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Post by Alex on Mar 5, 2011 7:54:01 GMT -5
Sure the flood may have happened, but it did not rain for 40 days and 40 nights, and there is no way a ship of that size could be made to carry 2 of each animal or even 7 of the "pure animals".
If this monumental ship the size of Switzerland was made, how is it possible that it was not found at all yet?
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Post by SwimFellow on Mar 5, 2011 12:25:58 GMT -5
My take on that is that there was a flood, as well as an ark, but there were no animals.
The reason I think there was an ark was because scientists found an ark on top on the mountain it was rumored to land on. Actually, not a flood. A tsunami. A tsunami that pushed a ship onto a mountain. Or someone was just building an ark on top of a mountain.. Who knows?
EDIT: I'm thinking there was actually a flood at some point. Every culture in the world has a story about a flood.. Yeahh.
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Post by Lyserg Zeroz on Mar 5, 2011 13:10:51 GMT -5
^I've actually also heard of scientists finding and ark... Like thrice. So I doubt that supposed findings =/. And your reason on the EDIT is confusing. You mean a great flood around the world? Because that could also be explained with the fact that various normal floods had happened around the world at different times, you don't even need a really big flood for people to imagine how a 100 times bigger flood would look like. Also, there are various ideas around the world that are alike, but that doesn't mean these ideas are true. For example: Dragons/Giant reptile-like beings.
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Post by SwimFellow on Mar 5, 2011 13:33:50 GMT -5
True... I didn't think about that..
Also: I REALLY HOPE DRAGONS WERE REAL.. THAT WOULD BE EPIC.
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Post by Alex on Mar 5, 2011 16:09:36 GMT -5
I don't even understand how there could be a flood that covered the whole Earth. There is only a set amount of water, and water never significantly increases in volume or decreases.
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Post by Ryan on Mar 5, 2011 16:28:15 GMT -5
the opposite of an ice age is a flood age. It is the polar extremum on the other end of the spectrum. An ice age causes the seas to fall as water is turned to ice, and as the ice melts as the world cycles towards a flood age, the seas rise again covering a large percent of the land mass. Also keep in mind - in order to survive people need water, so civilization would have been near a river or source of freshwater. Major cities would have been near to an ocean or sea and would have had ports. In any case, if the world went into a flood age during the time of civilization, the water near these areas would have risen and flooded the cities. While it's doubtful that a flood age occured during a time of civilization, it's a possible explanation to a great-flood scenario.
A more appropriate one was that a place flooded, they wrote a story about it, and it so happened that other places at other times also flooded and they wrote stories about those. Later on, people compared stories and said - "hey, you had a flood a long time ago, and so did we! It must be the same flood" = Tadah! great flood scenario, even though they were most likely different floods
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Post by SwimFellow on Mar 5, 2011 16:57:21 GMT -5
^^ GOOD POINT
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Post by krzych32 on Mar 5, 2011 23:09:11 GMT -5
the opposite of an ice age is a flood age. It is the polar extremum on the other end of the spectrum. An ice age causes the seas to fall as water is turned to ice, and as the ice melts as the world cycles towards a flood age, the seas rise again covering a large percent of the land mass. Also keep in mind - in order to survive people need water, so civilization would have been near a river or source of freshwater. Major cities would have been near to an ocean or sea and would have had ports. In any case, if the world went into a flood age during the time of civilization, the water near these areas would have risen and flooded the cities. While it's doubtful that a flood age occured during a time of civilization, it's a possible explanation to a great-flood scenario. A more appropriate one was that a place flooded, they wrote a story about it, and it so happened that other places at other times also flooded and they wrote stories about those. Later on, people compared stories and said - "hey, you had a flood a long time ago, and so did we! It must be the same flood" = Tadah! great flood scenario, even though they were most likely different floods Responding to the second part, I don't think people are that stupid, give them more credit.
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Post by Ryan on Mar 5, 2011 23:35:33 GMT -5
people 2000-4000 years ago didn't keep detailed records of dates. So if my city-state had suffered a massive flood a few centuries ago and your city-state did as well, people would assume that there was just one massive flood at approximately the same time, especially if the city states were close.
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