Here is a small speach I wrote when i was Freshman.
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The Great Flood or Not??
Swoosh! Thousands of animals in huge Ark. A man and his family, alone take care of these animals for 40 days and nights. How? Could 8 people take care of 1000’s of animals? How did the animals know how to find the Ark?
What is the biblical belief for this event? What is the scriptures opinion on the flood? What about the vast accounts of floods all dated back to the same time around the world. How can this be explained. .
I. How did Noah and his family take care of all these animals, and how did he find all of them or they find him?
1. The Creationist believe that Noah only took one species of each animal, but how can this be? Creationists claim that the animals change back into species after the flood, but wouldn’t that be evaluation? There is no way that Noah could have found all the animals in the world. Penguins and Polar Bears have to have cold climates or they will die.
What are the beliefs of the People who believe in the flood, and what are the skeptics?
Well the people who believe in the great flood say that “All animals of earth came to the Arch, but the bible never says this. This is the scripture from the bible from the book of Genesis Ch 6: v 19-22.
“and every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the arch…. And thou take into thee if all food that is eaten, and it shall be food for thee and for them. Thus did Noah; according to al that go commanded him so he did.”
So how could Noah travel all around the world, even of he did travel every day of his life, all 120 years of it. It is impossible to do even with out technology today it is still impossible. There are still thousands of animals in the Amazon that we haven’t even discovered yet!
The skeptics belief.
First they agree with what I have just explained about how Noah could not collect two of every animal in the world.., but if the flood did happen lets say 4000-5000 year’s ago what about all the ancient artifacts of that era. The great pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge. Even if the Pyramids were built after the flood had happened it does not fit into a timeline. Noah’s flood happened lets say 4000-5000 years ago. First the population would have to happen and people would have to get all the way to Egypt. This would take hundreds of years. They had to travel all the way from Turkey, and they would be spreading out all over no just to Egypt. After they settle in Egypt they would have to create government and have a Pharaoh. So far we are already up to 900 years after the flood. You might be asking were is all this leading up to? Lets say we put the end of the flood at 5000 years ago, we are at the year 4100 right now The great Pyramid of Giza was build in the year 4000B.C. But Pharaoh Khufu was not the first Pharaoh we know that there were over 5 Pharos before him each ruling tell death and there life span is about 60 years. Now we are in the year 3800 which is 200 years after the Pyramids of Giza was built. The great Pyramid took over 100 years to build so that is 300 years after when Giza was made. So if the Pyramids did go though the flood there are not sings of erosion on the pyramids.
Mass Graves.
With billions of animals perishing from the flood happened we would have mass graves… But we don’t. Some creationist say that the flood destroyed the dinosaurs which I find hard to believe that since we haven’t found any human remains, such as bones or hair inside dinosaurs stomachs. We haven’t found any of the prehistoric animals, such as the sloth, that use to be over ten feet tall. Or the dragonfly, which use to have wings four feet across, with any human remains in them.
Accounts of floods all over the world.
The floods records were found in a temple in Mesopotamia, they were translated and put into the book of Genesis. Some of the words have been twisted to agree with creation in that God created the huge flood. First the word flood in Maoretic Hebrew, only means a local flood, as described in the stone that was found in the temple.
Creationist claim that if there wasn’t a great flood, then why does almost every civilization in the world have a record of some type of flood?
National Geographic has answered these questions for me.
Ancient Greeks and Romans - A story of Deucalion and Pyhrra who saved there children and a collection of animals aboard a vessel shaped like a box.
Irish legend about a Queen named Cesair and her court who sailed for 7 years to avoid a flood. Also these is a Native American legend that is similar to that of the flood.
The explanation? William Ryan and Walter Pitman from the Columbia University
who are geologists have answered these questions for me. About 12000 years ago ice started melting form he northern hemisphere that was made form the Ice Age. As the ice melted the oceans started to swell up causing floods. Also one is a flood that happened in Mesopotamia 7000 years ago. This was caused by sea water flooding and going up north. The one I believe to be what the flood is based on is when the Tigris and Ufraties rivers flooded into Mesopotamia. I think that this flood was recorded and that is was told as a story which evenly lead up to what we call “the Great Flood” now.
So I hope that maybe you have learned some things about Noah’s Flood that you might now of know before about how it is impossible for the animals to get on the arch, what is the biblical belief and the skeptics belief of the flood, and about accounts of floods all over the world.