A thread started by Realist which mentioned the flood and the disappearance of the dinosaurs got me thinking. Since I do not own a bible I had to download one from the Internet to check a few things out (my computer is really pissed at me now). It's been many years since I read the bible but I needed to be accurate in my research to ask my question. For those who have read my posts in the past you will be as shocked as I am to see me cutting and pasting bible verses. After this post I hope to regain my seances and try never do it again.
I have a question about timing, natural events, logic, and a little math. Before I ask the question the following verses need to be read. If any of you bible believers have an answer for me I would appreciate it. Just writing this off as another miracle of god isn't going to cut it so I would like an answer based on evidence and logical reasoning. I have always thought that if the story of Noah's flood could be proven to me as an absolute historic and scientific fact that I would change my entire view of the bible and god.
Here is the scriptures in question:
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 8:4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 8:5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 8:11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
Now,...From the time Noah supposedly sent out the dove the first time and the earth was still covered in water and the second time when it brought back an olive leaf one week went by. My questions are, since olive trees grow in warm climates and low lands and need sunlight to grow, how can an olive tree that has been buried under water for almost a year dry out, and produce a leaf on one of its branches in less than one week? That is assuming it only took one day from when the dove was first sent out for the earth to completely dry out. Why didn't an olive tree die after being under water (possibly salt water) for a year? Why did it take 40 days and 40 nights to completely flood the earth and only a couple of days to make all that water disappear from the mountain tops to the basin below where olive trees grow? Why weren't any of the dinosaurs taken on the ark? If you say they were all dead before the flood what killed them? And my last few questions are how did indigenous animals like the kangaroo get from Turkey to Australia and leave absolutely no evidence by the way of bones in the path of that journey? Why are some animals and insects only indigenous to certain places including islands thousands of miles out in the middle of the oceans and how did they all get there from Turkey? And last of all, with what seems to be one of the most important historical events that happened on this earth why hasn't evidence of the ark been proven without a doubt? If they can find dinosaur carcasses with vegetation still in their stomachs that predate the flood why not the ark? There has been roomers about it being found but no earth shattering evidence, why?
Scientific proof would be appreciated here. I will have a hard time excepting a myth as an explanation of another myth.
Take care,
Dave