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A literal interpretation of the bible? So you cant pick and choose your bits, right?
Personally i couldn't care less what people believe but please explain Noah's ark the 50,000 species of animal, 1 million species of insects....and the DINOSAURS all living together for over 6 months?
luvfightgame is correct, this is a question outside the realms of science.
There is no scientific evidence that can prove one way or the other specific details of a man building an ark.
You dont have to explain it
Noah's ark. million species. Dinosaurs.
Yes or no?
Noah's ark-yes
millions of species-not millions
dinosaurs- yes
It doesn't need a seperate thread
If you want to explain how this could of happened
i'm all ears ;)
Hey Fenster as I said earlier to demonstrate the specifics of the Noah Flood story is impossible as obviously events such as all the animals coming to Noah, Noah receiving a warning from God and being told to build an ark, Noah's wooden ark with all the animals on board surviving a worldwide cataclysmic flood so devastaing it destroyed every other human and land animal not on board the ark the whole world over are quite blatently things that could only happen if you believe in miracles and a miracoulus God.
If you don't no amount of discussion will convince you otherwise.
Personally my own investigations into the issue were all about trying to disprove the bible's account.
I started firstly by examining the geanealogies in the bible regarding people before the flood, their births and deaths. The bible tells us all of Noah's ancestors and how long they lived.
I figured if I added them all up I could see if anybody lived after the flood thus proving a contradiction. What I found amazed me. Everyone of Noahs descendents although living for hundreds of years died before the flood year.
One person Methuselah the oldest living human in history according to the bible lived to be 900 and something. He died in the year of the flood.
I looked up the meaning of his name. In Hebrew it literally mean's 'When he is dead, judgement will come'.
This isn't mentioned in the bible at all, that was just my own investigation and I discovery of the first of many hidden signs in the bible.
Next I examined the biblical account of the flood. It lasted for 150 days, it wasnt caused merely by rainfall as people seem to believe but according to the bible by the undersea foundations of the earth breaking apart.
Geologically this is actually what we observe. Massive tectonic shifts, the seperation of the continents, seabeds wrenching forth to become the highest mountains. The bible gets it right.
Thirdly I examined what the bible says about the ark itself. The dimensions of the ark are in the bible and amazingly they are exactly correct an amazing feat of guesswork for early goatherders and shepeards to guess at.
The size of the ark was as follows, 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. If it really existed this would make it the largest ancient vessal in existence.
What is remarkable however is that the dimensions of the ark were as I said above exactly the correct design for an boat designed to stay afloat. Interestingly, the British civil and mechanical engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel built a steamship (the Great Britain) in 1843 that had almost the same proportions as the Ark, although it was smaller. This was regarded as a remarkable feat of Victorian and maritime engineering.
There are other ancient accounts of a golbal flood, in fact every single ancient culture has a flood story, but interestingly those that give the dimensions of the ark get it hopelessy wrong.
The sumerians described the ark as being cube shaped which obviously would not work, it was get tossed over repeatedly and sunk.
The biblical ark would have been virtually impossible to tip over, a fact attested to by the hundreds of replica's that have been built and then put into a virtual wave generating machine.
Nobody has been able to get the boat to upturn, again google this for yourself.
As for evidence for a global flood the fossil record is proof positive. The only way fossils can be formed is if a creature or plant is engulfed by water, sediments lain over it quickly and compacted. If a global flood actually happened you would ecpect to find billions of fossils, buried in rock layers, laid down by water all over the earth, that is precisely what you find.
Incidently if you google fossils, try and find a fossil that evolutionists don't think was created by a flooding of water, thats how fossils are made ;)
Furthermore the ice age has long been a problem for evololutionists who thus far have no accepted explanation, but rather a dozen different thoeries, each one contradicting the others.
A global flood actually would explain how the ice age came to be. Again google if you are interested.
Also population statistics support the fact that man has only lived on earth for a few thousand years, exactly the same time frame for 8 people stepping off an ark.
Evolutionists believe anatomically modern humans exactly like us lived upto 250,000 years ago but left no trace of their existence or preserved no records until they decided to build civilisations in the exact same spot the bible says they did around 6000 years ago.
There is numerous evidence from geography, archaeology, oral tradition, the fossil record etc to demonstrate the world once suffered a catastrophic global flood.
Although Noah's ark will remain a matter of personal faith, evidence for a global flood which some might say would be proof enough is is demonstrated abundantly.
