So we have from the science and history presented -
- There isn't enough water on and in the Earth for this to have happened.
- Boat technology in 2400BC - humans didn't know how to build a boat that size. I posted a picture of a 2400bc era boat capability. Not even
remotely close.
- Noah didn't know how to build a boat that size. He and his sons weren't enough manpower either.
- The materials to make a boat like that weren't available in Mesopotamia.
- Noah couldn't have cut the forests, made the pitch, painted the pitch, build the boat, all while collecting animals from around the world, gathering
their food, and gathering their fresh water supplies. Can't do it all.
- The boat would have rotted before being finished.
- The number of animal that would have been required to be on the boat was in the tens of millions. Animal diversity proves this. They couldn't be
gathered. They couldn't fit. Their food couldn't be gathered. Their food couldn't fit. Their water couldn't be gathered. Their water couldn't
fit.
-Specific animals have specific food requirements that would have not been able to be filled.
- The amount of food needed for the animals couldn't be gathered and couldn't fit on the ark and couldn't be kept fresh.
- The amount of animal poop and pee would have overwhelmed the 8 people. Spending all day every day removing the poop and pee. Disease would have
risen up.
- Human genetic diversity proves that we all didn't come from one man in 2400BC.
- Human language and culture and religious and writing diversity proves that we all didn't come from one man in 2400bc Mesopotamia.
- A wooden boat that size would have been crushed in the ocean. It could float but it would have been torn apart. It wouldn't have been
seaworthy.
- The amount of water that would have had to have been on the boat wouldn't fit. And large amounts of fresh water in storage on the boat would have
sunk the boat, causing it to be off balance in the storms and waves and capsizing.
- The semi-aquatic animals needing both water and land - like hippos and turtles - wouldn't have a habitat on the ark for them and they wouldn't have
survived.
- animals have temperature requirements and Mesopotamia simply would have been too hot for the arctic animals, killing them.
- There is no way that the animals that were required to be on the boat could have made it to Mesopotamia from South America, North America,
Australia, Islands, etc etc.
- 2 of a kind is not enough diversity for a species to survive. At least 50 is needed, and 500 is needed for healthy generations.
- There was no way for noah to gather the one year supply of ants, termites, and insects needed to feed the animals that needed to eat them.
- There was no way for noah to feed the carnivores that required meat in their diets.
- There was no way for the insects of the world to survive, and that includes bees, so that means a dead planet.
- Genesis 6:16 says there was an 18-inch opening all around the top of the ark for ventilation, but that wouldn't have been enough and the animals
would have died from the lack of oxygen and the fumes from the poop and pee.
- measles, pneumococcal pneumonia, leprosy, typhus, typhoid fever, small pox, poliomyelitis, syphilis, and gonorrhea etc etc would have had to have
been on the ark and in the 8 people on the ark in order for those diseases to survive. It's impossible for the 8 people to hold all the communicable
diseases and survive.
- Two miles of water covering the planet and oceans would have destroyed every plant on the planet including all their seeds and their roots.
CRUSHING them under the weight of ice cold sunless oceans. Killing the planet and leaving nothing for people and animals to eat after the flood.
- The salt from the oceans covering the earth would have killed the soil. Dead soil and useless unable to grow anything. And any soil would have
been buried in yards and yards of poisoned sediment.
- There wouldn't have been any food for the animals coming off the ark. No grasses to eat (and none ever to grow again), no prey to eat, no insects
to eat. They would have starved.
- Rain would have fallen at a crushing 350 inches an hour, destroying the ark. (and washing away the imaginary 'garden' on top of the ark invented by
cooperton). It also would have made the air UNBREATHABLE.
- Geology proves there was no world wide flood.
- Archeology proves there was no world wide flood.
- Civilizations around the world with uninterrupted history, keeping their people and their language and their gods.
- Dendrochronology proves there was no world wide flood.
- The ice shelves still exist and prove there was no world wide flood.
- Coral reefs tens of thousands of years old still exist and prove there was no world wide flood.
- Ice core samples go back 40,000 years and show no evidence of a world wide flood.
- The mix of fresh and salt water would have killed all the ocean algae, and all the fresh water and ocean fish. Killing the oceans. Dead oceans
mean no oxygen and a dead planet.
- We know where the Noah myth comes from ... earlier PAGAN stories that the Hebrews took and readapted to their own culture. The story is made up.
There was no Noah.
- The stories from around the world about floods were from regional floods and do not match the Noahs flood story. Those people also do not speak
Noahs language, nor have his God, nor have his culture so they obviously did not come from his offspring.
And of course we have the fact that the whole Noahs Flood was supposed to wipe out sin, which it didn't do. So it would be considered an epic
failure.
THE STORY IS IMPOSSIBLE. Proven - It didn't happen.
The Impossible Voyage of Noahs Ark - National Center for Science Education
The Physical Impossibility of Noahs Ark
Penn State University - The Examination - Noahs Ark Didn't Happen
The Impossible Voyage of Noahs Ark - paper available
How Stuff Works - Could Noahs Ark Really Have Happened?