Noah's flood never happened

Jim Barrows can easily discredit Noah's flood. #science #religion #debate

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[shyro]

Given that some of first major sources of civilization came from areas where flooding was an expected occurrence, like the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia and the Nile in Egypt, it isn’t surprising now that ancient stories of floods existed. Noah’s arc is also problematic as there are entire civilizations by this point that managed to survive from the time that this flood would’ve supposedly happened and yet came out unscathed, almost like a global flood never actually happened

[Barnaclebeard]

An adult on TV explaining to other adults that the story of Noah's Ark isn't historical.

[Beacon]

My favorite flaw with Noah's Ark is all the civilizations that were around at the time and somehow didn't notice.

[undrwatropium]

On the Titanic, the workers, (probably hundreds) removed 1 ton of 💩 every
Making noahs ark logistically IMPOSSIBLE. The methane from the 💩 would have killed everything on board

[mrsanity]

1: ~12000 years ago, a farmer has his flock on hillside in what is now the Persian Gulf.
2: During the gradual inundation when the ice sheets retreated, releasing water that raised the sea level, he gets seasonally cut off.
3: Finally, the tide doesn't retreat and he's permanently isolated. He builds a boat, and ferries his herds to what is now mainland.
4: 20000 retellings later, with dramatic embellishment for entertainment purposes, you have the epic of Gilgamesh, from which Noah's story was ripped off.

[Ghalaghor_McAllistor]

It only took 40 days of non-stop rain to flood the entire planet while Maui, a small island in Hawaii, is still existing after over 331 days of non-stop rain in 1939-40. Maybe they build their town near a flood plain and thought the entire world had flooded before someone turned that story into the "great flood" myth of the bible.

[Balfour.]

Of course two polar bears and two penguins received the news and walked 8.000 kilometers from their respective poles to get on the Ark and be saved. How can you not believe in that?

[DrownedInExile]

Every modern ship that ever sunk, was due to engine failure in a storm. Ships have to punch through waves head-on. If the wave hits a ship sideways, it capsizes. Noah's Ark would not have survived rough seas.

[snowieken]

In the great words of Eddie Izzard: "Did he put two of every animal in the boat? No. How can I be so sure? Try it."

[kitchencarvings]

Lake varves prove that there was no global flood and these are cooberated by ocean sediment varves and tree rings and ice layers. There are Sugi trees in Japan that are older than the flood timing.

[bunnykiller]

and so it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and for that much rain to fall to cover the entire earth it would have to had rained at a rate of 36 feet per hour for the entire time, since records have been kept the highest rainfall was 11" in an hour.... but the main question is where did all of that water come from and where did it go?

[davidfitnesstech]

Flood believers will tell you that the animals today basically *changed over time* from the animals that *came from the ark.*
But yet they don't believe in *evolution.*
Sometimes *faith and belief* just require *cognitive dissonance* with a pinch of *rationalization* for flavor.
The "Ark Encounter" exhibit actually contains *dinosaurs ;-)*
YIKES.

[Scarletpooky]

It's blatantly obvious why so many cultures have flood myths.
In order for humans to survive they need water, this means that early humans are far more likely to build on or near rives (at least until they get the technology to build wells)
In order for a civilisation to flourish it needs to trade for the things it doesn't produce. In the small scale that's just getting something from a nearby town, but it will end up requiring trade from further away. The best way to trade distances is by boat. This means that the biggest settlements will be on the coast, or big rivers, that can have a port.
People mainly need flat land to build on, so that means that the biggest settlements will be on big flat bits of land.
Put that together and you get humans building big settlements on large flat land next to rivers and seas.
Do you know what those areas are often called? Flood plains.
There are numerous causes for floods, from mass melting snow, to monsoons, to tsunamis. And these flood will go into those flood plains, the places humans love to build.

That's it. Simple basic understanding of the needs of human civilisation and environmental factors easily explains why human history is plagued by floods.

The thing to remember is that, while it may appear to most humans at that time as if their world is flooded, it doesn't mean that the whole world is flooded.

[Pay-It_Forward]

If the mountains were close to sea level at that time & the poles reversed during it, then it would have washed sea water over the mountains. No heating of water needed. Noah was given a wand by God similar to the rod of Moses & Aaron. Noah shrunk all the animals so they would fit in the ark. Then enlarged them afterwards. That's one of the ways they made the food supply last. Also sea sickness or motion sickness made the animals 💤 😴 💤 sleep.

[mrnoodle]

Just did a quick google and it said the general scientific consensus is that a worldwide flood couldn’t have significantly affected the mantle. I’m just confused on if it would have melted the mantle or not because that’s two opposing opinions on the anti-flood side.

[ljb]

The ark is one of the few Bible stories that I didn’t even believe was real as a kid. I always thought of it as a fictional story. Same with Jonah and the whale. It’s wild to me that fully grown adults think that actually happened.

[chikepanther]

Also... if Noah was on a tiny boat and no other person on earth survived.... how did Noah know the whole earth was flooded? Who came from the other side of the world... during the flood... and told him it was flooded?

[godsarepeopletoo]

Noah's flood carved out the grand canyon

But didn't pulverize a wooden box

😂

[GeoRockNerd]

Wait what do you mean about the mantle melting in case of large flood? I’m a geologist and not following how you’re connecting a surface flood to the mantle, 7 km deep under ocean crust (already flooded with oceans) and 35 km deep under the continents, average, which will remain unaffected by any hypothetical continental submergence (a preposterous idea, of course, not pro-flood, not a theist).

[zierka]

Noah's flood is just a sorry attempt at copying Gilgamesh's flood story.