Then, following the tenth month and its first day, a period of 40 days occurs, as well as two periods of 7 days each, or a total of 54 days. In this account the second, seventh, and tenth months of the year of the Flood are directly mentioned. At Genesis 7:11, 24 and 8:3-5 the “log” that Noah kept shows 150 days to be equal to five months. He evidently divided the year into 12 months of 30 days each. In Noah’s time we have the first record of the ancient reckoning of the length of the year. Modern Christians like to overlook God being 'above' or 'in the sky' but in a very real sense, the worst 'acts of God' do come from the sky. It might simply reflect human fears of what would happen if torrential rain went on too long, washing away their land and even drowning them. Or the Biblical timeline is hugely compressed (names left out of the geneology for instance) in which case it doesn't matter which asteroid, or indeed if there was one, underpinning the story. Or just a big tsunami (funnelling up the gulf of Aden I guess).Įither the Biblical timeline is roughly correct, in which case there's a major conflict with geological time. And when you give the story that much leeway it could have been any asteroid anywhere. Then bear in mind that Biblical time compresses 66 million years (Chicxulub crater, extinction of the dinosaurs) into a few generations of long lived people. There was an asteroid around then, but it wasn't big enough to impact the Middle East. I like the overall gist of this, but I get skeptical when you mention a comet hitting the South Indian Ocean about 2807 BC. And 'about' will do when we're talking about such absurd quantities of water, or such extreme behavior by the water before and after existing on Earth.ĭoesn't it bother you that the 'dinosaur zone' in the video doesn't match up much at all with the Rocky Mountains? Or the pat explanation that coal beds exceed the amount of life possible at one time, with 'well it was super lush then'? Don't be misled by the outpouring of largely irrelevant information: this video is not science. Don't even get started on the cubits! 3 kilometers is about 2 miles. Measures using anything but 10s as a multiplier are just dumb. Pardon me for using kilometers, but I'm with the US military and US scientists on that. Which is also 3 kilometers higher than Ararat.

that's a 3 kilometre high surge when tsunamis usually come inland at one hundredth of that height, it would need to be sustained long enough to cover the Tibetan Plateau and inundate K2. Supposing that somehow a surge from the Indian Ocean up the Bay of Bengal did breach the line of the Himalayas. The sea-wash they hypothesise corralled the dinosaurs into the US inland, wouldn't have touched Tibet. Half of Tibet is higher than Mt Ararat, including Everest and K2 which are about 3 kilometers higher. In Biblical times the existence of the US (and South America, and Australia) was unknown, and nor is America the most challenging environment to test (validate or invalidate) the Flood story. I found it hard to take them seriously when they used maps of the US.

Another eden tower of time 8f