The Flood

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The Flood
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If the flood was local

• Noah could have walked to the other side of the
  mountain range
• Why would Noah have brought birds on board?
• Why would Noah have saved the animals in his
  region?
• How could water rise 15 cubits above the
  mountains without spilling over?

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If the Flood was local

• The people that survived would have escaped Gods
  judgment, thus defeating the point of the flood.
• God would have broken his promise many times to
  never send such a disaster again.

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Common Skepticism

• Arks Size
• Room for animals
• Food for animals
• Technological Advancement
• Building Time of the Ark
• Salt Water/Fresh Water Fish
• Repopulation
• Survival of Plants
• Source of Water

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Room for the Animals

• Large Animals
• Babies, anyone?
• Many Animals
• Many kinds of Animals
• Gathering of the animals
• Ge 19 Let the waters under the heavens be
  gathered together into one place, and let the dry
  land appear

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Food for the Animals

• Genesis 1 29-30
• 29. And God said, Behold, I have given you every
  herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all
  the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit
  of a tree yielding seed to you it shall be for
  food
• 30. And to every beast of the earth, and to every
  bird of the heavens, and to everything that
  creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I
  have given every green herb for food and it was
  so.

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Food for the Animals

• Genesis 9 2-3
• Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for
  you As the green herb have I given you all.
• Granaries easy to store

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Technological Advancement
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Building Time of the Ark

• The Bible says that the Ark took over 100 years
  to build
• Wood rots
• Rotten boats sink
• Ge 614 Make thee an ark of gopher wood rooms
  shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it
  within and without with pitch.

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Saltwater and Freshwater

• Saltwater fish die in freshwater, and so it is
  the other way around
• The Bible tells us that only land-dwelling,
  air-breathing animals and birds were on the Ark
• Unsalted water pre-flood
• Specialization

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Specialization of Fish

• Atlantic Sturgeon migrates between freshwater
  and saltwater
• Siberian Sturgeon Freshwater
• Many fish species today have the capacity to
  adapt to both fresh and salt water within their
  own lifetimes.

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Survival of Plants

• Saltwater inhibits germination of most seeds
  (Creation Research Quarterly)
• Ge 811 The dove came back to him at evening,
  and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf
  plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were
  abated from off the earth.
• Seeds carried on Ark

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Source of Water

• Genesis 7 11
• In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the
  second month, in the seventeenth day of the
  month, in this day all the fountains of the great
  deep were broken up, and the windows of the
  heavens were opened up.

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Windows of Heaven

• Genesis 16-8
• God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst
  of the waters, and let it divide the waters from
  the waters.
• God made the expanse, and divided the waters
  which were under the expanse from the waters
  which were above the expanse, and it was so.
• God called the expanse sky.

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Windows of Heaven

• Water Vapor Theory
• Greenhouse Effect
• Coal in Antarctica
• Ice Ring Theory
• Magnetic Field Suspension
• Problems
• Intense Heat
• Dislodging system

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Fountains of the Deep

• Ps 1366 To him who spread out the earth above
  the waters
• Wells, Thousands of Aquifers, Fault Lines
• Ps 1048 The mountains rose, The valleys sank down

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Fountains of the Deep

• Major source of water not 40 days of rain
• Heating of oceanic plates would cause heating and
  eventually spillover
• 70 of volcanic eruptions are steam

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Ice Age?
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Ice Age?
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Repopulation

• Ge 1025 And unto Eber were born two sons the
  name of one was Peleg for in his days was the
  earth divided
• Krakatoa incident
• Land Bridges
• Kangaroos and Marsupials

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