So around 2300 BC, according to the bible, the world flooded (Which couldn't happen because there is not enough water on earth for that to happen).
The Bible indicates that the flood occurred around 2369BCE.
For almost five centuries after Abel’s death, no one is mentioned as a faithful servant of the true God. On the contrary, ungodly conduct had become the norm. It was during that spiritually degenerate time that Enoch appeared on the scene. Bible chronology sets his birth at 3404 B.C.E. Unlike his contemporaries, Enoch proved to be a man acceptable to God. Although he was surrounded by ungodliness, Enoch “kept walking with the true God,” Jehovah. It is not said that his predecessors—Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, and Jared—walked with God, so Enoch stood out as different, just like Noah.
The Bible account says that there were two sources of water that were used to flood the earth. One from underground and the other from above the earth's atmosphere...not just rainwater in natural precipitation, but form what is called "the floodgates of heaven". Since the earth was already covered with water and there was already more ocean than land, it is not a stretch that it could all go under if the volume was great enough. We have all seen what happens when flash flooding occurs....everything is swept away.
Did such a water canopy exist? It is safe to assume that if there
was a water canopy surrounding the earth at one time, then it would have acted as a barrier to excessive radiation and the climate on earth would have been more uniform...more temperate. It would have been ideal for lush forests to grow in places where they cannot grow now....so have scientists found such forests....? They have.
280-Million-Year-Old Fossil Forest Discovered in Antarctica
The human race had been in existence for some 1656 years when the flood occurred. Taking into account that humans lived much longer before the flood, (some up to almost a thousand years,) the earth would have accommodated a lot of people....enough for Enoch to have been persecuted by the descendants of very unrighteous men.
Only those on one boat survived to repopulate the earth (which is very unlikely because humans and all land based life would be horribly inbred).
That is an assumption based on what? Later genetic abnormalities associated with inbreeding?
God's laws on incest were not written until Moses gave them to Israel after their release from Egyptian slavery. (around 1513 BCE)
There were many of God's servants who were closely related and not once in that era closer to Abraham's time do we see a problem with genetics. Abraham was married to his half sister, Sarah and Lot's daughters had sons to their father. Isaac married his cousin Rebekah....as did Jacob who married his cousin Rachel. They broke no law of God at that time because it had not been written. The gene pool was still relatively free from problems associated with inbreeding closer to the time of creation. But as time went on the gene pool became more compromised by imperfection and God introduced a law forbidding sexual union between blood relatives.
Then, roughly around 2200-2100 BC, god confused peoples languages and scattered them around the globe. It doesn't add up. There are written records from civilizations going back to around 1500 BC. The only cultures that make note of a great flood are those in Mesopotamia.
As people migrated from Mesopotamia after the Flood, they carried accounts of the catastrophe to all parts of the earth. Thus, inhabitants of Asia, the islands of the South Pacific, North America, Central America, and South America have tales of this impressive event. The many Flood legends existed long before these people were exposed to the Bible. Yet, the legends have some basic points in common with the Biblical account of the Deluge.
Jesus believed that the Flood was a real event and he also believed that it was global. In his great prophecy about his presence and the end of this system of things, he likened those events to the time of Noah. (
Matthew 24:37-39) The apostle Peter also wrote about the floodwaters in Noah’s day:
“By those means the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water.” (
2 Peter 3:6)
If Noah was a mythical figure and a global flood a fable, the warnings of Peter and Jesus for those living in the last days would be meaningless. Instead of serving as a warning, such ideas would confuse a person’s spiritual senses and endanger his chances of surviving a tribulation greater than the global Flood. (
2 Peter 3:1-7)
Other cultures, specifically those on other continents have vastly different creation myths, are polytheistic, and their traditional histories have nothing in common with what's in the bible.
All have flood legends and humans surviving in a vessel. (see above) That could only happen if the events were true and that those who knew about the flood story from their relatives from that period, took it with them...the Bible explains why. (Genesis 11:1-9)
So that doesn't back up the bibles claims and timeline either. The creation stories in the bible are myths. Also, carbon dating isn't the only tool they have for dating things.
I do not believe that the flood was a myth, and carbon dating is used on artifacts to determine when they were used. The only other way to determine time periods is historically...after writing was invented and humans began recording their histories.
