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The fact that you are able to reply to me on a device that operates according to scientific principles is proof you are wrong.
For doubt, there's the aforementioned Carolina Bays. These are depressions in the Eastern US that tend to become swampy and seem to follow a pattern, but there doesn't seem to be a cause that's clearly understood. For misinterpretation, anything. To use an example from the state of Georgia, about midway in the state you can find boulders sitting in fields. "Aha!" some geologists said. "That shows there were glaciers there at one time, and the marks on these boulders prove it." Except it turned out the marks were due to logging chains being attached to them, and the glacier theory was dropped. That the boulders are there is clear for all to see. How they got there is the point of interpretation.
Ok .. so your belief in the existence of miracles, is to keep alive your faith in scriptures.
All this is well written, but what's been in the back of my mind came to the forefront: I've seen water on top of ice. The obvious solution to this is that the ice was attached to something that didn't allow it to rise. What seems like a frivolous example is when water from dripping outside faucets at school froze to the asphalt and continued to flow on top (and we boys would get into trouble for sliding across it). The water couldn't go under the ice, and so it flowed across the top. The result was that the ice didn't float on the water, which is would have had the water been able to get under it.
"If" it actually happened, it would be physically impossible for the Earth to keep a flood that covered the earth a secret.
The ice you described was adhering to a surface to
Science has a placebo effect. They have the power of suggestion and the power of positive thinking. Miracles are based on what God is able to do for us. To restore us to His plan and purpose. When the doctors have done all they can do for you. That is the time to pray and go beyond what man can do apart from God.
There is no secret. Noah's flood was local from our perspective. But for Noah, it was his world that was flooded. Noah's flood is an archetype of the worldwide flood that took place at the time Pangea was destroyed. Esp the part about how the widows of Heaven were open. There was a big change in the atmosphere at the time so a lot of the water above fell to the earth.
Yes they are real people with real DNA. Not just Noah but all the animals on the Ark have DNA. Science has put a lot of work into the study of how civilization spread from the Middle East to Europe. All the animals and all the food that we read about in our Bible that Noah saved on the Ark. Sheep, Goats, Olives, Barley, and so on.
You missed a keyword: Miracles. We have to go beyond what Science can do. Remember the women in the Bible that spent all her money and never found a cure? Until she found Jesus and He healed her and did not charge her. If Science had the cure and all the answers, we would have no need for Jesus and the Bible.
And that's not quite what science has found.
I do not know the exact details. It rained for 40 days and nights. The water continued to rise for 150 days until the Mountains or some say hill tops were covered. Then it was another 150 days before the top of Mount Ararat was uncovered. So that adds up to 340 days. Still, Noah was in the ark for another 30 days for a total of 370. So it was over a year before Noah was able to find dry ground.
