Science And The Bible - Introduction

[allan175]

I realise you are off to hospital today (good luck by the way, I hope it all goes well), but I have a few questions about your post.

Noah's ark was 300 cubits (438 feet or 134 m) long, 50 cubits (73 feet or 22m) wide, and 30 cubits (44 feet or 13 m) high. (Genesis 6:15)

It had three decks so about 96,000 square feet (8,900 sq m) of floor space. It had a gross volume of about 1,400,000 cubic feet (40,000 cu m) which is roughly the same as what the Titanic had.

I've heard this sort of statement before (obviously the figures are available in the bible), but ould it actually be possible to build something the size of the Titanic out of wood? I expect there would be a lot of stresses & strains that would make wood impractical.

The earth is 70% water. Not entirely out of line with a possible worldwide deluge. The thin crust of the earth would likely have shifted with billions of tons of water, and mountains would have been thrust upward. Old mountains rising to new heights and new shorelines would have been established. Shallow sea basins were deepened and new shorelines established./quote]
The Earth's *surface* is is around 70% water, the actual percentage of the Earth that is water is tiny.
As an aside, I had a quick search and someone has calculated that if the Earth was a perfectly smooth sphere it would be covered to the depth of 2.5km, so there is quite a lot of water around really. Although surely lots of mountains disappearing and seabeds rising would have been mentioned in the bible too.

[quote='Daystar' pid='5777' dateline='1228968475']Mammoths and rhinoceroses have been found in different parts of the earth, such as Siberian cliffs. Some preserved in ice, and some with food undigested in their stomachs or still unchewed in their teeth. They died suddenly.

Lions, tigers, bears and elk have been found in common strata which may indicate they were destroyed simultaneously.

Hmmm......Flash floods may well produce sudden deaths, but isn't it supposed to have rained for 40 days & 40 nights? Not exactly a quick thing.

Where did the water come from? There was a canopy of water around the earth from creation until the flood.

To me, this is the weakest point of everything you have said. I'd say this is exactly how primitive man would have thought rain worked.
I'm sure one of them said "*Obviously* there must be loads of water around the Earth, where else does the rain come from?" (only not in English ).