(December 18, 2012 at 4:58 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(December 17, 2012 at 10:33 am)catfish Wrote: הָאָרֶץ , the orinal Hebrew word translated to "earth" had/s multiple meanings...
הָאָרֶץ = nf. country, land; earth, ground, geo-; territory : http://translation.babylon.com/hebrew/to-english/
Doesn't matter in the least. The amount of water required to accomplish the narrative destroying and wholly less miraculous flood you're proposing (and maintain it for an apocalyptic 40 days and nights - let's be honest, you haven't given this any thought at all.....) what with water seeking it's own level....well, may as well just abandon the local flood nonsense because you're already invoking enough magic to make the real world (and it's limitations) irrelevant. Imagine a storm capable of dumping as much rain per minute as a category 5 hurricane does in an hour - dumping it for over a month straight. That's what we'd be talking about if it didn't happen in fantasy-land. Meanwhile, Noah and his raft..just riding it out..lol- and the water? Well hell, it just "stayed" in the region.
Ridiculous, you clearly figured that god was filling a swimming pool sized hole in the earth or something. This narrative cannot be reconciled with reality, regardless of who wrote it Cat. Had anything like the flood described in the bible ever occurred anywhere on earth we would not be here to talk about it, no living thing would be left alive on this rock, the entire planet would be uninhabitable. It's a bit different than filling a tub -of any size-.
So, you make a conclusion for me? I "figured" nothing, I gave an alternative interpretation.
I recognise the possibility of the flood being global, nothing else. I believe in continental drift and I do not believe our mountain ranges have always been mountains... I also read the Genesis story and I believe in underground springs...
Out of curiosity, do you believe marine fossils were found in mountain-top ranges?
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