Not strictly fact. Some parts of a newly erupted volcano have not (yet) been covered with water. New rock at the top of Mount Etna for example.
However, the problem for Noah’s flood, as written, is that there was never any time while the human species has existed that all of the land on Earth has been underwater. Some parts have been underwater while other parts have been above water. This has been the case for a very long time indeed. Parts can change from one state to the other, but at all times there has been plenty of dry land for humans to live on.
A literal interpretation of this part of Genesis is shown to be incorrect by the geological evidence.
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Someone else having trouble reading my post. I said all of that myself, except the bit about Genesis being incorrect. Genesis recounts
these facts: the earth was covered, tip to toe, with water. Everything with life in its nostrils perished. A limited number of types of life survived by design. And all of this, modern geology and paleontology confirms.
Consider, if I landed on the moon in the past sometime and, uneducated, I sat and wrote the story of the moon which stated among other things that all of the moon was covered in water once. Nobody now nor then would believe me because it is not covered in water and you cannot see how it could ever be covered in water. But then along comes planetary geologist and they describe how all parts of the moon were at some stage covered in water. So, how would I, uneducated, have known this. And nobody would believe it until the planetary geologists comes along and says the same thing!
Humans communicate ideas and messages in sometimes unique ways.
I remember an ancient story once about semi-mythical people. The story is very old going back 2000-3000 years, like the story of Noah. It goes like this; A very different type of people arrived one day in this Land in a cloud on top of a mountain. They were tall, fair and of a noble aspect. There weapons were superior to the local warriors weapons in lightness and strength. These people were called the Tuatha de Dannan.
The local people they arrived so suddenly amongst were called the Fir Bolg. Their appearance was different, they were shorter and darker in complexion. The name Fir Bolg means ‘Bag Men’.
Now considering the age of the story it is my interpretation that the local people were the native Bronze-Age people, the Fir Bolg. Anyone familiar with bronze will know that a temperature of around 1100C is need to melt bronze. This is achieved in the bronze age only by using charcoal and bellows to force the temperature higher. Hence the term for these bronze casters ‘Bag Men’ or people who use bellows, which are just large bags of air made from leather.
The Tuatha de Dannan on the other hand used weapons which were lighter and stronger. Bronze is relatively heavy because it is soft and because it is cast in moulds and there is a minimum thickness of bronze which can be cast successfully. Bronze cannot be worked hot with a hammer like iron. Red hot bronze will shatter and scatter like glass if it is hit with a hammer.
So the Tuatha de Dannan used Iron weapons and tools. Iron is produced in a different way to bronze. Bellows are unnecessary. The iron ore is melted out of crushed rock when it is burned in a furnace with layers of coal. The molten iron can be poured into general shaped moulds and later heated red hot ad hammered into shape very thin and light but also very strong.
Now as this ancient story goes, the Tuatha de Dannan arrived suddenly on day in a cloud on a mountain top. The mountain is called Sliabh An Iarainn, or the Iron Mountain. This mountain had significant iron ore deposits as well as coal seams emerging right at the surface.
So the Tuatha de Dannan were just the new Iron-Age settlers, whose appearance and bearing were different, because they were not native inhabitants but a new race of migrants. They were said in the story to have appeared in a cloud on that mountain because that was one of the single memorable traits of these people, their Iron work. The cloud they appeared in on the mountain was the smoke from their coal fired iron furnaces smelting iron and their forges working the iron into light strong tools and weapons.
The story took the significant differences between the two people and their work or craft and compiled a short ‘story of origins’ which was included in their repertoire of history. All of the history of these people they recorded by memorizing it as they had no written language their history was passed on through the generations as stories. And within the stories was the facts of their history.
