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StAnastasia
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Why bother with mechanics?
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buffalo
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They can give me confidence if they are any good. If they are charletons than I should worry.
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bobzills
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But did the flood cover the entire world, or just a small part of it?
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StAnastasia
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Possibly the area around the Black Sea. Of course, there may have been other floods in other river valleys (Nile, Indus, Ganges, Yangtse, Mississippi, Amazon), in which a family managed to survive widespread devastation with their animals by climbing onto a boat. These become stories of mythic proportion, transmitted orally, magnified, and eventually encapsulated in written form.
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block
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I’m not sure that I understand the purpose of the question. I check my breaks everyday when it comes to faith, it’s called prayer.
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Bubba_Switzler
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A very good book on this and other similar issues is The Bible as History: Exploring the Book that Changed the World by Ian Wilson.
He explores the very interesting theory that the great flood was a result of the filling of the Black Sea (which was previously below sea level until it was joined to the mediterreanean). Also that Abraham originated form southeastern turkey and not Babylon. Mostly, it finds archeological support for the Bible.
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Harri_Laaksonen
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Have you done the math? I have…
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bobzills
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I am not sure which mathematics you are talking about. Can you show us the equations?
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Harri_Laaksonen
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The quick and dirty estimate of the volume of water required for a single world wide flood deep enough to cover the mountains ( Lets exempt the Himalayas for the moment) is the area of the surface of the earth in square km (keeps it simpler) times the depth in km. If we assume an average of 3km for the mountains, the surface area of the planet X 3 gives us the volume.
The next question is where do you put it all afterwards?
My present leaning is toward the Black Sea coast event leading to a universalization of the story over a few dozen generations before writing was invented.
The next question is where do you put it all afterwards?
My present leaning is toward the Black Sea coast event leading to a universalization of the story over a few dozen generations before writing was invented.
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StAnastasia
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Precisely. And what did Noah do with 2.5 million pounds of elephant dung generated on board the ark?
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buffalo
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Do you know where the term “head” (as in I gotta go to the head) comes from?
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StAnastasia
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No – I could google it.
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buffalo
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OK - I’ll share. Back in the day of sailing ships the crew would relieve themselves at the point of the bow. The reason? Because the bow would dip into the waves and flush it all away.
So it could be with ark. Elephant dung drops down and gets flushed away. Not so difficult of a problem after all. There are better arguments for there not being an ark.
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cerad
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So someone had to lead the elephants (and the horses, ostriches, stegosaurus etc) up to the bow every day? Toilet training a duck. Now that’s a miracle.
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buffalo
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Uh no - the water flushes underneath.
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StAnastasia
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Buffalo, thanks for sharing. I’ll remember that for my next theology department meeting! That should bring things to a head. The chair will probably tell me to “cut the ****”
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cerad
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So wouldn’t the boat sort of sink if water was coming in?
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buffalo
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If the chair is ex-navy he will get it right away.
Tell me that you guys were not debating 2.5 million lbs of dung, now were you? Or was this just the amount of dung some of the theology departments have been putting out lately?
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buffalo
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Do boats sink now when their ballasts are full?
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