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Posted on 04/16/2002 12:12:59 PM PDT by Good Tidings Of Great Joy
Not a chance. Let's go from another angle. If the Mediterranean Ocean was blocked at Gilbraltar during the Ice Age it would have likely dried out quite a bit and have had a greatly reduced water level for perhaps thousands of years.(Many communities/cities would have been built on the shore line). If and when the water broke through the 'plug' at Gilbralter (there is scouring on the ocean flood to support this idea) it would have begun a slow flooding of the coastal communities of the Mediterranean ocean.
There would have been thousands (maybe millions) of refugees streaming all over the place escaping their flooded coastal cities.
Word would have reached Noah that the whole world was flooding. At some point, the plug at the Bosporus would have blown and began to create even more panic and refugees and certainly confirmed the reports and rumors of a catastrophic flood.
Noah, in his wisdom, could see that the Black Sea was rising at one foot per day and probably estimated the height at which he had to begin to build the Ark (big, big,ship) so that he could complete it before the rising water reached the building site.....and that's why it's way up on the mountain. The water never reached it because the Black Sea and the Mediterranean reached equilibrium with the waters of the worlds oceans.
Another possibility is that Noah could have started building the Ark when reports of flooding in the Mediterranean began to arrive. The flooding of the Mediterranean could/would have changed weather/climate patterns and created the 'forty days and forty nights' of rain story recorded in the bible and an explanation for all the flooding that was apparent.
I would think that the higher up, the less the avalanche activity just because it would be colder. I'm thinking that the seasonal margins would see the most activity.
This one? Watch out. It's spicy. But if not spicy enough for you, you can add this:
Bon apitite!
I firmly believe that even if the remains of Noah's Ark were discovered and proven beyondf a shadow of a doubt to be authentic, no atheist or agnostic would change their mind. Not one. You either have faith - or you don't. Physical proof of one bible account, important as it is, would not sway those who wish to reject God, Christ and the bible. It would be argued about for centuries and the 'O.J. defense' would probably dominate.
Yes, the ark is real and thousands of years old but how we know it's THE ark in the bible? Maybe it's some OTHER ark from a later time....and so on, until the Lord's coming. Let it go, folks.
Except for the arrow through the lung and the fact that he was dead, he was in good health generally.
The Gilgamesh story was the same Black Sea flood story.( told by two different groups of people) It is informative to know that the whole area at this time was very arid except right along the coast of this freshwater lake. When it was flooded with saltwater, this created thousands/millions(?)of refugees who fled in all directions and especially up the river valleys and on into Mesopatania(sp). Some think these refugees are the carriers of agriculture all over Europe. Also, linguists have traced the origins of all Indo-European languages to this region. This was a traumatic and memorable time for many, many people.
I was pointing out the obvious problems with the assumption that the site on Mt. Ararat was a likely candidate for being the resting place of the biblical ark; it is clearly a poor candidate (at least as far as finding any evidence is concerned). I'm pretty agnostic about the whole thing, and tend to go with the Gilgamesh plagerism theory as being the most probable.
Noah's Flood was a couple thousand years before the Iceman. (He may have been a descendent of some of the refugees?)
Yep, I think so too.
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