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Originally Posted by Hymns I'll try to find a source, but I saw a program on the National Geographic Channel about scientists who actually found evidence of and plausible causes of a massive flood in this area and time period. |
Actually, most experts think the flood myth was based on one of two events. It is thought that ancient man was referring to the real catastrophic flood around 5600 B.C. when the Mediterranean Sea broke through a wall into the massive canyon that would become the Black Sea. The other is an actual flood that happened around ancient Shuruppak around 2750 B.C.
It's unquestionable that the ancient Hebrews got much of their flood myth from the Epic of Gilgamesh. The fact is, Noah wasn't a real person at all, his name was found several times in clay tablets found at the Mesopotamian city of Mari. Noah's name turns out to be a mistranslation of the Mesopotamian goddess of rain, Nuah.
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Not 2 of every animal, as they can't exactly have polar bears on their, can they?
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Yet that's what the Bible says. If you want to limit it to just the animals known in the local area, the task is still daunting, there's simply no rational way to gather, sex, categorize and care for that many animals on any size boat.
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There was most likely more people who fled to higher ground or off to Asia and escaped, and they would only have to repopulate the area.
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Which pretty much makes the story of Noah a waste. Supposedly the story is that God is wiping out every human that is not on the ark. If people can just walk up the local hills and survive, what's the point of the story?
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And the bible says "ark", not boat. An ark is more of a box (like ARK of the Covenant).
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Boxes are not seaworthy, especially given the dimensions in the Bible. If such a craft had ever really existed in the first place, it would have been blasted to splinters by the flood.
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And how am I supposed to know what is true and what is not?
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You're supposed to think. Give it a shot.
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And most of it is exagerated, so the line between true and false is kinda blurry.
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No, most of it is completely mythical. Noah never existed, neither did the ark, neither did the flood as described in Genesis. It's a collection of stories taken from ther sources that attempts to make a theological point. Why anyone takes it at all seriously today is beyond me.