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originally posted by: komangwidiatmika
Noah's Ark - Apparently, some folks claim to have found it on Mount Ararat in Turkey, nestled among the snow like a giant wooden popsicle. So, what do you guys think? Real deal or another case of wishful thinking with a side of altitude sickness? Did Noah really park his boat on a mountaintop, or is this just a mirage shimmering above the hype? Would be interested to know what you guys think? Clearly it's soemthing there is a wooden strucutre frozen inside www.youtube.com... ️
I actually hate that part of my avatar because I couldn't get the AI to render her body type naturally, so I went Comicbook universe with it.
Does not a Stratovolcano rise in height throughout the ages? Some over 10,000 feet. Is it not possible the mountain, in those days, was not as tall as it is today?
Pyroclastic flows from the northwest flank of Greater Ararat killed many people and destroyed at least one Bronze Age settlement in 2500-2400 BCE. Such activity in the past 4500 years indicates that Mount Ararat continues to pose a hazard to the sparse population of the surrounding area.
Most biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholars argue that the flood is a mythical story adopted from earlier Mesopotamian flood accounts. These earlier accounts include the 17th century BCE Sumerian flood myth Eridu Genesis,[5] the 18th century BCE Akkadian Atra-Hasis Epic,[6] and the Epic of Gilgamesh,[7] which are some of the earliest known examples of a literary style of writing. The most complete version of the Epic of Gilgamesh known today is preserved on 12 clay tablets from the library of Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (685-627 BCE). This extant Akkadian version is derived from earlier Sumerian versions. In the story, Gilgamesh and his companion, a wild man-beast named Enkidu, travel the world on a number of quests that ultimately displease the gods. After the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh embarks on a journey to learn the secret of eternal life by visiting the immortal flood hero, Utnapishtim. Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh how the god Ea (equivalent to the Sumerian god Enki) revealed the gods' plan to destroy all life with a great flood, and how they instructed him to build a vessel in which he could save his family, friends, and livestock. After the flood, the gods repented for destroying the world and made Utnapishtim immortal.
These flood stories appear to have been transmitted to the Israelites early in Israel's history. Contact between the Assyrians and the Israelites is known from the conquest of Israel and its capitol, Samaria, in 721 BCE by Assyrian King Shalmaneser V (727-722 BCE),[8] and from the attempted conquest of Jerusalem by the Assyrian King Sennacherib (704-681 BCE). These stories were apparently modified to conform to a monotheistic faith, but retained characteristics such as the destruction of nearly all living things via a flood, the salvation of a select few people and animals by the construction of a boat, and the regret of the deity for the flood, prompting a promise not to do so again. Thus, like many of the early stories in Israel's primordial history,[9] the flood story appears to be an adaptation and integration of a previously known myth into the theology of Israel.
originally posted by: komangwidiatmika
Noah's Ark - Apparently, some folks claim to have found it on Mount Ararat in Turkey, nestled among the snow like a giant wooden popsicle. So, what do you guys think? Real deal or another case of wishful thinking with a side of altitude sickness? Did Noah really park his boat on a mountaintop, or is this just a mirage shimmering above the hype? Would be interested to know what you guys think? Clearly it's soemthing there is a wooden strucutre frozen inside www.youtube.com... ️
originally posted by: komangwidiatmika
Noah's Ark - Apparently, some folks claim to have found it on Mount Ararat in Turkey, nestled among the snow like a giant wooden popsicle. So, what do you guys think? Real deal or another case of wishful thinking with a side of altitude sickness? Did Noah really park his boat on a mountaintop, or is this just a mirage shimmering above the hype? Would be interested to know what you guys think? Clearly it's soemthing there is a wooden strucutre frozen inside www.youtube.com... ️
originally posted by: Degradation33
Hasnt it been proven there's only enough water on Earth's surface (useful water) to raise sea level by less than 1000 feet of elevation?
So, allow me present some scientific evidence: there could not have been a worldwide flood as described in the Bible because there is simply not enough water in the earth's atmospheric system to produce such a flood.
According to data from the U.S. Geological Survey, the amount of water in the earth's atmosphere could not possibly cover the earth.[11] In fact:
One estimate of the volume of water in the atmosphere at any one time is about 3,100 cubic miles (mi3) or 12,900 cubic kilometers (km3). That may sound like a lot, but it is only about 0.001 percent of the total Earth's water volume of about 332,500,000 mi3 (1,385,000,000 km3)
If all of the water in the atmosphere rained down at once, it would only cover the ground to a depth of 2.5 centimeters, about 1 inch.
Additionally, because only 1.7% of the earth's water is stored underground,[12] there is not nearly enough water in groundwater storage beneath the earth's surface to account for the amount of water necessary to flood the entire earth to the extent described in the Bible.
Simply put: there is not enough water in Earth's atmosphere to raise the ocean's levels over an inch, much less to cover Mt. Ararat with water from 40 days of rain. There is simply not that much water in the system.
Thus, in order to even entertain the possibility of a worldwide flood, one has to bypass all laws of physics, exit the realm of science, and enter into the realm of the miraculous, which many biblical literalists are willing to do. It is hypothetically possible that, say, the polar ice caps melted. This could raise the ocean levels beyond the 2.5 centimeters that all the earth's atmospheric water could were it to all rain down, but even then the thaw would only slightly affect the world's coastlines. Additionally, all scientific evidence points to larger polar ice caps in recent history, not smaller.