Drifting wrote:Samantabhadra wrote:
And sub, there is good physical evidence (not just textual) in support of a massive flood in Mesopotamia some 4-5000 years ago.
Such as?
Drift...countless proofs have been provided by me in previous threads (
for example), all without your rebuttal, so likely this means you agree.
But let us look at some key points, in a short short list just to get the ball rolling:
Logical
evidence1. It is very unlikely that a "localized" area experienced rain for 40 day/night.
2. The rainbow's first appearance reinforces the notion that a cataclysmic event took place. Otherwise, its just business as usual...but this was a dramatic atmospheric event.
3. Local flood would not remain in place for a year
4. A local flood could not destroy all the living things upon the earth
5. The indicated design size of the ark is way too excessive for just local species of animals.
6. Spending over a century to build an ark in unlikely if Noah could have just relocated to an area away form the flood.
7. If God
lied about the flood then He is in fact not God and unable to provide salvation.
Science
evidence1. The glacial period began quickly, which would require a cataclysmic event to trigger such a global climate change...the flood is a possible event as that trigger.
2. The geologic record indicates many identical features across varied ages of rocks, indicating a certain event, such as a flood, may have occurred.
3. The Paleontology record indicates that the global climate was warm and humid, indicative of a flood event.
4. The global distribution of fossil graveyards
5. The rapid covering of animal footprints on the geologic column
6. The global distribution of river terraces
7. Only modern sedimentary layers show evidence of surface drainage
8. The near-random deposition of formational sequences
9. Historically raised shorelines
10. Human artifacts that would be from pre-flood dates are currently undiscovered and thus inaccessible anywhere.
11. The scientific community actually has not discounted the probability that a global flood did occur, just not sure about how or when.
12. Ballard and Pittman's discoveries under the Black Dea
13. Masse's comet theory
14. There are no living organisms today that are older than the date of the flood (ie Redwood trees)
and aside from the obvious references in the Old Testament, the New Testament continues to reference that the flood had occurred...see the books of Job, Matthew, Luke, Peter, and Hebrews.
So, while there is a mound of scriptural, logical, archaeological, and scientific evidence which can easily be concluded to support the occurrence of a global flood....many people, such as yourself, seem to reside on the idea that since no one posted a youtube video of the flood then surely it did not, nor could not, have happened.....which is actually the funnier notion and ultimately is yet another indicator of why many atheists and their ilk are in such an incredibly minority in the "global" population....little genetic defects they are.
