Localised floods still happen, and still kill people, invalidating his promise, unless his promise referred instead (more obviously) to a global flood.God admitted he destroyed everyВ living thing.There are two reasons that this invalidates a localised flood. 19В Every animal, every crawling thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the arkвЂ¦.ДЎ5В and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. 17В Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, andВ be fruitful and multiply on the earth.вЂќ 18В So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife, and his sonsвЂ™ wives with him. LetвЂ™s just excerpt a little Genesis 8 & 9 for you all:ДЎ6В вЂњGo out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sonsвЂ™ wives with you. Some apologists, who donвЂ™t fancy doing much thinking, but do fancy explaining things away with the wave of the hand, claim that, to get round the mountains of evidence and arguments against a global flood, there was a localised flood instead. But the local flood theory is just as problematic, as I previously detailed and will expand upon. The classic get-out-of-jail card that supposedly answers some of these questions Is the local flood claim, as detailed in the link at the beginning. Liquids find their own level, and so a local flood of that magnitude and description is physically impossible. Explaining it away as a local flood is contradictory to Genesis, and would also not have killed all the humans who were so evil.There are many plants that reproduce in many ways other than seeds. All plants that do not rely on the seeds of Noah to survive would die.All sea fish would have died from the influx of fresh water.There no trace of this through DNA analysis (i.e., we know we came from Africa, etc.). The DNA pool finds no evidence of this.How were all the animals fed, including the carnivores? There would have had to have been untold extra animals further down the food chains to sustain the predators and then the apex predators. Ventilation, food, faeces and many other terminal problems would have existed on the ark.Asexual animals and hermaphrodites appear to not be accounted for.How did Noah actually get all the animals on the ark without them trying to eat each other or his family?.mean that the flood clearly never happened. Lots more evidence of fossil, radiometrics and isotopes etc.These would have been crushed and destroyed. There are reefs that have been undisturbed in the world for 100,000 years.There is no geological evidence for any of this.The weight of the water would have disastrous consequences on the EarthвЂ™s crust, emitting noxious gases and eruptions, leading to, potentially, a boiling sea! In all probability, it would have imploded in some way.A category 5 hurricane gives six inches per hour which is impossible to sustain over 40 days. Rainfall would have to have been six inches per minute.Population of eight could not rebound in the timespan claimed.The arkвЂ™s reported dimensions would have to be considerably larger to fit all of the actual animals of the world.Clearly the gathering of all the animals is impossible: micro-organisms, polar bears, penguins, condors, glow-worms, koalas, snails, and so on.The ark is physically bigger than a wooden vessel can be made, apparently by 50%.Noah lived 350 years beyond the end of the flood, dying at 950.Eight people looking after the worldвЂ™s biggest zoo is ridiculous.There is internal contradiction from the spliced accounts from the Bible вЂ“ for example, were there two of each animal or seven?.If the deluge destroyed all, why do we have the writings and journals of people before, during and after the deluge?.We very much advise the reader surveys Tablet XI of the Epic and compares it to the Noah story. We have parts of the epic dating to 2100 BCE, some 1500 years, arguably, before the Torah was completed, whilst in exile, surrounded by the culture in which the Epic of Gilgamesh was embedded. It details the building of the ark, the floods coming, the release of a raven and a dove through the window and more. The account is a reworking of Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest written story in the world.This would have killed untold numbers of children, including foetuses in utero.OmniGod (an all-powerful, all-knowing and all-loving god) did it because we were a sinful world.The contradictions and problems in the Genesis account are all best explained by a multiple source theory, as detailed in the links above, rather than ad hoc rationalising each individual problem.

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