Noah's Ark - flood
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Was there a worldwide flood?
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Christian views
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Secular views
- "The Biblical story of Noah's Ark must be false since it conflicts with what we know about the behavior and needs of various animals and their current distribution around the planet. It maintains that eight people cared for (what must have totaled) at least a million different animal species on a closed boat for over a year. That is impossible! It is also impossible that all the species presently distributed around the world migrated within the past 4000 years from Mount Ararat in Turkey."
- "The idea of a global deluge has been given a fair hearing in the scientific community, and was eventually rejected because there is no evidence for the event. Indeed, there is considerable evidence to the contrary:
- "The geological evidence against a global flood is overwhelming. Floods deposit high-energy sediments (for example, gravel) whereas less energetic conditions deposit sands, silts and muds. If there was a global flood, then the worldwide sequence of sedimentary rocks would grade upwards from high-energy sediments (i.e. conglomerate = ancient gravel, sands) deposited during the height of the flood to low-energy sediments (siltstone, mudstone, claystone) deposited during the waning of the flood...
- Not surprisingly, such a gradation seems to be inexplicably absent... Furthermore, in the record of rocks, we see evidence that some sedimentary rocks (and fossils therein) are formed in freshwater environments whereas other sedimentary rocks are formed in saline marine water. This presents a slight insuperable problem as the fictitious flood fluids were either fresh or saline but unquestionably could not be both. Clearly, there was no Great Flood." (I. Plimer: Telling Lies for God, page 75.)"
- " Where did the Flood water come from, and where did it go? Several people have proposed answers to these questions, but none which consider all the implications of their models. A few of the commonly cited models are addressed below."
