Basic geology 101 and the bibliolaters do not want to believe what is true about their various bible canons that differ for clear historical reasons.

@@letsomethingshine you seem ignorant on the Biblical Canon: but that isn't surprising!

@@LM-jz9vh Abraham was said to be born in Ur, in Sumeria. It would make perfect sense then that those stories of the flood are the same as those in Sumerian literature.

​@blllllllllllllllllllrlrlrlrlrllrr Yes, that's what the story says, but the reality is that the Sumerians wrote these stories (myths) first and the later Israelites borrowed them and modified them for their own theological purposes. The Sumerians pre-date the Israelites and their stories in the historical record. Sumerian texts date back to 3,500 to 3,000 BCE. Abraham is said to exist around 2,300 to 2,200 BCE. There are numerous examples of the Israelites borrowing and modifying stories for their own purposes. In addition, look up the below articles. *"Yahweh was just an ancient Canaanite god. We have been deceived! - Escaping Christian Fundamentalism"* *"Debunking the Devil - Michael A. Sherlock (Author)"* *"The Greatest Trick Religion Ever Pulled: Convincing Us That Satan Exists | Atheomedy"* *"Zoroastrianism And Persian Mythology: The Foundation Of Belief"* (Scroll to the last section: Zoroastrianism is the Foundation of Western Belief) *"10 Ways The Bible Was Influenced By Other Religions - Listverse"* *"January | 2014 | Atheomedy"* - Where the Hell Did the Idea of Hell Come From? Watch *"The Origins of Salvation, Judgement and Hell"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica (Sensitive theists should only watch from 7:00 to 17:30 minutes as evangelical Christians are lambasted. He's a former theist and has been studying the scholarship and comparative religions for over 15 years) *"Top Ten Reasons Noah’s Flood is Mythology - The Sensuous Curmudgeon"* *"Forget about Noah's Ark; There Was No Worldwide Flood | Bible Interp"* *"The Search for Noah’s Flood - Biblical Archaeology Society"* Watch *"How Aron Ra Debunks Noah's Flood"* (8 part series debunking Noah's flood using multiple branches of science) *"The Adam and Eve myth - News24"* *"Are The Ten Commandments Based On The Forty-Two Principles Of Maat That Appeared 2,000 Years Earlier? - Ancient Pages"* *"Before Adam and Eve - Psychology Today"* *"Gilgamesh vs. Noah - Wordpress"* *"Old Testament Tales Were Stolen From Other Cultures - Griffin"* *"Parallelism between “The Hymn to Aten” and Psalm 104 - Project Augustine"*

​@@blllllllllllllllllllrlrlrl7059 Also, the ancient Israelites were Canaanites or a mix thereof. According to the general consensus of scholarship *(even critical Christian scholars),* YHWH was originally incorporated into the Canaanite pantheon as a son of the Canaanite high god El before inheriting the top spot in the pantheon and El's wife Athirat (Asherah) before religious reforms. If you want to see if El is fictional, just read his mythology in the Ugaritic/Canaanite texts. "When El was young, he came across two beautiful Goddesses washing their clothes in the Sea. They were Athirat (Asherah) and the Goddess Rahmaya, and, after buttering them up by cooking a meal for them, he asked them to choose between being his daughters or wives. They choose the latter and became the mothers of the Gods Shachar "Dawn" and Shalim "Dusk"." "I should add here that it is very clear from the grammar that the noun nachalah in v. 9 should be translated “inheritance.” *Yahweh receives Israel as his “inheritance” (nachalah), just as the other sons of El received their nations as their inheritance (nachal, v. 8).* With this verb, especially in the Hiphil, the object is always what is being given as an inheritance. Thus, Israel is given to Yahweh as his inheritance. ((Here I’m indebted to Dan McClellan.)) It would make no sense for Elyon to give himself an inheritance. Moreover, as I’ve argued elsewhere, it is not just the Gentile nations that are divided up according to the number of the sons of El. It is all of humankind, i.e., “the sons of Adam.” This clearly includes Israel. And the sons of Adam are not divided up according to the number of the sons of El, plus one (i.e., plus Elyon). They are divided up, according to the text, solely according to the number of the sons of El. *Thus, that Yahweh receives Israel as his inheritance makes Yahweh one of the sons of El mentioned in v. 8. Any other construal of the text would constitute its rewriting."* *"The Most Heiser: Yahweh and Elyon in Psalm 82 and Deuteronomy 32 - Religion at the Margins"* based on the *majority scholarly consensus.* (Written by Thom Stark who is a Christian) *"Michael Heiser: A Unique Species? - Religion at the Margins"* (A second response to Michael Heiser) *"Excerpt from “Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan” by John Day - Lehi's Library."* *"The Table of Nations: The Geography of the World in Genesis 10 - TheTorah.com"* (Excluding the short narrative on Nimrod (vv. 8-12), which appears to be a later addition, Genesis 10 contains *70* names of nations or cities, a number that was symbolic of totality. Similarly, the descendants of Jacob were *70* in number (Gen 46:37; Exod 1:5), *as were the sons of the supreme Canaanite god El, with whom YHWH became equated.)* *"Mark Smith: Yahweh as El’s Son & Yahweh’s Ascendency - Lehi's Library"* (Mark Smith is a Catholic) *"God, Gods, and Sons (and Daughters) of God in the Hebrew Bible. Part III | theyellowdart"* *"02 | December | 2009 | Daniel O. McClellan - Psalm 82"* (Daniel McClellan is a Mormon) *"Elohim | Daniel O. McClellan"* (Refer to the article "Angels and Demons (and Michael Heiser)") *"God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible - Almost."* (Pay attention to whose wife Asherah (Athirat) is in the Ugaritic/Canaanite texts and how she became the wife of YHWH/Yahweh) *"Yahweh's Divorce from the Goddess Asherah in the Garden of Eden - Mythology Matters."* *"Married Deities: Asherah and Yahweh in Early Israelite Religion - Yahweh Elohim."* *"Asherah, God's Wife in Ancient Israel. Part IV - theyellowdart"* *"The Gates of Ishtar - El, was the original god of the bible."* *"The Gates of Ishtar - Anath in the Elephantine Papyri"* (It appears in addition to Asherah (Athirat) being the consort of Yahweh it also appears some Israelites also viewed the Canaanite goddess Anat(h) as Yahweh's consort) *"Canaanite Religion - New World Encyclopedia"* (Refer to the section "Relationship to Biblical Religion") *"The Syncretization of Yahweh and El : reddit/AcademicBiblical"* (For a good summary of all of the above articles) Watch Professor Christine Hayes who lectures on the Hebrew Bible at Yale University. Watch lecture 2 from 40:40 to 41:50 minutes, lecture 7 from 30:00 minutes onwards, lecture 8 from 12:00 to 17:30 minutes and lecture 12 from 27:40 minutes onwards. Watch *"Pagan Origins of Judaism"* by Sigalius Myricantur and read the description in the video to see the scholarship the video is based on. Watch *"How Monotheism Evolved"* by Sigalius Myricantur and watch up to at least 21:40. Watch *"Atheism - A History of God (The Polytheistic Origins of Christianity and Judaism)"* (By a former theist) Watch *"The Origins of Yahweh"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica.

Glad you found your way out. 🙋🏻‍♂️

​@@johnburn8031 Ihave no problem in a young earth or old but if you call the word of God indoctrination you need to review your spiritual strength

​@@johnburn8031 strange..doutrination is about the woke culture not the bible so you need to think about that

@Davi Jimi I didn't call the Bible indoctrination. That was the OP. Young earth creationism is ridiculous as is believing in a literal world wide flood. I'm not so against old earth creationism, but I find it an unnecessary hypothesis.

​@@davijimi lmao you Christians really are something. When someone leaves the faith its because he/she didn't believe enough? Or they just got tired of living right? Am sorry but its time for people to wake up from their slumber. These fairytales needs to stop. Religion doesn't make you think logically and rationally, almost as if it enjoys you being an idiot.

I'm guessing the guy doesn't believe the earth is hundreds of millions, let alone 4.5 billion, years old.

My guy completely ignored things like the La Brea tar pits.

​@@nasonguy - and peat bogs

And there are so many fossils that manifestly could not have come from a rapid event. There are literally fossilized worm burrows.

@@TacticusPrime and fossils that have been scavenged

I've never understood why young earth creationists attempt to use science to justify their beliefs. As you say, why not just invoke Yahweh's -magical- miraculous powers.

This also leads to the obvious issue with the question of “poof or drown”

@@bradleyperry1735 Does Yahweh need to eat the essence of his own foreskin also to remember himself? And drink his own ethanol-based blood?

Thanos only killed half the humans (and kittens) on the planet, and they didn't feel pain. Yahweh was much more monstrous, killing every human (and kitten) by torture.

​@@johnburn8031 Due to criticism and mockery against them, YEC have been trying to look more serious. That's why they changed to "Intelligent Design". It would be like transphobes and homophobes re-branding themselves as, I don't know, Gender Criticals or something like that.

I feel exactly the same. Glad to have found the channel.

​@@aubreyleonae4108 He is a satanic pawn and you fools are his subjects.😢😢😢

100%

Satan is quite fascinating

⁠How so?

The best content usually is.

How Satan is fooled! Did Satan know Jehovah God was going to resurrect Jesus from the dead! Even Satan believed " For it is Written" Satan quoted Psalms 91:11-12. Because he thought he knew the future. Lol Matthew 4:5 Then the Devil took him along into the holy city, and he stationed him on the battlement of the temple 6 and said to him: “If you are a son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written: ‘He will give his angels a command concerning you,’ and, ‘They will carry you on their hands, so that you may not strike your foot against a stone.’ 10 Then Jesus said to him: “Go away, Satan! For it is written: ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.’” Matthew 27:41 In the same way also, the chief priests with the scribes and the elders began mocking him, saying: 42 “Others he saved; himself he cannot save! He is King of Israel; let him now come down off the torture stake, and we will believe in him. 43 He has put his trust in God; let Him now rescue him if He wants him, for he said, ‘I am God’s Son.’” 46 About the ninth hour, Jesus called out with a loud voice, saying: “Eʹli, Eʹli, laʹma sa·bach·thaʹni?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 47 At hearing this, some of those standing there began to say: “This man is calling E·liʹjah.” 48 And immediately one of them ran and took a sponge and soaked it in sour wine and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. 49 But the rest of them said: “Let him be! Let us see whether E·liʹjah comes to save him.” 50 Again Jesus called out with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.

The Lamb of Almighty God! YHVH! Yehovah! Jehovah! Mark 16:8 In the Gospel of Mark. If the women tell no one then, Who is ! What each Gospel story is about.The four living creatures! Matthew Who was! Mark Who is! Luke Who is Coming! John The Lamb of YHVH! The four gospels are associated with the four living creatures: Matthew, the man, Mark the lion, Luke the ox, and John the eagle. John has Jesus dying on a different day. It's the Day of Preparation, not the Day of Preparation for Passover. It was the day they prepared the lambs for sacrifice. While at the same time, Jesus is prepared for sacrifice. Jesus is the Lamb of YHVH Yehovah Jehovah a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle. The man symbolises the prophet; the lion, kingship; the ox, priesthood, and the eagle, fatherhood.

A theory that is equally valid to the noachian deluge

@@archivalblob56 Yep. 🙂

Adam wasn't deceived. The ground did produce thorns and thistles because Jesus worn the crown of thorns and thistles. God told Adam the prophecy of the resurrection. Genesis 3:15 The Sacrifice of Jesus was the first part of the prophecy of Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring. He will crush your head, and you will bruise him in the heel.” Satan the Dragon and the Wild Beast the 6th Kingdom executed Jesus on their image the cross. It was the Roman Empire of Italy that is also the shape of the heel. So the first part of the prophecy is complete . Satan bruised Jesus in the heel.

The Ice Age and Sword! How about the myth of King Arthur after The Roman Empire made Christianity the State Religion. By using their image the Cross and teaching of the Trinity! Sun, moon and star worship. Revelation 17:17 The skies became darkened. In AD 536, the first of three massive volcanic eruptions ushered in a ice age. It coincided with an epidemic of the plague, the decline of the eastern Roman Empire, and sweeping upheavals across Eurasia. The 2nd seal of Revelation 6:5 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say: “Come!” 4 Another came out, a fiery-colored horse, and it was granted to the one seated on it to take peace away from the earth so that they should slaughter one another, and he was given a great sword. With the land bridge frozen to the Americas. Britain became the 7th Kingdom of Revelation. So what year did this Kingdom become the Wild Beast with two horns. The false prophet and wild beast arrived with the Great War of 1914.

🤔😂 Just as plausible?

I think the implication is that the survivors, Noah family's descendants, keep such record of the flood. This also doesn't make sense, as it would mean that they traveled to covered all the world, settled where other civilizations had existed, and continued their traditions, building techniques, using their languages, etc, and ignoring everything they should have know. Nevermind the genetic trail doesn't match.

Exactly! It makes no sense if you devote even 1% brain power thinking about it. People are just plain gullible.

You just leave out "thinking" 😆

Stories get passed from person to person over vast distances over long periods of time. As a result there are similar stories found amongst different peoples on opposite sides of the globe. When these stories are not also found in the Bible religious folks like this say that they're just made up stories, but when they are they say they're proof that the Bible is true.😂

This is called rationalism. There is simply no need to come up with a plausible explanation of a story like this. How about it’s just made up. Maybe there were floods but none of the characters or the giant ark need to be explained, they are just part of a fiction.

YES! The Nakh tribe experienced that particular flood. Ian Wilson's "Before the Flood" speaks about all that you wrote in full detail. After the Black Sea flood, the Nakh tribe began the vine industry near the Caucasus mountains - which confirms the statement in the Bible: "Noah planted a vine". Genesis 6:4 sons of God and daughters of men are the priestesses and kings of the Black Sea region that followed the Great Mother goddess instead of Yahweh. That civilization and religion in that region was destroyed by the Black Sea Flood.

Religion in a nutshell. 😉

Pangea mentioned in the Bible? The Bible corresponds with the Pangaea theory when it states, "And God said, 'Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. And it was so" (Genesis 1:9). 2 Peter 3:5 For they deliberately ignore this fact, that long ago there were heavens and an earth standing firmly out of water and in the midst of water by the word of God; 6 and that by those means the world of that time suffered destruction when it was flooded with water.

Now you can honestly say, I once was lost but now I'm found!

Im Christian and I dont believe the flood is what they make it.

No evidence of the flood and the physics debunks the fairytale. But your point about building it etc is correct.

Especially out of wood, a wooden structure that big would have immediately fallen apart.

Because they're not arguments. They're just flimsy excuses meant to give the miniscule justification necessary for fanatics to believe their faith is rational. They don't have to be convincing, because they're aimed at people who are already convinced.

"How did bears, elk, cougars, armadillos, etc get to the Middle East to catch the Ark before the flood?" The bigger question, to me, is how did sloths get to South America? If you watch creationist videos, they like to mock the hypothesis that monkeys got to the new world on a vegetation raft. But, surprisingly, they never actually give THEIR explanation for how they got there after the flood. We have New World Monkeys in South America. Somehow, those monkeys got to South America after the flood. What is the creationist explanation for how that happened? But now back to sloths. Sloth bodies are such that they cannot metabolize food at a fast rate. The reason sloths move so slowly is because they can not get enough energy to move any faster. At their fastest, they can only go at a speed of about 300 feet per day. It's not that they are lazy, their bodies cannot metabolize food fast enough to give them the energy to go any faster. So now, after the flood, the sloth needs to get back to South America. Why does the sloth need to go to South America? Don't even ask that, because there is no reason at all. But still, they are in South America so somehow they go there. How? Let's guess....a land bridge across the Bering Strait. Ok. Now, the sloth gets off the ark and goes full speed for South America (let's give them Central America to be generous) via the land bridge. How long does it take for them to get there? 1000 years. Yep, a sloth on a mission from Turkey to South America would take 1000 years to get there. At that point, the vegetation raft carrying monkeys for a couple of weeks/months doesn't seem so unreasonable.

The Bible NEVER claimed a worldwide flood. Local animals. The word is "eretz" - the same word used in the Genesis 1 creation. This is simply just an undoing of the Day 6 setup of Genesis 1 - humans. Genesis 1 is TEMPLE liturgy.There was no intent to literally address the entire planet. The sons of God and daughters of men was a RELIGIOUS setup of priestesses and kings of the mother Goddess. Yahweh was putting an end to that system while the Nakh tribe survived and started the vine industry near the Caucasus mountains. The Black Sea Flood was enough to accomplish all this.

Noah would not have survived a week, the methane gas would kill everything.

So many assumptions stated as facts.😂

My friend, god miraculously protected them and the ark, lol. You can't approach this logically.

God protected Noah's Ark & plants had started growing by the time they left the ark, so Noah's Ark didn't get destroyed and there clearly was enough food. Basically you have to have the supernatural for it to be possible. "Proven" science has actually shown itself to be pretty fallible. Scientists have to have a load of faith to believe in many of their theories and facts that actually have huge holes in them.

@@rickiestubbs8779 I say unless you can observe something as it happened you can't 100% prove / disprove anything. Everyone has to have faith in whatever they believe.

Would YOU live next to a T. Rex (except the one that was mentioned by David Bowie in a song he gave to Matt The Hoople)?

@@davidweihe6052 So you think fossils found in the same geological strata lived next to each other?

@@homophilosofikus8215 No, but you seem to.

@@davidweihe6052 Seems you missed the sarcasm of my first comment

The answer would be that since ALL the peoples around the world descended from Noah, they would have all taken with them the story but the details of when and how it happened would have changed as it got told and retold.

@@rizdekd3912 so what do you think about Population Genetics and DNA evidence of human migration across the planet. If accurate that would throw a wrench in the story don’t you think. Just wondering

@@perrydoerr8668 Of for sure this Bible based worldwide flood never happened. I was only playing the devil's advocate for the puzzle you posed.

And they had children, who could ask their grannys and grandpas. Thus, in my family, there are stories about Big Bill, my paternal great-grandfather who was a steel union official who then commuted to Ellis Island from Pittsburgh (weekly, not daily) until he died in his 50s.

We don't have that many well preserved fossils though. Population estimates of dinos, etc, are based on large multiplication of the incomplete skeletons we do manage to find. It's a miracle when lucifer lets us find even one fully complete skeleton. lucifer loves the attention he gets from haters thanks to all bibliolatries, which iblis/lucifer has obviously inspired, anyone with a second thought can understand this bibliolatries have caused great evil, even when favorite interpretations/metaphors are chosen instead of the literal words.

@@letsomethingshine I mean, we have approximately the amount of fossils that are expected it they were formed by many natural processes across millions and billions of years, as opposed to the zero fossils that would be left if a global flood simultaneously atomized and vaporized everything on the surface of the Earth within seconds of its start. Not the least of which is because there would be no humans or animals who would have survived to have repopulated the Earth through an inevitably debilitating amount of incest to have eventually discovered the concept of fossils, much less fossil evidence.

Ecclesiastes 12:12...my son, be warned: To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh. 13 The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard, is: Fear the true God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole obligation of man. 14 For the true God will judge every deed, including every hidden thing, as to whether it is good or bad.

@@strappedfatman7858 Fatman Did you know that much of the of the wisdom of Ecclesiasties was copied from Greek stoicism.. So you quoting a so called scripture that otherwise you had no idea that it was not uniquely inspired has no relevance..

@@douglasgrant8315 Do you believe the Greeks!

@@strappedfatman7858 Yes I believe the Greeks I also believe that they are human beings and not God nor agents of God.. Tell me fatman if the bible said that unicorns are real would you believe it just because the Bible says so?

@douglasgrant8315 Joseph - Imhotep - Thoth - Hermes! Hermes, the Greek god of interpretive communication, was combined with Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom. The Egyptian priest and polymath Imhotep had been deified long after his death and therefore assimilated to Thoth in the classical and Hellenistic periods. When the Greeks learned that the Egyptians had a god Thoth, or Tehuti, who specialized in wisdom and learning, they named him Hermes Trismegistus, or “thrice greatest Hermes.” Supposedly Hermes Trismegistus was the scribe of the gods who authored the sacred hermetic works that described the material world as well as the quest for spiritual perfection. Altar and Pillar Isaiah 19:19 Revelation 5:5 Imhotep - Joseph the same person who built the step pyramid. Acts 7:10... God gave him favor before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. God also gave Joseph unusual wisdom, so that Pharaoh appointed him ruler over all of Egypt and put him in charge of everything he owned. The Great Pyramid has 8 sides. The 8 sides represent the 8 kingdoms of the world. Jesus is the corner stone. The last kingdom to rule forever. There is actually ten sides counting top and bottom. First Empire was Nimrod. Who represents Babylon the Great, the Empire of false religion. The bottom of the pyramid is a side. All eight Kingdoms of Revelation ride with the harlot, Babylon the Great. Revelation 17:17 The Great Pyramid having no top corner stone, and the top being flat is the Harlot. Jesus is the cornerstone the builders rejected. The Nations would rather follow the Harlot than Jesus. Revelation 17:9 “This calls for a mind that has wisdom: The seven heads mean seven mountains, where the woman sits on top. 10 And there are seven kings: Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet arrived; but when he does arrive, he must remain a short while. 11 And the wild beast that was but is not, it is also an eighth king, but it springs from the seven, and it goes off into destruction. Matthew 21:42 Jesus said to them: “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the chief cornerstone. This has come from Jehovah, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? 43 This is why I say to you, the Kingdom of God will be taken from you and be given to a nation producing its fruits. What does the Sphinx really represent. Because Jesus is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Isaiah 19:19 In that day there will be an altar to Jehovah in the middle of the land of Egypt and a pillar to Jehovah at its boundary. 20 It will be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry out to Jehovah because of the oppressors, and he will send them a savior, a grand one, who will save them. Revelation 5:5 But one of the elders said to me: “Stop weeping. Look! The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered so as to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

No Flood was not 6000 years ago. it is made up fiction.

The Younger Dryas event, which pretty much ended the Global Ice Maximum and started the Interglacial Period that we haved lived in, occurred about 13,000 years ago, not one hundred thousand years ago.

YES PLEASE!

What Dan said is an extremely condensed recap of science that can be found in any textbook. And school textbooks are a distillation of hundreds if not thousands of research papers. He didn’t make any very specific, possibly controversial, statement which can be traced back to one or few sources. I honestly don’t see how he could go about posting sources even if he would. Imo it’s like asking “can you post sources about the earth being round?”. It’s such a basic science fact that the difficulty is there’s too many sources. If your aim is personal growth watching science videos on KZfaq is an easy, fun and cheap way to achieve it. I am sure I have watched videos on all the topics Dan mentioned, from the formation of the Himalayas, to how fossils are formed, from gigantic glaciers floods to ancient near East cosmology. I am always surprised to see how Dan, whose expertise is in biblical studies, is able to give such a clear, correct and yet succinct explanation of the science. Truly remarkable combination of vast knowledge and excellent teaching skills.

​@@pansepot1490you are correct 💯

@Davi Jimi can't answer my questions? Cat got your tongue 😝😹?

Become a Patreon! Help put all the academic sources listed anywhere you want that good funding can afford!

Btw the lost civilization of Mu lays slap in the middle of the Atlantic.

CORRECT!

The epic of gilgamesh is right there tho. There could certainly be some cross cultural stories since we do know the two areas traded.

Their god was thirsty

I assume they are referring to how many types of rocks actually bind to water, so it’s just in a molecular state, not in any specific phase because it exists as many individual water molecules within the rock. And there are many different ways that this functions, this is vastly oversimplified

It lasted various periods of time, if you read the TNK/OT in full for all the different versions/numbers of days. I heard one rabbi say there are 4 different flood gospels in the TNK. Christians did not want to notice this because it becomes even more clear that BOTH their pagan and Christian parents and ancestors all the way back were always liars onto themselves.

Mostly agreed, although I'm inclined to disagree with your point in parentheses. I would argue that the Author, and/or the Culture & Society of the Author, in all most-probable likelihood, did Not understand it to be a myth. Many people of Other cultures & societies, like perhaps the Greeks, would have understood that, but the ancient Hebrews or the even-more-ancient Babylonians & Sumerians? Nah. In fact, the entire Cosmological 'Model' of the Israelites (as pointed out by Dan in this video) was based on misunderstandings, ignorance, and incredulity toward Natural Forces; explained the "Heavens & Earth" as effectively a Literal Snowglobe under an Enormous Ocean. And they almost undoubtedly saw the entire world as being Much Much MUCH Smaller than it actually is, especially in light of their lack of fast long-distance travel. And hence the idea that a Large, but Absolutely Local, Flood constituted "Global Divine Punishment".

Myths can be true. You have the wrong definition of myths. It comes from Greek and derives from the word "thoughts". Equating myth with being false is a modern setup.

Um... how did you come to this conclusion?

Huh

What is to forgive? You blew the proper capitalization, but Dryas is spelled correctly. And the sea level going up hundreds of feet is hardly “smaller localized flooding”.

The authors believed plants would be unafected. The first signal of the water receeding was a dove that returned to the ark with a healthy olive tree branch. Yep, they didn't know better, but we do, that's why its amusing how it is possible for grown men of today to take that stories at face value.

@@juanausensi499 Yeah, for sure. When the fields flood here in the spring, they don't come back growing olive trees. I looked it up - it takes 18 months for an olive seed to grow into just a seedling. So it would take that long after the waters subsided just to get an olive leaf. A year long flood would do massive damage to all vegetation.

Noah didn't drink, smoke or have a high cholesterol diet. He also swam every day and did yoga. Why is a life of 600 years so hard for you to believe? 🤣

Additionally, according to the text, Noah lived another three hundred and fifty years after the Flood to the ripe old age of 950. (Genesis 9:28-29)

That’s interesting. I always just assumed it was something to do with the end of the ice age

​@@Jd-808 wrong he's lying the stories just talk about the global flood and yes there is research on this evidence I recommend channel dr James tour standing with the truth and research on global flood stories

Wrong he's lying The stories talk about The global flood and yes There's a research on this evidence i recomendo Channel Dr James tour, standing with The truth and search about research on global flood stories on KZfaq or internet

@@Jd-808 That would be a major case of local floods, but that was 20,000 years ago, seemingly too long before the first writing. In some cases the flooding from the ice age effectively didn’t end for some societies, because it raised the sea level relatively rapidly, so some groups would have had to move to where they could live with the new level

@@scienceexplains302 I don’t think that tying the origin point of flood stories to writing makes a lot of sense. Nearly all flood stories from primitive civilizations were passed down by oral tradition over an undetermined amount of time. The various aboriginal tribes in Australia for example all had some version of a flood myth that survived from antiquity all the way until the 19th century even though none of them developed a system of writing before contact with European settlers.