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This is like how the so-calledBiblical Flood might have happened.

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Many years ago, James Cameron hosted a show on History channel basically explaining the big Noah flood and the Exodus of the Jews and the things that happened. It was a good watch.
 
JEDIYoda said:
hahaha that is such an ignorant statement.....the Op claimed the flood did not happen. Thus its incumbent upon the OP to provide proof....duh...
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that proof has already been posted.

there is

zero

zero

zero

zero

evidence of a global flood.

the bible was/is wrong.

I hope that answers the question for you.
 
FalseChristian said:
It all comes to whether you believe that the Bible is the Word of God or not. If you do than you believe that the Flood happened. If your an evolutionist than no you wouldn't believe in the Bible. I happen to believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God so, yes, the Flood happened Earth-wide.
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Not all Christians believe in a literal translation of the Bible. Some have realized that the amount of evidence stacked up against such a viewpoint is like building a belief system on a house of cards - it's going to fall down. Many Christians believe in things like evolution & the big bang.
 
JEDIYoda said:
I am sorry but no Bible believing Christian denies the flood happened!!
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You have to be uneducated and/or or an idiot to take the bible completely literally. Yeah, the earth is 6000 years old and there was global flood. No.

Or are you saying that all "bible-believing" Christians are uneducated and/or idiots? Because those conditions are indisputable.

Anyone that seriously thinks there was a global flood and Noah saved all the animals is an idiot. Or ignorant. Or a loon. Or all. Everyone knows this, to borrow from a beloved former member.
 
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sandorski said:
There is land flooded with salt water all around the earth right now.

There is no evidence of a Global Flood. None. There is plenty of evidence of numerous floods all around the earth, at various times, but not evidence of a Global Flood.
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I think I was remembering Bruce Masse's great flood theory, since they found matching craters roughly where and around the size that was needed for his theory. If they landed where they did, it would have effected the known world as a global flood. Whats funny is I think I actually read about it in OT:

The Great Flood and Noah's Ark
 
The story of the great flood predates the bible (Gilgamesh). I figure they're mostly between the Tigris and Euphrates, given a big enough event it would make a big impact on the people at the time.
 
Im surprised some people think the stuff in the bible is completely made up... Im as anti-religion as anyone but its pretty obvious most of the stuff there is based on actual events, just with a "magical" twist and a great deal of exaggeration, which comes from the fact that they simply didnt have the information/knowledge we have nowadays

Im sure SOME kind of flood happened, somewhere, and it must have been a pretty big event as others said
Same goes for Jesus and anything else, I highly doubt it is a completely fictional character... There was most definitely some guy who had a huge influence on people at the time, he just didnt turn water into wine and all that crap
 
Dammit I was expecting people to comment on how this was an awesome display of the power of the ocean, how nature can make us feel small, and praising the cameraman for staying this close until he hauled ass out of there, not a discussion on whether the biblical Flood really happened as depicted in the Old Testament. 🙁

At any rate, it was also said in another version of this video (that aired in Destroyed In Minutes) that the owner of the tin mine noticed (or was made aware) of water trickling through the cliff face and had the personnel and machinery evacuated just minutes before what's depicted in the video happened, thus lives were saved by his good judgment and decision making.
 
SlowSpyder said:
How come only 600+ year old Noah and his family lived? Did he have the only boat in existence at the time?
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No boat (unless of course it's protected by God) is going to help you under the Great Flood conditions. 40 days is 57600 minutes, so for the water to rise to 29,000 ft, you would need it to come down at 6 in/min. That might be less than during a hurricane but over a much longer period of time.
 
ShadowOfMyself said:
Same goes for Jesus and anything else, I highly doubt it is a completely fictional character... There was most definitely some guy who had a huge influence on people at the time, he just didnt turn water into wine and all that crap
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Jesus is an anthropomorphism of the sun. The story of Jesus is an astrological story of the sun and was written ~70 AD by several people with different accounts. Jesus was "born" at the beginning of the Age of Pisces. His "reign" is over at the beginning of the Age of Aquarius.

Why didn't they know what he was doing for the missing years (12-30)? Did they lose track of him? Did he go into hiding? No, it's just that those numbers are unimportant in the story of the Sun.
 
JTsyo said:
No boat (unless of course it's protected by God) is going to help you under the Great Flood conditions. 40 days is 57600 minutes, so for the water to rise to 29,000 ft, you would need it to come down at 6 in/min. That might be less than during a hurricane but over a much longer period of time.
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Hurricane might equal 6 inches PER HOUR, but certainly not 6 inches per minute.
 
DrPizza said:
Hurricane might equal 6 inches PER HOUR, but certainly not 6 inches per minute.
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I think the world record is 1.9" in a minute.

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Childs said:
I dont remember where I got that...maybe a Red Ice podcast or Nova special or something, but there are signs in the US (south west, four corners, etc) that showed fossil records and geological evidence that the whole area was flooded with sea water, and it matched up with the same time period as other great floods in other parts of the world. I can't quite remember where it was I saw it, but it was reasonable enough. I'm not suggesting the Sumerian flood was an eye witness account, as I think this flood predates that civilization, and the story of this flood has been passed down via oral tradition since long before written history, which is why many cultures have their own versions. I don't see cultures from different part of the world, during different time periods with no direct interaction, making up the same myth with slight variations. More than likely its based on a common event, whether its coming out of an ice age or a asteroid causing a massive tsunami. It was significant enough that its been passed down generation after generation.
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Most of the southwest was underwater at one point, but it was long before humans existed, and it wasn't a flood. It was an inland sea at one point.
 
Childs said:
I dont remember where I got that...maybe a Red Ice podcast or Nova special or something, but there are signs in the US (south west, four corners, etc) that showed fossil records and geological evidence that the whole area was flooded with sea water, and it matched up with the same time period as other great floods in other parts of the world. I can't quite remember where it was I saw it, but it was reasonable enough. I'm not suggesting the Sumerian flood was an eye witness account, as I think this flood predates that civilization, and the story of this flood has been passed down via oral tradition since long before written history, which is why many cultures have their own versions. I don't see cultures from different part of the world, during different time periods with no direct interaction, making up the same myth with slight variations. More than likely its based on a common event, whether its coming out of an ice age or a asteroid causing a massive tsunami. It was significant enough that its been passed down generation after generation.
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Flooding is a common problem especially to civilizations that tend to build their towns and cities near rivers and other bodies of water. If they all had similar stories about aliens, that's one thing but flood is common the owrld over.
 
Crono said:
The biblical account makes it pretty clear that it was a worldwide flood, indicating that even the tallest mountains (Mt Ararat is taller than 16,000 feet) were overtaken by the flood, and the amount of time it took for the floodwaters to completely recede was about 7 months.

If you aren't a Christian and want to believe the modern view, that's fine, but don't try and reconcile the story. Either you believe the biblical account or you don't. Don't try to mend it to fit a current theory.
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And where do you suppose all that hydrogen and oxygen went during those 7 months? Where do you suppose it came from to begin with? How much rain do you suppose would have to fall every minute to raise the sea level 16,000 feet in 40 days?
 
BudAshes said:
The sad thing is that one of the biggest reasons I despise Christians besides the fact that they more mostly for destroying the only planet we live on because the apocolypse is coming anyway, is that I'm jelly. I wish I could be a dipshit and like dipshit things and pretend some dipshit in the sky is going to save me. I get fucking sick of being my own god sometimes.
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how are christians destroying the planet?
 
Jesusthewererabbit said:
Most of the southwest was underwater at one point, but it was long before humans existed, and it wasn't a flood. It was an inland sea at one point.
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My point was you have a massive "global" flood, and the story is passed on from generation to generation. Then you see stuff like sea shells in the mountains and evidence of sea water, and it reinforces the myth. Like the whale death site in the Atacama desert. There is no evidence of prolonged sea life in that desert, just 80 or so whales and other animals that appear to have been stranded at one point, probably from a massive tsunami or wave. These kinds of things where scientific proof as early as 200 years ago that the flood actually happened. There must have been some environmental event a long time ago that got people to come up with the myth.

Unless it was simply the fossils in the mountains, and the flood was the explanation. They wouldnt have known how mountains where formed, so it would have seemed logical that the mountain was underwater, and now its not, so it must have been a global flood.

JTsyo said:
Flooding is a common problem especially to civilizations that tend to build their towns and cities near rivers and other bodies of water. If they all had similar stories about aliens, that's one thing but flood is common the owrld over.
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Aliens actually make more sense than a vindictive god flooding the world. And actually, many religions have references to "aliens". The Annunaki, Indian vimanas, Star people (American Indian tribe). But my point was, for people in those days to think it was a global flood, significant enough to tell generation after generation, then eventually incorporate into their religions, make me think there was some significant event that originated it. Especially if someone from the middle east could travel to India and say...what about that global flood, and the person in India can reference the event, if only by legend. Of course then they kill each other over who's god actually started the flood, but thats besides the point.

The only way I can it just being a local flood is if it happened to one group of people, and they moved all throughout the region as traders or simply spreading out. They retell the story, to the point where generations later they though it happened to them. But a simpler explanation to me is that some mega tsunami hit the Indian ocean and whipped out all the people in the region.

Iron Woode said:
how much crack does someone have to smoke to believe that kind of idiocy?
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lol You don't need a lot, just real good shit. I think when I originally heard this theory he said the force of the water pressure was so great that it made comets. And this guy has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.
 
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BudAshes said:
Funny thing is that I bet most of the people involved in selling christians their brainwashing agenda are probably atheists laughing all the way to the bank. And it's a giant bank with a vault the size of Scrooge McDucks.
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you know christians are not the only ones who believe in Noah. but yea keep on being ignorant.
 
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