Why impossible? If I told you 100 years ago that the oxygen concentration in air was much higher in the days before Noah, you would have said impossible to that too.
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Yet many of the flood stories are quite different.
Yes, they do all share the fact that they are physically impossible and that all life would have died out on the surface of the Earth after the fact. But that is about it.
No they don't. They're all the same story told from different perspectives.
The fact that multiple civilizations have records of a great flood strengthens the case for the biblical account of Noah.
Why impossible? If I told you 100 years ago that the oxygen concentration in air was much higher in the days before Noah, you would have said impossible to that too.
Of course you have listed a tiny fraction of the countries that have a flood account. To name another tiny fraction in addition, China, Babylonia, Wales, Russia, India, America, Hawaii, Scandinavia, Sumatra, Peru, and Polynesia.
We live on a planet that has rain NOW. I can see that you have never read the Bible, because you would otherwise know that it had never rained until the flood.
That's something of a problem for the water cycle.
That's the Hopi flood story, and it is nothing like the Noah story.
He has to blindly rely on your apparatus and the method and rules you provide for testing, and even then he will only be experiencing the effects of the sun (photons).No, they can test the apparatus and the results for accuracy all on their own.
You are creating a strawman.Of course not, you have a dogma to protect so you have to deny the obvious. How do blind people read without the use of sight?
Enough with the strawmen!Unlike God, I can present objective evidence that radiowaves and x-rays exist even though we can't see them. So where is the empirical evidence for God?
Obviously as civilizations record and relay these events they are going to tell the stories not only in a way that makes sense to their own people but also glorifies their own people. They will insert their own people into the story and include aspects of their own lives to make the stories more relatable.
They are different stories. For example, some myths have a couple walking to the top of a hill and watching all the land below them engulfed in a flood. There is no ark or anything resembling the Noah myth.
Different flood stories strengthens the case that mutliple local floods have occurred.
He has to blindly rely on your apparatus . . .
You experience the effects of God every day (the universe), but you are still a blind atheist.
How will the blind man know the sun is the source of the photons?
Is it because you say so?
The question is not about blind people reading, its about convincing a blind man the sun exists.
The blind man has never seen the sun,
how will you convince the blind man the sun exists other than by the mere effects of photons, sound, bumps and pixels?
Obviously as civilizations record and relay these events they are going to tell the stories not only in a way that makes sense to their own people but also glorifies their own people. They will insert their own people into the story and include aspects of their own lives to make the stories more relatable. None of that changes the fact that the basis of each of these stories is a world wide flood that wiped out most of humanity.
How would they even know it was worldwide?
If it was true all generations would know it from stories told by Noah and his family. Of course some of the details might have gotten blurred along the line if it was told orally.
Why impossible? If I told you 100 years ago that the oxygen concentration in air was much higher in the days before Noah, you would have said impossible to that too.
So what was the oxygen concentration 4,000 years ago?
So how do those stories compare?
"The other version (mainly told in Oraibi) has it Tewa destroyed the Third World in a great flood. Before the destruction, Spider Grandmother sealed the more righteous people into hollow reeds which were used as boats. Upon arriving on a small piece of dry land, the people saw nothing around them but more water, even after planting a large bamboo shoot, climbing to the top, and looking about. Spider Woman then told the people to make boats out of more reeds, and using island "stepping-stones" along the way, the people sailed east until they eventually arrived on the mountainous coasts of the Fourth World."
Hopi mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That's the Hopi flood story, and it is nothing like the Noah story.
A) It did rain before the Flood. The Bible never says that it never rained before the Flood. All it says is that, in the beginning, God watered the Earth with a mist. He did this once. There's nothing to suggest he did this all the time, or that it never rained.
You need to read your Bible more.
B) Even if hadn't, this is irrelevant. We're clearly talking about civilizations that arose AFTER the Flood, because we wouldn't know much about a civilization that lived before.
How would they even know it was worldwide?
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