Do you believe in the story of Noah and the ark (and if you do what do you believe about it)?

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LadyEmeraude

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It is a myth to many and true to others...

What don't you believe about it?
 

The Russell Crowe Noah movie was slightly entertaining but other than that it's just a story. Oh yeah, don't believe it either just because the logistics of it don't work out.
 

I'm not a biblical literalist, so no, but I do believe a lot of Old Testament stories have some factual basis. A lot of oral cultures have Great Flood stories and there are sea animal fossils found in sediment layers in areas many miles from where historical modeling shows an ocean ever was. One interesting theory is a that a ginormous comet struck the earth. The 1977 novel Lucifer's Hammer goes into great detail about how that would cause global flooding. If you like post-apocalyptic fiction, it's one of the best.

Agree with @RadishRose. There's likely been more than one global great flood and localized ones that inhabitants at the time believed impacted the whole world.
 
RadishRose said:
But there may have been a huge flood. Maybe more than one.
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There was a huge flood when a asteroid hit the earth some 65 million years ago. Not necessarily a flood but the tectonic plates were also underwater at one time. Where I live in AR this evident every where. But all this predates Homo Sapiens.
 
This is the present-day Noah’s ark. It is in preparation of a world catastrophe.

https://time.com/doomsday-vault/

I ask myself, with so much unrest in ancient times, why would it be impossible to think a man or men would want to preserve some evidence of life on earth? Consider this: not many people travelled far from home in those days, no newspapers or twitter to let them know what is going on. A man (or men) had a dream to do something about it. A visionary perhaps?

We’ll never know the absolute truth…and…some accounts may have been embellished. Nevertheless, I do believe (along with scientists) that a great flood occurred in the vicinity at that time and a vessel was built by a shipbuilder and his sons.

Do I believe? Yes…
 
I've past mentioned on this SF board, that I can readily re-interpret controversial sections of the Old Testament to actual reasonable possibilities, challenging anyone to try. And that includes the Flood Story. This person does not want to destroy long held beliefs of traditional Christians. Interpretation of OT scripture ought not bear on a person's journey to salvation.

The Noah's Ark and Flood stories as interpreted by Judeo Christian religions is utter impossible science nonsense. There is no way it can be argued from physical, geological, or biological species evidence that water covered the whole planet nor how two of all creatures of the planet somehow were brought into an ark. This is also some of the strongest evidence of why arguing for Old Testament inerrancy is utter nonsense and those writing such stories were while well meaning, ancient simple minded science ignorants with religious agendas. Despite that, fundamentalist religious denominations and their scholars have and will continue to defend the traditional interpretation with seething passion with the only flood being endless manipulative biased arguments with intention to so overwhelm searchable Internet or print media that those many unable to understand the science won't be easily be persuaded.

There has long been scholarly interpretations called the Documentary Hypothesis over the whole OT that has been well studied and analyzed. Although the extent of consensus among scholars on specifics varies, the general consensus remains. This following link divides the accounts into a combination of two sets of authors. The original author in the link (Other source), is hypothesized to have been much earlier, very likely involving Moses while the (Priestly source) were much later additions from the Babylonian Exile.

Significantly, if one separates Genesis 6-9 scripture between the two per the below link, the Moses version is quite believable as a large local Mesopotamian flood in which Noah and his family survived on a large boat aka ark, along with domesticated livestock and other human bred animals like dogs, while others in the flooded zone perished. The Priestly source uses a common strategy of religious manipulators with agendas. Thus greatly magnified the power of their god to miraculous levels with creative details since their audience was ancient primitive science ignorant common folk ruling classes held power over.

https://www.livius.org/articles/misc/great-flood/flood1-t-bible_2/
 
I believe the story of noah and ark. but he did not take 2 of each animal but only those clean and unclean animals and as best I can remember was less than 50 total. and the nile river floods often and covers a great deal of land,but then so does the mississippi, missouri and several other rivers each could have been the great flood. as to finding sea shells or other prehistoric animal skelatons,the great continental shift has happened at least 4 times in the past, what may have been then has long since been eradicated and new continents formed......
 
Absolutely not...science has debunked it time and time again. And what a horrific story of genocide. The "loving" God got pissed off at the "sinners" he made and drowned everyone...including innocent children...except for Noah and his family. And that's just the beginning of the fairy tale story. There is something seriously wrong with anyone who believes it.
 
I let people believe what they want. There's no reason to argue or fight about beliefs whether God, Jesus or the Holy spirit exists, or the flood happened or the birth of the Messiah.

It's not important to my belief in Jesus, God and the Holy spirit. If they want to discuss fine, if they want to scream that "It's a lie!" I just walk away. There's no profit in talking to a brick wall.
 
chic said:
No. While I do believe a catastrophic flood could have occurred in that area, I don't believe it destroyed the entire world and all its people and animals. How would Noah have found a kangaroo?
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Some believers say that the animals came to Noah, guided by god. So, presumably the two kangaroos hopped across Australia, swam across the ocean and arrived in the Middle East, unscathed. Quite the incredible journey! Penguins waddled their way there from the Antarctic. And who knows how long it took the two sloths to get there? LOL Oh, and I've always wondered how the animals decided amongst themselves which two would travel to the ark.
 
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