More Ark questions....
OK, here's a few other facts to fit into place for the literalists:
1) It rained, right? A LOT...40 days/40 nights. And then Noah sent out a dove to look for land, right? And after a couple weeks or so, the dove brought back an olive branch, right?
So, if the Ark is 12,000+ feet up on Ararat, where are the olive trees at that elevation?
2) If everything was flooded, wouldn't the salinity of the water have killed all the trees anyway? How long for an olive tree to grow and sprout leaves, assuming it can live in a salty marsh?
3) How the hell did Noah and the gang climb DOWN from Mt Ararat? That's a helluva trek, and you'd think they'd have written SOMETHING about it.
4) Why are there isolated freshwater lakes after only 6,000 years? Wouldn't they all be salt leftover from the flood?
5) I like the ice question-why didn't all the icecaps melt, float away?
6) Did Noah have an aquarium to protect all the freshwater fish and stuff in? They don't last long in saltwater.
7) Any comments on the scientific findings of the Black Sea and Dardanelles and how that body of water used to be freshwater (they've identified fossil remains of fish/mollusks etc that were know freshwater species dating to several thousand years ago, when they all just died out there and were replaced with saltwater species)? The scientific explanation of the observed facts is that the Dardanelles broke through when the Black Sea was a freshwater isolated lake, creating a huge unprecedented flood of the region; evidence of civilizations/cities swallowed up by the deluge has been found. This is consistent w/ the Biblical record of 'a great flood', which would have only been a regional event, but to people living in the area at the time, it sure as hell would have looked like a worldwide event. (This was before 1492, if you recall, when Columbus found out the Earth might be round, not flat). Personally, I think this scientific discovery is fascinating, and a substantiation of the Bible, although not in its literal interpretations. There most definitely WAS a flood, but not in the way it's interpreted by the Creationist lobby....
Maybe this'll rejuve the thread here til June....
Evidence of Noah's story?