The Ark ratios mean nothing. Ship building factors in dozens of factors depending on material, style and many many other factors. 3 ratios do not give much information at all. The apologetics site was able to conclude the ship was reasonably safe. In this time ship building with what materials people had was already mastered to the highest degree for their limitations. 3 ratios do not demonstrate anything except the author could build a "reasonable safe" vessel. It does not provide evidence for animal magic, gods flooding the Earth.
We do however have evidence that all biblical myths were borrowed from older cultures. Including Noah, creations stories, Yahweh vs sea monsters and so on.
There may be accurate details of ship building in a Greek Epic. This does not mean Zeus or whatever gods are in the story are real.
This is the 3rd time I have explained this.
Size and shape of the ark -
Your source is an apologetics site. Not a historical site on the history of ship building? Ship building was a highly important craft in these days. The Greek navy had ships that could outperform any others from the time and the Persians had massive battle ships. If you look into ship building 3 ratios do not come even close to telling the picture of how well crafted a ship actually is. They clearly knew how to build reasonable safe ships and those 3 ratios were involved at that time. Who cares? Does not prove a world flood, a god flooding Earth, the reality of one nations God?
The flood evidence you provided was animals in permafrost which I debunked as being from a flood.
Mammals are found in permafrost dating 10,000 years old as well as 50,000 years old and older.
The flood was not 40,000 years long. So clearly even if there was a flood not all the animals in the permafrost were put there because of a flood. So since we know it does not require a flood to get animals into a permafrost then it is no longer evidence for a flood.
I already explained this. Two times.
Also ALL geologists demonstrate many lines of evidence that there never was a worldwide flood. They have investigated this for decades. Zero evidence. So, no flood.
But if the entire scientific community is on consensus - no world flood - and you evidence is a myth from ancient cultures then you have lost.
There are thousands of shared myths. One popular myth is about a boy with plant-like plumes on his head who plays with a child and then asks the child to kill him and bury him and take care of the site. Of course then trees grow giving the boy and his family food from the tree. This myth pops up in an unusually large number of cultures. But do you think there may have been boys walking around with plumes growing out of their heads who grew into fruit trees? No. Myths do not suggest a literal event. The flood story is about change and starting new phases of life. So shared myths mean shared symbolism not shared magical stories.
A common source - YES. Is it a allegorical fiction - YES.
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Psalms 104 - your evidence is a passage in a myth? Sorry, as biblical archeologist William Denvers says the OT is not historical. These are stories.
But we already know these mountains were not caused by flood. If you think because a myth says something which means the consensus of all modern geologists and related scientists are wrong then you are living in a fantasy world.
Mountains are not caused by water. Stories about how the earth changed in a wildly fictitious and clearly made-up religious mythology is not evidence. Demonstrate this God exists first.
Clams - As scientists know, when the continantia shifts and ice ages caused mountain formation some items from the sea were deposited on mountains. Or sea floors were pushed up to be mountains. Again, no evidence for this flood, not an option.
Chinese myth -
Yes they had a flood myth also, written around 2200 BCE. The "8" in Chinese characters referring to Noah sounds like some Christian propaganda, it looks like it just might be that:
Noah's Ark
All of those other Gods are also myth. Some of the impregnations in the stories are no different than what happened to Mary, a divine pregnancy. Yahweh interacted with Mary in some magic way and gave her an offspring.
In the Persian religion where much of the OT came from Zoroaster appeared as a leaf which a cow ate and then the mother Dughda drank the milk from the cow and was pregnant. She gave birth to (guess who?) a messiah son who would save the world in 3 incarnations or 3 comings.
In Enoch angels are having sex with humans also.
Of course the fictional story is going to paint a grim picture of the world right before the sky-god destroys humanity? What would you expect? This is typical myth writing.
But when anthropologists and archeologists look at other cultures around this time we see the same practices, burying of the dead, a strong religious system of deities, prayer, sin forgiveness through magic blood atonement (animal sacrifice), strong family values, farming/trading, legal systems mixed with myths. The world wasn't all crazy like the one Israelite myths says it was. That is for dramatic effect. None of the stories in the OT have shown to be accurate.
And science confirms there was simply no world flood. Fiction is not a source. The world serpent story was also popular. No serpent flying around the Earth. None of this is even remotely evidence for a myth being actually true.
