I have studied the geology of several countries plus reading the Palaeontology journals, Science, Nature, Natural History, Discovery, Scientific American, the Journal of the British Natural History Museum (London). There is no scientific evidence of a Global Flood. No scientist has shown such evidence unless they tamper with data very severely. What they propose as evidence always is explained in scientific terms that can be demonstrated in a deliberately deceptive slight of hand.
There was no internal source for the 2.5 billion cubic Kilometres of water necessary to flood the top of Mt. Everest 8 Km high. I could not come from Earths crust or between crust and mantle. Just under the thin crust is red hot magma. What little water seeps through the crust is boiled and erupted out in Geysers and Ocean floor hot springs. No 2.5 billion cubic Kilometres could have existed in the thin crust of the Earth or beneath it. There is super hot molten magma. There was no canopy over the Earth that would hold a reservoir of water the area of Earth and 5 miles (8Km) thick. This would not have been able to float in the atmosphere. It would have fallen immediately as it was formed.
Where could that 2.5 billion cubic Km (900 million cubic miles) of water go afterwards?
How did Noah bring animals from distant Australia, New Zealand, South America, North America, Polar Regions, Madagascar, Hawaii, or Tahiti to Mesopotamia; and then get them back from Mount Ararat to Brazil, Patagonia, Australia, Tasmania, North America, Madagascar etc. Because no bones of those animals are found along the trail back and none found before the Magic Flood on the land along the way. Kangaroos evolved in Australia in isolation. They are still only in Australia. They are not in Africa, Asia, Europe, or Cleveland. They would have to have been brought from Australia to the Middle East and back from Eastern Turkey to Australia across thousands of miles of Ocean.
The Ark had no sails, no oars, no engine or propeller, and no nuclear power drive. How could such a merely passively floating boat circle the Earth twice in picking up animals and taking them back?
Please have an open mind about those myths and you will see that they are childish and illogical. There was never a Global Flood. There was never a time in which some geological layer was not desert at the time of the Magical Global Flood. If you believe the time of the flood was 2349 BC, that is rubbish because Scottish/Pictish, Irish, and Pre-Celtic Tara People ancestors were living in Crannogs and stone houses on Scara Brae in the Orkneys and Northern Scotland from 4000 BC through to 400 BC with no interruption of habitation. They didn't notice the Flood, nor did the Egyptians busy building pyramids from 3200 BC and other statues over a 3000 year period. No flood interrupted the work on Egyptian statues and pyramids, or the building of the Celtic passage graves at Clava Cairns near Inverness.
The fact is that certain animals are found only in certain isolated location. For example, Kangaroos have never been found outside of Australia and New Guinea. Certain species of fresh water fish have been found nowhere outside of the Amazon Basin. Lemurs are only on the Island of Madascar in the last 20 million years. Emus, Koalas, Marsupial wolves, wombats, and marsupial lions are found only in Australia. Many other animals while on the Eurasian mainland are found only at great distances from Palestine, Mt. Ararat, and Mesopotamia. These include: polar bears, tapirs, aardvarks, Meercats, Irish Elk, Reindeer/Caribou, Moose, and the Ice loving Macaques of Northern Japan. There are a few thousand other animals found far from Mesopotamia.
These represent animals never found in Mesopotamia/Ararat. How did Noah and his sons gather all of these animals from the far reaches of the left and right hemispheres and polar areas? How did they fit in the approximately 3.8 million species into the Ark if it was the wee little boat described in Genesis? How could they store enough food for the entire long journey aboard the tiny boat? When it landed on Mt. Ararat how did they return all of these animals back to their places of origin? They would have needed to move the Ark from eastern Turkey to either the Black Sea or to the Persian Gulf, a very huge task of portage of such a boat. Then that boat, without sails or engine would have to sail thousands of miles east and west, after getting unstuck from that Turkish Mountain. Then it would need to sail around to Northern Europe and Scandinavia, south to Australia, New Zealand, and Tierra del Fuego. This would be without sails, without a diesel or nuclear engine, and without oars or oar portals for rowing.
How did they transport the:
- Koalas, Wallabies, Kangaroos, Wombats, Marsupial wolves, Emus, and Marsupial lions back to the island continent of Australia?
How did they get the Kiwis back to N. Z.?
How did they get Giant Tortoises back to Galapagos?
Pangolins (scaled ant eaters), aardvarks, wart hogs to South Africa
Tapirs, Jaguars, sloths, prehensile tailed New World Monkeys back to South America
Armadillos, Alpacas, Llamas, and Rheas (flightless birds) to remote South America
Lemurs back to Madascar
Orang-utans and (Hobbit man) H. floresiensis back to Indonesia/Borneo
Siamangs, Gibbons, Gorillas, Chimps, and Bonobos back to Africa
Indian Elephants back to India
African Elephants back to Africa
Pronghorns, Rocky Mountain sheep, Canada Lynx to North America
Delicate fresh water tropical fish back to the far interior of the Amazon River
Etc. Etc.
If you dump 2.5 BILLION Km ³ of water and not upset the aquatic life. It this huge amount of water was fresh water, the dilution would kill the salt water fish, shellfish, crustacean, cephalopod, sponge, and reef building organisms, no more sharks, no more barracudas, no sports marlins, no more Chesapeake or New Orleans tasty crabs, no more New England Lobsters (Lawbstahs.)
If you dump 2.5 Billion Km ³ of saline waters, you kill all of the important fresh water fish in the Amazon basin, the Canadian-American Great Lakes, the thousands of fish rich Canadian and American fresh water lakes, Scottish/Irish/Scandinavian/Alpine lakes, the many great river systems around the world, and the 400,000,000 amphibians of the world who can only breed in fresh water.
Not to belabour this but the point is that Noahs Flood makes no sense. It violates so many natural laws the list would require a separate posts.
In brief where does one suddenly acquire 2.5 Billion Km ³ of water from anyplace short of the Jupiter/Saturn Ice Moons? There is not 1% of that volume in the thin Earth Crust or in the atmosphere as clouds. Clouds dense enough to hold 2.5 billion Km ³ of water dispersed in vapour and small droplets would block out ALL sunlight. So pre-flood times would have been in long Nuclear Winter with temperatures -40 º to -150 º making the Earth a frozen wasteland.
Finally departing from the scientific rebuttal, the Noah Story is the most immoral and unjust story ever written. A violent God with rage attacks murdering millions of innocent babies, children, pregnant women (each counts as two murders now), perhaps as many as trillions of animals from the small to the large. What did the non-human animals have to do with SOME men sinning, and shagging other poofs? Why not just strike them down. He invented the term "overkill" with that story.
I fail to understand how people claim to believe any of the story. Can anybody explain to me why it is so important to believe a story of obvious rubbish and horrifying Divine cruelty? Is belief in this mythical flood necessary for salvation. I thought you only had to accept the deification of Jesus and accept him as Lord and Saviour. It is so irrational that its wide belief in the USA after long have been read as metaphor in the Industrialised advanced nations.
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