Noah's Flood Revealed

The following is a true story:

One day my husband was enjoying some quality time with his friend and his wife. These friends was a Christian Fundamentalists and my husband is a non-believer. This never hindered their friendship, as it should be, but they would sometimes find themselves in polite debate about religion. On this particular evening, over dinner, the discussion turned to religion and fossils to be exact.

My husband asked his friend "But what about dinosaur bones?".

His friend's answer was that "God put them there."

My husband then asked "So God buried the dinosaur bones for humans to later dig up?"

His friend simply stated "Yes".

Hubby then asked "But why would God do that? Dinosaur bones are nothing but a source of contention for your beliefs, the belief that you say God commands of you. Why would he put something on this earth that makes his believers question his existence? Or was it so we wouldn't get bored?"

His friend said "To test our faith."

Hubby "Why would God need to test our faith if he is real we would already know it and assume his existence is actual, why do we need to be tested. Sounds childish to me."

Anyway, the conversation fizzled out at that point as his friend decided he didn't want to answer any more questions about his belief. Fair enough, I guess...but this is a common sentiment of Christians when it comes to fossils that clearly date the earth older than 6,000 years old as it is according to the Book of Genesis. They also like to claim that the geologic column does not disprove God and prove evolution, but instead it PROVES God does in fact exist. It is complete lunacy, but here is their reasoning.

The Geologic Column

The geologic column is the layers of sediment that have continued to grow since the beginning of the Earth. Fossils are found in these layers and each layer represents a different time in the history of Earth. The lowest layer, therefore the oldest layer, shows single celled organisms and the highest most new layer shows fossils of Homo sapiens as we are the youngest up to this point of Earth's life forms. The geologic column is sorted by time and in each layer there are different life forms found, some continue on throughout the layers, evolving as time goes by and some are extinct, like the dinosaurs. For more information on dating of the earth and the geologic column, please visit the Geologic Time Scale.

Noah's Flood

Ok so now that is out of the way, let's discuss "The Great Flood". Supposedly God made it rain for forty days and forty nights, we all know the story right? Noah was commanded to build and ark and save animals. The only humans saved were his own family, how convenient. What he forgot was plant life and at the time of the writing of Noah's journey, people did not realized that plants were actually a form of life so it is understandable why they were left out of the equation. That plant life survived this "flood" must be a "miracle" right? Also, Noah's flood was stolen from the much older story of Gilgamesh, but the bible stealing stories and holidays is a whole other post for another time.

Here it is important to note that creationists believe that all life form was created at the same time and if this were the case then we should see all fossils in the same layer of the geologic column, but instead we see a "sorted" column. We should especially see a large quantity of fossils from the "Flood" as everything was wiped out during this 40 day period, expect for what Noah was able to save, right? Well this is not the case but the creationists have a couple ways to answer this, none of which make any common sense, but here they are.

The Answers

During the great deluge, the least sophisticated organisms sank to the bottom of first and the more sophisticated the organism, the longer it lasted during this flood. So all those single celled organisms that could not swim or run died first. Fish drown before reptiles and reptiles before mammals because mammals could run faster up a mountain than a reptile. Humans were the last to die because they were smart enough to climb to the top of the mountains and wait. Ummm, OK. I especially love how fish drown before anything else more sophisticated, even though they are designed to live in water. See in the geologic column, fish come before reptiles as reptiles are created after many many years of evolution from fish.

Since this explanation is quickly discarded as pure nonsense, even by many Christians, they came up with another explanation that seemed much more "plausible". They then claimed that each organism and those closely related float, yes float, at different rates. So those who did not float as well died first and so on and so forth.

Do they even say these things out loud to hear how ridiculous it all sounds? You know the saying "the simplest answer is the correct one", well this actually stemmed from a Occum's razor which states “Of several acceptable explanations for a phenomenon, the simplest is preferable.”

Open minds lead to peace...let's all give it a try shall we?