The earth is a sphere.Not, if understood correctly how it happened.
The mean radius of the earth from center to mean sea level is about 3960 miles.
The radius of the earth from center to the top of Mt Everest iadds another 5.5 miles. say 3966 miles.
When you do your sums, you'll find that in order to raise the mean sea level that 5.5 miles so that it covers the top of Mt Everest, and allowing for the volume of land already above mean sea level, you'll need more than 1.1 billion cubic miles of water over and above the water presently on the earth.
Where is it?
And such a flood would necessarily have left a geological flood layer all over all continents and islands and the ocean floor, but there's no such thing there. Where is it?
And if all land animals bar a boatload were destroyed, there MUST be a genetic bottleneck detectable in the DNA of all species of land animal, all those bottlenecks dating to the date of the geological flood layer. Where are they?
Hundreds of millions of years of vegetable matter, in the main.2) Oil, gas and coal fields, the result of vast amount of sunken organic material mixed up in the flood sediments.
What authority do you rely on for that claim? Or did you make it up?4) Great glaciers, the result of cooling climate after the long rainy and cloudy period and death of everything on dry land.
They're all different. One hypothesis is that some of them represent the rising of the seas at the end of the last ice age around 11,000 years ago, but that made very little difference to Mesopotamia.5) The stories of it, in many cultures.
Which one? There have been hundreds, maybe thousands of them, spread among the various races of the world.6) The bottleneck in human genome.
Even if it is true that the story appeared at that time in Mesopotamia, it does not mean the story didn't exist with the ancestors of Jews before that. And I have no reason to believe Bible God appeared only 2000 years later.
It seems to me that you don't understand what I say. In Biblical point of view other gods exists, but they are not true Gods, which is why it can be said, there is no other God, but there are many things that are called gods.
The people who wrote the bible wrote in the bible that the earth is flat, and immovably fixed at the center of creation, and that the sun moon and stars go round it, and that the sky is a hard dome you can walk on and to which the stars are affixed such that if they come loose they'll fall to earth.Sorry, I don't accept baseless claims.
I've already referred you to this list of bible quotes setting out exactly that position, but here it is again: >Gravitational waves in Newton theory are 4-th order, in Einstein's are 2-nd!!!<. Please read it this time and then we can discuss it.
If you have any bible quotes that say the earth is spherical, and orbits the sun, and display an understanding of gravity and modern cosmology, the concept of heliocentry, gravity, orbits, stars, deep space, galaxies, the expanding universe &c, please set them out in your reply too.
Here's a link to a place to start so that you can understand the evidence and the reasoning from that evidence ─ >Tectonics - Wikipedia<.Sorry, I don't believe that.
Unless we have evidence that X did in fact exist, we have no basis for asserting that it did exist. Simple as that.Not having evidence of something, doesn't necessary mean it didn't exist.
Because humans lived largely in the wild ─ including in caves, where evidence of very ancient habitation by humans has been found. These would necessarily have been hunter / fisher / gatherer styles of life. For a review of the earliest known human structures in stone (ie capable of enduring) you may enjoy reading this >10 Oldest Structures in the World (Updated 2024) - Oldest.org<if humans have existed over 200,000 years, why no evidence of human culture from all of that time?
Note that the god of the bible doesn't appear on the scene till c. 1500 BCE.
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