The Great Flood

[Daystar]

Oh yeah and Daystar, you say we can't argue properly with scripture, but at least my argument regarding scripture is very simple and a very strong and direct argument: You can't use scripture as an argument from God! Valid evidence please!

Your argument on the Bible is uninformed and irrelevant. You only have one point and that is that you don’t want to believe it so you refuse the evidence.

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Here is an interesting fact regarding the so called great flood of the bible as narrated in Genesis.

Genesis 7:20
20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Does anyone in here know how much a cubit is?A cubit is around 20.3 inches.This is what 15 cubits add up to in feet=
25.375ft. That is hardly enough water to cover the mountains and engulf the entire earth.Once again I rest my case.The bible is nothing more than a book of myths and folklore.

It is generally thought that there was a time when the oceans were smaller and the coninents were larger than they are now. That is why the river channels extend far out under the the oceans. Scientists believe that mountains in the past were much lower than they are now and some of them have been pushed up from under the seas. There is ten times as much water by volume in the ocean as there is land above sea level. If you dumped all that land into the sea the water would cover the entire earth 1 and 1/2 miles deep.

After the flood waters and before the raising of mountains and lowering of the seabeds and buildup of polar ice caps there was more than enough water to cover all the tall mountains.

It is possible that the reason for the drop in the life span of humans could have been from the protection of the canopy of water around the earth from harmful radiation and increase in cosmic radiation which is genetically harmful to man. Any change in radiation would also have altered the rate of formation of radioactive carbon-14 to the extent as to invalidate all radiocarbon dates prior to the Flood.

Not to mention that the effect of these billions of tons of water would cause tremendous changes to the earth's surface. Since the crust is relatively thin, about 20 miles (30 km), and 100 miles (160 km) thick stretched over a plastic mass thousands of kilometers in diameter, there would have been a great shifting in the crust, thrusting new mountains upward and like I said above, raising new ones while the shallow sea basins deepened there would be new shoreines established resulting in about 70% of the surface to be covered with water.

The water pressures were estimated to be equal to 2 tons per square inch which would be sufficient to fossilize fauna and flora rather quickly.