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Originally posted by Xyress Is it also possible that a giant flood appeared to cover the whole world, but in fact only covered what the people of that time knew of the world? They hadn't exactly discovered America yet ... but God surely knew of it. It is interesting that the Chinese word for "ship" consists of the symbols "boat", "eight", "mouths". Sure, it's possible that a legend or two was the result of a massive local flood... but not to the degree that the story of a world-wide flood is found in cultures all over the earth. If the Ark is "found" at some point, here's the problem - it would have to be big enough to hold every species on this planet ... well, 2 of each (including all fresh water fish). How big would it have to be? The Bible does not state that fresh-water fish were taken aboard the ark. Fish and insects have a remarkable ability to survive even extremely adverse conditions. As for the number of animals, it has been pointed out that while we have millions of species of birds and mammals and other critters today... the actual number of pairs that would have been required to exist in order to produce that multitude of varieties would have been comparatively very few. (They didn't need every type of dog... just one or two basic dog-pairs from which all other dogs came). Consider too the size of the ark. Most people don't realize just how big that thing was. If you were to take the average bathroom bathtub and stack them end to end in the ark, you could fit about 38,000+ of the things in there. There are so many things wrong with that story if it is to be believed literally that if I listed them all here, my post would be as long as yours ;) (only joking!) Cute. It's just that messages with the extreme quality which mine exhibit require excessive linquistic proliclivity. 1) What happened to everyone else that owned a ship? It is unlikely that any such ships (if there was indeed, anything in those days beyond basic fishing boats) would have been designed to withstand such a massive torrent. (Even storms today can exhibit waves in excess of 100 ft. Imagine what the flood brought on). 2) How were all of the animals, insects, birds, fresh water fish gathered and then redistributed to their respective continents? The Bible states that God himself gathered them and brought them to Noah. It stands to reason then, that He would also have a redistribution method. 3) How did Noah withstand the torrential downpour required to cover Mt. Everest in 40 days?

People take it for granted that the topography in Noah's day was exactly the same as it is today. A flood of that kind would have caused major changes in the earth's layout. It is quite possible that the earth was much "flatter" before the torrents of the flood caused the earth's crust to "crack"... producing major mountains and deep ocean rifts. We also have to take into consideration that God himself may have caused land upheavals in order to bring dry ground up out of all that water.

One of the mistakes people often make in examining the flood... is that they automatically discount the very direct hand of God in the matter.

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