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Assuming a depth of five miles, it rained & geysered @ the rate of about 7 feet per day for a total of five months over the entire earth the year of the Flood.
At the height of the Flood, as seen from space, the earth would have looked something like this:
The earth is not a closed system -- did you mean the hydrological cycle on the earth?Too bad the Earth is a closed system and there is not enough water in that system to support 7 ft of rainfall everywhere (or even in one place).
You put the 'supposedly' in the wrong half of the sentence.There is also the fact that civilizations thrived in different parts of the planet while all this was supposedly going on.
The earth is not a closed system -- did you mean the hydrological cycle on the earth?
You put the 'supposedly' in the wrong half of the sentence.
Shouldn't it go after 'also'? or were you there?
Right -- and I'll be glad to sell you a coin dated BC 1050, if you're interested.There are relics from those civilizations that date through that time period.
I'd say that would be a little hard, since the Shang Dynasty came from Noah's great-grandson, and the Maya civilization came from Noah's son.Shang Dynasty
Maya civilizationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization
I'd say that would be a little hard, since the Shang Dynasty came from Noah's great-grandson, and the Maya civilization came from Noah's son.
So let me get all of this straight by summarizing your arguments:
- The ark is larger on the inside than on the outside (to fit over 60,000 animals in at least 41,00o cubic meters)... or else some kind of evolution had to take place to account for all these species existing today (even though evolution is a lie).
- It's apparently tougher than any other structure or ship ever constructed up until WWII. We never needed anything that strong since, even though it would have come in handy during, say, in 1776.
- The flood itself consisted of more water than is even on earth (5 miles above sea level?).
- There's nowhere near enough water on earth to entirely cover earth in it's current geographical configuration, so that's why all the features of earth went smooth to accommodate the flood... Even though a global-smoothing would probably be more worth mentioning than a flood, scripture left this out for us to "logically deduce".
- Noah hired contractors to import redwood from a region that was still largely undiscovered by the people of his region. Some how transported these massive logs either through the mountains of what is now Pakistan, or maybe on a boat larger than the ark itself through the Philippines and across the Indian Ocean, or rode the logs themselves.
- Noah did this at an age that exceeds our current life span by several times.
- Today, ships that size have to be made out of titanium on order to be rigid enough to even hold together, but physics was different back then, and you could do it with wood. As long as you crowded the interior with a honeycomb pattern of massive redwood beams, and without taking away even more space inside this giant, wooden, miracle box to fit the animals, food, waste, family, secure gating to keep the animals from different regions of the world from killing each other, and one's bronze-age Game Boy (gotta bring something for the long trip).
- It's ridiculous that some TV show depicted Noah using bronze age tools to build a ship, because that would have been impossible, even though they only had bronze-age tools in the bronze age.
- This should all be taught in public schools.
Am I following so far?
I'd say that would be a little hard, since the Shang Dynasty came from Noah's great-grandson, and the Maya civilization came from Noah's son.
No -- I don't mind at all.According to you -- and you'll understand if we prefer to get historical facts from someone who doesn't proudly "wear [their] ignorance like a badge."
You tell me, Split Rock.All directly from the KJV1611 Bible... or are you speculating, again? I get confused sometimes......
No -- I don't mind at all.
By the time you get your "facts", get them straight, get them railroaded through peer-review, and get them printed before the historical revisionists challenge them, your "facts" should be obsolete.
You tell me, Split Rock.
No -- I don't mind at all.
By the time you get your "facts", get them straight, get them railroaded through peer-review, and get them printed before the historical revisionists challenge them, your "facts" should be obsolete.
Why are you throwing the question back at me? You have just recently stated that you are very specific about when you are speculating and when you are not. Just tell us if this is speculation, or the Inerrant Word of Almighty God. Is that hard?
I'd say that would be a little hard, since the Shang Dynasty came from Noah's great-grandson, and the Maya civilization came from Noah's son.
So I guess Noah's great-grandson must have moved in and supplanted the Xia dynasty which preceded the Shang and had developed from the Longshan culture after the longshan developed from the Yangsho culture which followed the Jiahu and Peiligang cultures. I wonder how some Hebrew moving in from the Middle East managed to found a dynasty among people who had been living there developing their own culture for thousands of years.I'd say that would be a little hard, since the Shang Dynasty came from Noah's great-grandson.
Hoping you don't mind if I jump in here. Of course 'fleshing out' the flood story is speculation and assumption. No one said it wasn't. You should know that no sane Christian would stake their salvation on belief in the absolute certainty that the flood story is 100 per cent true. If it is a grand metaphor that's ok. If true, that's even better. At this time in my knowledge and belief I believe it to be 100 per cent true. When Christ returns he will confirm it or reeducate us. In the meantime I enjoy building reasonable scenarios that 'speculate' on how it might have transpired.
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