Was The story of Noah real?

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God told him.

Genesis 7:4:

New International Version
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made."

New Living Translation
Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created."

English Standard Version
For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”
 
No, the story says that all the animals and humans were wiped out, while plant life appears to have remained intact based on the dove finding life at the top of the mountain.

My point was that, had there been a world-wide flood of the magnitude you’re expecting, there would be a clear indicator of it in the geological record. There would be a world-wide layer of super-compacted organic debris.
 
Back to what Jesus said:

Matthew 24: 37 'As it was in Noah’s day, so [will] it be when the Son of [man]) comes.

38 For in those days before the Flood people were eating, drinking, taking wives, taking husbands, up to the day [Noah] went into the ark,

39 and they suspected nothing till the Flood came and swept them all away. This is what it [will be like when the Son of [man] comes.
 
NASA has pictures from Mars, using their orbiting satellite, showing time lapse video over several years. It is identical to earth"s ice cap morphing. They showed it side by side. Also, other planets are changing. Jupiter is getting bigger. It is a gas planet so the gases are expanding.
 
None that I’m aware of, though you’re welcome to present contrary evidence.
 
I am not making any long term plans to visit Mars. The status of the ice cap there is critical to some of my favorite Science Fiction stories.
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The fact that Mars ice cap is melting has to do with solar cycles not man made global warming.
 
Ed, that site doesn’t give evidence, it gives assertions and anecdotes. He makes a lot of claims, but doesn’t actually provide evidence for any of them.

Buffalo, I’ll read through it when I have time later, though I will say fossils at the top of Everest are not that bizarre. Everest, as with all mountains, was at one time under the sea, or at least near sea-level. It then rose as two continental plates collided. It would be more bizarre if there weren’t fossils.

To be clear, I am not discounting the possibility of a world-wide flood. I just don’t currently see the evidence for it. If there was a worldwide flood then it’ll just bolster my faith more, so it’s not like I don’t want there to have been one. I just don’t see the evidence. I’ll read through those links though.

(I’m glancing through some of the “proof” in that link Buffalo, and it’s really, really tenuous. The prevalence of flood narratives across the world has always been one of the things that make me think the flood is plausible, but the other points all have very simple explanations… for instance, the presence of billions of fossils isn’t that odd when you considers that trillions of organisms have lived throughout the Earth’s history.)
 
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Buffalo, I’ll read through it when I have time later, though I will say fossils at the top of Everest are not that bizarre. Everest, as with all mountains, was at one time under the sea, or at least near sea-level. It then rose as two continental plates collided. It would be more bizarre if there weren’t fossils.
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Wind erosion and landslides should have eliminated them.
 
ProdglArchitect said:
(I’m glancing through some of the “proof” in that link Buffalo, and it’s really, really tenuous. The prevalence of flood narratives across the world has always been one of the things that make me think the flood is plausible, but the other points all have very simple explanations… for instance, the presence of billions of fossils isn’t that odd when you considers that trillions of organisms have lived throughout the Earth’s history.)
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Rapid burial of millions and different ones in various fossil graveyards throughout the world smells of cataclysm.
 
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Wind erosion and landslides should have eliminated them.
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Buffalo, that’s what’s known as an assertion. You can’t simply claim that and expect people to believe it. There’s no reason those forces would have removed all traces of fossils, especially considering that Everest is currently covered in a basically permanent layer of ice, which would have been preserving most of the details at the top for the majority of it’s life as a mountain.
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Rapid burial of millions and different ones in various fossil graveyards throughout the world smells of cataclysm.
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It does, there’s just no reason the cataclysms have to be the same cataclysm. There are plenty of causes for rapid extinction that we’ve seen throughout the history of our planet. The fact that there are these types of beds all over the planet just means that these types of cataclysms have happened everywhere.
That sediment layers also happens to align very closely with an in-land sea that used to cover much of the interior of the US millions of years ago…
The point I’m trying to make is that you have to be careful when making claims like this. Every point you’ve offered has a viable alternative explanation that fits more with the known models of the how the world operates.

Could there have been a world-wide flood? Sure. Nothing is outside of God’s ability, and perhaps we’ve been misinterpreting the available information. I just don’t think that’s the case.

If I’m wrong, I hope God understands and will show me the Truth when I die. It’s not like my faith hinges on there either having been, or having not been, a world-wide flood.

Personally, I’d love it if the evidence showed a world-wide flood, because that’d just be one more point in favor of the Bible.
 
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Buffalo, that’s what’s known as an assertion. You can’t simply claim that and expect people to believe it. There’s no reason those forces would have removed all traces of fossils, especially considering that Everest is currently covered in a basically permanent layer of ice, which would have been preserving most of the details at the top for the majority of it’s life as a mountain.
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What event covered Mt Everest in ice and snow say 50 million years ago when it supposedly started growing?
 
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It does, there’s just no reason the cataclysms have to be the same cataclysm. There are plenty of causes for rapid extinction that we’ve seen throughout the history of our planet. The fact that there are these types of beds all over the planet just means that these types of cataclysms have happened everywhere.
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Yes, or at one time…
 
ProdglArchitect said:
The point I’m trying to make is that you have to be careful when making claims like this. Every point you’ve offered has a viable alternative explanation that fits more with the known models of the how the world operates.
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Right, so now we can agree that there is evidence that can be interpreted in two ways. Good.
 
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