(April 19, 2015 at 5:52 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote:The flood story is a metaphor for a military invasion of the region. If you read the story you will see that it uses a lot of war metaphors. The Bible even says that the idea of a water flood is BS since Assyria, Persia, Ethiopia, and Arabia existed when Adam & Eve were running around naked if the Garden of Eden and those same places with their same people existed after the Noah's flood.
Putting Canaan aside, I began to talk about Noah's flood. I touched on the absurdity of the story. Even as a child I could not get my head around this story. Like how did all the food and animals fit aboard? What about the plants? The freshwater fish? The dinosaurs? Did Noah save every species of bacteria that couldn't survive in water? So many details are missing.
I don't know that much about the Bible, but I know enough to know the flood was not local. This is something Mummadans are always clamouring about too - how the Quran flood is local (when it actually isn't see Quran 11:42) and how the Biblical flood is global and therefore impossible. According to my father, there is enough water on Earth so that if the Earth was all at sea level (with no elevations) the Earth would flood like the Bible says.
It's stupid to say there were no mountains because there must have been mountains because how else would Noah end up on Mount Ararat? It gets worse. Apparently, mountains suddenly formed in the time between the rain stopping and Noah finding mount Ararat because the movement of the tectonic plates spend up or something, and Noah was on the ark for long enough (between the rain stopping and finding Ararat) for mountains to suddenly form.
Now that I think about it I should have asked these questions:
1. Just how local is "local"? It was obviously big enough to warrant building a huge boat.
2. If it was really was "that local" then why didn't Noah simply move away from the flood area? In the time it took to build the boat he could have traveled far enough away, surely.
3. Surely there are better ways to teach people lesson than to flood them all (and therefore take away their free will)?
I don't understand why he believes this, as it sounded like he was making up excuses as he went along. There's that book on why intelligent people believe stupid things which I ought to get. I can't remember who the author is though.
Noah was able to survive the enemy invasion and his grandson Nimrod went on to become the big wig in the area, including taking over Assyria and buiding a number of cities there including Nineveh.
The Mount Ararat part indicates that Noah had some positive links to the Hittite kingdom.
