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"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken u
by porjo 8y ago
"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." - Genesis 7:11
- wavefunction 8y agoA scientific dead-end, then...
- nimchimpsky 8y agoMy favourite bits are the talking snake, and getting one of each animal on board.
- jdavis703 8y agoThere's some true and even good information in the bible (e.g. turn the other cheek when assaulted, treat foreigners as citizens, help the poor), but just because there are scientific facts contained in portions does not make the entire text correct (e.g. slaves obey your masters).
- saagarjha 8y agoI doubt the Bible had a team of geologists run seismic studies to find subterranean water reserves. It's just a coincidence.
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoClearly not, but potentially not just coincidental either. There have been many theories suggesting that flood myths in cultures all over the world were inspired by actual floods[1], which actual geologists are working to uncover evidence of. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth#Claims_of_historicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth#Claims_of_historici...
- atlantic 8y agoInteresting. I always had the impression that in the various flood myths, the waters always came from the heavens. Very perceptive of you to notice that they are also said to have come from the deep. Is this corroborated in other myths? Gilgamesh, for instance?