic. A similar but much much smaller event would occur today if the land between the Dead Sea and the Mediterianian lowered enough. (the Dead Sea is below sealevel). To people who did not understand much about the earth (or even the continents beyond the Middle East) a flood of that magnitude would certainly seem like the whole world was underwater. It may also come from their "explanation" of why sea shell fossils are found on mountaintops. Today we know that this is because ancient ocean shores have been uplifted by geologic activity.

Answer 3

A Flood leaves a layer of sediment when it recedes,if a world flood occurred there would be a sediment layer around the world,,there is not

there is not enough water to cover the world


there are hundreds of flood stories, the bible ''god ''is just one tale to explain this event,there was a big flood in the area but not a world flood

yes ice comes from water but an Ice age glacier never covers the whole Earth

Answer 4

There is definite evidence of the various Ice Ages but absolutely NOTHING for a universal flood. The simple mathematics about a flood make the whole concept look idiotic. Firstly there would have had to be 4.55 BILLION CUBIC KILOMETERS of rain in 40 days to flood the whole earth so where did all that go after the flood. Secondly for the rain to have come from the mist as the bible says there is another small problem. When water condenses from vapour heat is released and the quantity of heat from that volume of water deposited in 40 days would have raised the surface temperature of the earth to about 1600 degC. so evaporating the water before it could flood.
Total fairy tales concocted by ignorant people to explain what they did not understand.

Answer 5

There just isn't enough water in the world to cover much of the surface of the land. You could flood the coasts but most of the land would still be sticking up.

So you could have a Great Flood, but not one that would threaten all life. The flood is OK, but Noah would have been wasting his time, and could just have moved the animals inland.

It's just like the universe being created in "7 days". That's OK, provided a "day" isn't the same as it is now.

Answer 6

Scientists don't "believe" in the ice age. They accept the fact of the ice age based on the geological evidence it left behind. Scientists don't "believe" in anything (at least, not when they have their scientist hat on). They do not "believe" things because they happen to be in someone's book of mythology. They accept propositions based on the observed evidence. There is overwhelming geological evidence for the ice age. There is zilch--- ZERO evidence of a global flood, EVER.

So the answer to your question is: EVIDENCE.