There is so much to say about the account of Noah that shows it to be phoney. But from just a single angle it can be safely concluded that it is just a pack of nonsense.
Genesis chapter 5:
- Noah is listed as the 10th generation from Adam.
- Adam was 130 when he became a father.
- Seth was 105 when he became a father.
- Enosh was 90 when he became a father.
- Kenan was 70 when he became a father.
- Mahalalel was 75 when he became a father.
- Jared was 162 when he became a father.
- Enoch was 65 when he became a father.
- Methuselah was 187 when he became a father.
- Lamech was 182 when he became a father.
- Noah was 500 when he became a father.
The average age for the first child in the first 9 was 118.4 years. Now assuming that for some reason these very viril, healthy men, who had been given the commission by God to 'fill the earth' waited until they were well into their first century of life before they married, this might make sense.
But then along comes Noah. He doesn't have any children till he is 500. Then he has three and stops at that. His kids live for a hundred years and do get married, but never have any children until after the flood.
How is this possible? There was no effective birth control, and in fact, birth control was prohibited by God. When they copulated, they populated. And they surely wanted to, and did, copulate. How did Noah manage to go 500 years without any children? Then another 100 with no children? How did his kids go 100 years without any children? Didn't wives [according to a scripture in Genesis] desire children to be fulfilled? How did these women allow centuries to go by without demanding children?
Just a few years later, Lot's daughters were so concerned with bearing children that they forced Lot into incest in order to assure it. Are we to imagine that Noah's wife was so complacent about the matter that she waited 500 years to conceive?
One could go on and on.
The entire premise is just foolish if one dares look carefully.
Thoughts?
Jeff