Did A Comet Cause The Great Flood?

Discover Magazine ^ | 11-15-2007 | Scott Carney

[SteamShovel]

if we believe in miracles, (which I do) He could have diverted the comet had they repented at Noah’s proclamation of righteousness.

Or the comet could have been on a non-collision course unti God diverted it INTO a collision course.

I don't see this theory as contradictory to scripture at all.

[SteamShovel]

Ridiculous. Noah’s flood was caused by God.

Why is it not possible (in your opinion) that this is HOW God caused the flood?

[glorgau]

I was being facetious. The bible thumpers have an enormous ability for self delusion.

[rdl6989]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/science/14WAVE.html?pagewanted=all

[SteamShovel]

I was being facetious.

OK, I couldn't help but ask. I always approach these debates with caution. Everyone is so touchy. Thanks for understanding it was just a question!

[ari-freedom]

I noticed that during the great indonesian tsunami, many animals survived. Turned out that they were able to anticipate it ahead of time and escaped to higher ground.

[ari-freedom]

yeah I made a mistake. I thought of a bunch of other reasons why there is no problem with the idea that the universe was ‘set up’ to punish evil.

[Windcatcher]

I got halfway through it and couldn’t take it any more. They’re DEAD WRONG about gravitational fields—a supermassive black hole’s gravity well does NOT spread out into a thin disc merely because it is spinning. Tell them to get their money back for their Modern Physics course. If we want to talk about the increased likelihood of gravitational perturbations to our Oort cloud because of passing through a region of increased mass density, that’s one thing (which is on a 30 MYr cycle, by the way), but it has NOTHING to do with the supermassive black hole. Talk about junk science...

[ari-freedom]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4136485.stm

[gleeaikin]

Check out parallel information on the Graham Hancock Forum and related sites.

[Mike Darancette]

It may be discovered that bad things happen to this planet a lot more often than previous thought. The world dodged a bullet in 1908.

[shibumi]

"The God of the Biblical flood is all-knowing, and exists outside of time. So, there is no "before," other than from our own, linear, historical perspective, which even science is beginning to admit is more akin to an illusion."


You have no idea how many times I have tried to explain that to believers and non-believers alike, only to meet with stony stares and non-sequitur responses.



..... and if you think that's a tough concept to get across, try explaining that the "stuff" we're made of really doesn't exist either, no matter how many "strings" physics tries to tie it together with.

[Tenniel2]

I have a supplemental suggestion for Dr. Melosh: learn the difference between "impetus" and "onus."

When allegedly educated people can't use language properly, the slippery slope of dumbification just gets steeper. Sooner rather than later we'll all end up in a jumbled heap at the bottom of it.

[49th]

“..... and if you think that’s a tough concept to get across, try explaining that the “stuff” we’re made of really doesn’t exist either, no matter how many “strings” physics tries to tie it together with.”

I’m sorry, I don’t follow... is this a reference to the fact that all matter is essentially energy or what?

[Salamander]

Tom Fury knows!

[shibumi]

Yeah, sorta, kinda.......

(From my electro-magnetic holographic fractal reality to yours.......mine happens to be Plato’s aetheric Jungian cave, decorated eclectically, with Sibelius #2 in D Minor playing in the background. Uniform of the day is jungle fatigues.)

[shibumi]

Oh.....by the way, thst’s MAJOR Tom Fury, thank you!

[Kozak]

But like every other secular “scientific” organization or publication they discount the possibility that it was caused by divine intervention in mankind’s history.

Uh thats because science requires a logical, verifiable answer. Saying " and then a miracle happened" is by definition NOT science, it's religion.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

We have always had free will, right from the first man and woman God created.

The entire purpose of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that God put in the Garden was so that Adam and Eve would have the free will and the choice to obey Him or disobey Him. And Adam and Eve were made to take tragic responsibility for their unwise use of their free will.

And we have free will today. Like, for instance, the free will to believe that God created this world, and all worlds, or to believe that earth was an accident, the sun was an accident, the cosmos was an accident, and we are accidents.

Free will, and free choice. And man will be held accountable to God for how he exercises his free will and the choices that he makes.

[ovrtaxt]

Have you read up on the theory of ‘open theism’? It attempts to bridge the gap between the Calvinism/Arminian camps. Personally, I find it to be consistent with scripture, and it makes sense to me.