From Fox News:
Saddened by the wickedness of man, God directs the righteous Noah to build an ark for his family and two of each species of animal.
Together, they ride the ark through 40 days and 40 nights of torrential rains that God unleashes upon the Earth. And when the waters subside, Noah and the animals return to land.
“That seems almost like a fairy story,” said archaeologist Randall Price, who is director of Liberty University’s new Center for Judaic Studies. “But we believe it was an actual event.”
Teh stoooopid… it burns! What in Odin’s name keeps people believing in such rubbish in this day and age?
“Keep your ear to the road, so to speak, this summer,” he said. “Because there will be discovery. The only thing that’s holding us back is to finance the machinery that we need.”
Ah. There it is. Money.
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No one ever explains where all that water went after The Flood.
Since the peak of Mount Ararat is 13,780 feet above sea level, we have to account for around 10,000 feet of missing water depth.
>No one ever explains where all that water went
Actually, they do. The three I’ve seen most commonly:
1) God miracled it away
2) It flooded into underground caverns
3) Before the flood, the earth was perfectly smooth, so a foot of rain woudl leave a foot of water coverign the Earth. As the flood ran its course, the earth sorta “pruned,” and the water pooled into the oceans.
All these seem to ignore 4) It just a fable.
Quote taken out of context? Perhaps he just meant that an enormous flood actually took place and not that pairs of animals were saved in a large boat. This makes an interesting read:
Noah’s Flood
Ryan and Pitman
Simon and Schuster, 1999
ISBN 0-684-86137-2
Mike