The "Great Flood".
 

Yeah, I know they're expecting severe flooding from all the snow this winter, but that's not what I'm talking about. Remember the thread I started some time ago about believing in the Bible?

http://www.classadrivers.com/forum/s...ighlight=bible

Well, I was watching TV (one of the few times I have done so), and they were talking about a comet hitting the earth. The actual jist of the story was a comet hitting the earth near San Francisco, CA at some point in our future. But, during the program, they stated that the earth has already been hit by one some 4,800 years ago.

WOW!!!

I do the math... Geologists say that the clay deposits on and near the mountain tops from the great flood was about 2845 BC. Now, add 2000 years AD...

The impact of the comet was some distance east of Madagascar. And, the comet would have been several miles wide. It would have sent up a "MEGA-TSUNAMI". Right on time to have caused the flood of Noah.

Now, all we need is a computer simulation for the water currents that would have resulted from that tsunami, and we can come closer than ever to the "Garden of Eden".

That would have been the cause of the "Flood", and they also talked about the amount of rain it would have caused. Remarkable coincidence?

I saw something about that on A&E or one of the other cable networks. It is an interesting theory. We know that there was a flood. We have a lot of evidence to support that fact. I think where some differ is in how the flood came to pass. I remember my Bible teacher in grammar school (elementary school) who used to say that the more people try to disprove the Bible the more they prove it to be factual. If you saw the same program as I did they said the tsunami was several hundred feet high, if I remember correctly. :eek1:

Scientists are always coming up of ways to defy the events of history, mainly in the Bible. I believe that God created a great flood that flooded the earth. I also believe that God created the rainbow, to signify his promise, never to flood the earth again. Water in sunlight also causes a rainbow. They say, if it's raining and the rays of the sun hit the rain, it causes a rainbow. That is right. You can do the same thing with a water sprinkler, but that's not the reason why we have the rainbow.
My grand dad served this country during World War II. We used to watch the History channel together, and he told me stories about the war. (wonderful memories. I can still see him sitting in his chair, talking about it) They do have some interesting things on the History channel.

It all comes down to how much one's willing to believe or let their mind go. I believe the story Wind after seeing some of the evidence myself. Working on a job here that is something like 6-7 miles from the nearest river but we broke ground and found the evidence that water was up to there at some point and for a while. River rock, clams, sea shells, sand and it had been there a long time as it appeared to have some type of presevation to it from being in the ground for so long.

The thing about the program was that they never once mentioned the Bible. But, the evidence of the Flood of Noah dates back to 2845 BC. And on the program, they said the evidence that the comet hit the earth dates back to 4800 years ago. I had stated that about the only way that the water could rise up that high would be for something to splash down into the ocean. Also, rain coming down on the surface of a lake does not pick up any of the sediment from the bottom. It takes a current to pick up the clay that was deposited on the mountains. That "Mega-Tsunami" would be enough to do it.

They also said the earth would experience a great deal of rain, the world over. And, for quite an extended period. They also theorize that the tsunami alone would terminate about half the earth's population.

On the program, they used an impact point about 100 miles west of San Francisco. A 3 mile wide comet, would put up a wave that would swamp the Rockies and flood the Great Plains. But, by the time it got to the Atlantic, it would have been about petered out. That would also explain a colony of Cro-Magnon surviving on the Canary Islands till the 15th century AD.

But, there's more. A wave like that, coming up from the south, would have moved the arc a bit farther than from Iraq to Mount Ararat over a period of 40 days and nights. Somalia or Ethiopia would be more likely. The initial currents would have moved it north, and as the water would have drained, it would have begun to move south again, but with the water draining off into the Med, it would not have made as much distance south. So, the landmarks the folks are looking at to find the Garden of Eden may be all wrong. Someone needs to look at a computer model of a wave of that amplitude coming from that area of the ocean, and see just what he currents would do, then account for westerly winds. A starting point somewhere in central Africa is a possibility.

I'm not trying to prove the Bible wrong. My whole point is that in the end, Evolution and Creation are going to have to coincide.

There are some Bible scholars who believe that the earth is only about 6,000 years old. The lack of accurate record keeping during the time of Noah and the obvious mass destruction at that time makes it next to impossible to accurately measure the time of the flood. You can see evidence in many parts of the world. If you run through certain parts of Nevada and other areas of the west you can see evidence of a flood. There is evidence of a number of events recorded in Bible history of being true. Noah is one of the main ones where there is evidence of a worldwide flood, even though we still have not found the actual ark.