Noah and the Ice Age
Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 4:02 am
Nice title for a thread huh?
I was recently reading about Prophets and their struggles and came across this:
So I was thinking, if all you scientific types feel that the same evidence you have for an Ice age could be applied to Noahs flood?
Thanks
Gaz
I was recently reading about Prophets and their struggles and came across this:
If we fancy Noah riding the sunny seas high, dry, and snug in the ark, we have not read the record - the long, hopeless struggle against entrenched mass resistance to his preaching, the deepening gloom and desperation of the years leading up to the final debacle, then the unleashed forces of nature with the family absolutely terrified, weeping and praying "because they were at the gates of death," as the ark was thrown about with the greatest violence by terrible winds and titanic seas.(1) Albright's suggestion that the flood story goes back to "the tremendous floods which must have accompanied successive retreats of the glaciers"(2) is supported by the tradition that the family suffered terribly because of the cold, and that Noah on the waters "coughed blood on account of the cold."(3) The Jaredites had only to pass through the tail end of the vast storm cycle of Noah's day, yet for 344 days they had to cope with "mountain waves" and a wind that "did never cease to blow" (Ether 6:6, 8). Finally Noah went forth into a world of utter desolation, as Adam did, to build his altar, call upon God, and try to make a go of it all over again, only to see some of his progeny on short order prefer Satan to God and lose all the rewards that his toil and sufferings had put in their reach.
(1) Bin Gorion, Sagen der juden, 1:186.
(2) Albright, Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan, 99
(3) Genesis Rabbah, 32:11, in Midrash Rabbah: Genesis, trans. Harry Freedman (London: Soncino 1939), 1:256.
So I was thinking, if all you scientific types feel that the same evidence you have for an Ice age could be applied to Noahs flood?
Thanks
Gaz