Is there any evidence on the great flood happening?
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They have not only found evidence, but dated it.  The Great Flood began when the land bridge holding back the Bosporus gave way in 5100 B.C.E.  At that time, there was no Mediterranean Ocean, but rather an enormous shallow basin with a very large fresh water lake at the center of the basin.  When the Bosporus began to pour through, it began to fill the Mediterranean basin.  To than end, brackish and salt water from the Bosporus ran towards the center of the basin, thereby fouling the fresh water of the lake.\n\nTo inhabitants along the shores of the fresh water lake, the changes would have been gradual, but noticeable.  First, the water would turn brackish, then into salt water.  Then, the water level began to rise ... but not fast enough to cause widespread panic ... just a few inches per day.  Thing is, those few inches per day multiplied by a great many days left the cultures existing along the fresh water lake shore the ability to evacuate, but not the ability to take their entire civilization - just what they could carry off before their property became inundated.  Archaeologists are now beginning to look at underwater archeology with new respect, and the Mediterranean will be providing us with stunning surprises from ancient civilizations for many centuries to come.
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no because 'god' doesnt exist\n\nscience exists.\n\nthese disasters are only occurring because of global warming (will get worse)
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If you mean the Noah flood, there is some evidence for a great flood of water empting into the Mediteranian and close enough for it to be historical to the people writing the Bible. The outlet from the Black Sea(?) was blocked and suddenly opened flooding the town below.\nthere is a great flood plain where water froze formed a lake for many years and then broke loose spilling into Western Idaho and Eastern Washington St. Oregon. It looks like a barren lake bed today. The deposits indicate this happened many many times.
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Great info! I would like to add that the bible speaks of wars and rumors of wars(Iraq and other places),floods (Hurricanes,etc...),plagues(bird flu,AIDS,etc...)Also people will become waxed cold turn against others(religions,cults,families and even those who are God's elect). It's happening now.
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LOL...Good point! Give em something to think about!\n\n********\n\nNoah and his ark was actually a true story.....notice, I said STORY....not EVENT.\n\nThe Fertile Crescent had spring floods every year, due to the snows melting from the Ural mountains to the north. The story was a tale told at the time to get locals to prepare for the spring floods by moving to higher grounds or to build barges/floats, to keep above the flood waters.\n\nThe "story" says it was the "whole world" that flooded.....actually it was THEIR whole world.....people didn't use to travel a lot, ya know. the whole bible is a compiled group of stories just like this one.
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I cannot make sense out of your question, but if you are asking if these natural disasters were "acts of God," the answer is emphatically - NO!  He does not ever wish such things on people, nor would he do anything like these without prior warnings.  \n\nA good example to study is that of Noah.  Yes, that was a major "natural disaster," but the people had been warned again and again, and chose not to listen.  Read Chapters 6-9 of Genesis.  Also note what Jesus said at Matthew 24:37-39 - "Just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be.  For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away"
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Yes. Read the story of Noah and the great flood. There are far too many disprepenceis to list here, but I assure you that it can be proven to be untrue.
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Logically and scientifically speaking, this occurance is natural.  Every few thousand years, the earth goes through a climate shift.  That's what's happening now.  It's normal for the polar ice caps to melt and then form again.  This process takes thousands of years.  At worst, humans are slightly speeding up the process, but not by much.  Most of the gases from our cars and factories don't even reach the ozone layer.\n\nAs for what the Bible says about floods and the seas evaporating, etc, one must understand that the Bible was written in a time when man had no understanding of the world around him.  It was very scary to see natural occurances (fires, floods, comets, meteor showers, eclipses, thunder, lightning) and not understand why they were happening.  With no resources to figure out what was really going on, they decided these things must be a result of God's moods and they wrote about it from their own perspective.  In the current day, we understand why these things happen.\n\nThe Bible is a good book for looking back on a culture that shaped a major world religion.  It should be taken as a book to inspire faith (if you're inclined towards that faith) and to view the ancient Hebrews through their own eyes.  To put it in a scientific context is inviting trouble, though, because it was not meant to be a science book and even if it was at the time, it is vastly obsolete now.
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Until the Great Flood, there were no seasons; the weather was always temperate. After the Flood, G-d tells Noah that there will be constant seasonal changes (Genesis 8:22). \n\nRabbi Meir Leibush (Malbim) explains this as follows: Until the Flood, the earth's axis had no tilt relative to the sun. As a result of the flood, the earth's axis tilted in relation to the sun. Thus, the earth's climate changed drastically, resulting in a weakening of the human constitution and ability to withstand these constant changes in weather. \n\nThus, as a prelude to the Flood, G-d says "I won't constantly contend concerning Man … his life-span shall be 120 years (Genesis 6:3). The Ibn Ezra explain this to mean that lifetimes would gradually decrease, until the maximum will be around 120. \n\nI hope that answers your question about why people don't live as long today as they once did. \n\nAs for technology's inability to slow the aging process, that's more a problem with technology than with the Bible. "The scientific study of aging is a young discipline" (National Geographic Nov. '97). Compared to many areas of science, relatively little is known about aging. Richard A. Knox refers to the "black box of aging," and calls it a "mystery" (The Boston Globe 1997). \n\nBy way of example, take the case of Jeanne Calment who died in France last year at the age of 122. Why did she live so long? No one knows. Why did she stop living? "Officials gave no specific cause of death" (Houston Chronicle News Services 8/5/97). If she had lived another ten - or 100 - years, it wouldn't have contradicted any law of science.
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It happened. Could happen again if that's what God decided, but he made a promise to us that it wouldn't (thus the rainbow)\nBut yes, it could happen. Whether there's enough water or not, let's not forget the ice, and if some earth needed to be dropped a little so the water could cover it, guess what God would send? an Earthquake! So that's what I think. It happened. Kind of amazing but that's what he is!
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Never heard of it, but I live in Portugal (20 Km away from Lisbon) and I know they had an heartquake on the 18th century. Therefore, such prophecy is probably fake.
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Yes. My neighbor has collected weather data for the last 15 years.  It's mostly temperature, rain amount, and a general description of the weather.  I did a statistical analysis of the temperature data and discovered that the trend indicated an increasing temperature.  I used a least squares analysis and plotted the graph.  I did this for a monthly average, and a yearly average.  The trend is upward for both, and some record highs were recorded in several months. I don't want to get into the details for anyone who is a statistical genius at this point.  The outcome seems to depend on which political party you belong to in the US. \nThere are also some wild fluctuations in temperature, and wind events.  We have had some severe storms that have damaged large areas of pristine forests, and we have had some major flooding. I live in Pennsylvania and, yes, I would say the temperature is changing somewhat by inching upwards, based on temperature data.  The voracity of some storm events are very damaging, as viewed over my lifetime in this geographic area.  Friend to friend, I would think about moving to Europe if I was you.  You are going to experience a cataclysmic event in the near future that will have devastating effects on the UK.  At least that's what my research shows.  But, it's just the rantings of a conspiracy nut, that's what my friends say.
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I think that the events happening today are a result of the BELIEF in prophecy.  \nExample:  Self fulfilling prophecy can and does regularly happen from any religion.
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in the FLOOD mentioned in Genesis...
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No, there has been an tremendous amount of effort to provide natural explanations to the supernatural events described in the scripture. It doesn't matter how far-fetched the alternate explanations are. As long as they make no mention of the supernatural, they make national news. Read the article. Here are some choice quotes - \n\n"But they say geological core samples suggest that average temperatures were lower in Jesus' day, and that at least two protracted cold spells occurred in the region 1,500 to 2,500 years ago."\n\nWOW! What a revelation! The samples SUGGEST that in a period of one thousand years, the temperatures may have dropped to freezing temps TWO TIMES! \n\nThere's more! "In addition to chilly weather, their explanation depends on a rare physical property of the Sea of Galilee ... It is fed by salty springs along its western shore that produce plumes of dense water, thermally isolating areas that could freeze even if the entire lake did not, they assert." \n\nWell, in addition to the chilly weather that occurred twice in a thousand years, more conditions apply. If thermal isolation was ocurring, some of the areas COULD freeze. \n\nLet's recap. We're scientists and we don't believe the Biblical story is true. But, we'll pretend it is and come up with a far-fetched explanation that makes national news and makes the Bible's story sound like bunk. \n\nSo, here's the story: Twice in a one-thousand year period, the temperatures may have gotten really cold. We don't know how cold, but we'll assume that the tropical&#92;subtropical climate of the middle east possibly even got down to freezing temps. Because we know that there is no way it could get cold enough to freeze a large body of water like the Sea of Galilee, we'll mention that there is some thermal isolation in the sea. These isolated regions may have got cold enough to freeze completely solid. These regions may even have become solid enough to support the weight of an adult male. \n\nWhat about the other details of the Biblical account? Why didn't the heavy winds that night help mix the water and dissolve these thermally isolated regions? How did these ice sheets stretch out three and a half miles and provide a perfect walkway right up to the side of a moving boat? What about Peter? He walked on the water for a little while, as well. Did he just happen to step out onto a floating piece of ice? \n\nThe solution offered by the researchers, speculative and far-fetched at best, still fails to handle the Biblical account accurately. They have taken the parts of the Biblical account that were convenient to try to discredit, but ignored the speciic details of the Biblical account. For the uninformed reader, especially those who are looking to discredit the Bible, this article is music to their ears.
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Mayan and Egyptian prophecies, which have been pretty accurate so far, state that in 2012 there will be a huge devastation, one in which the earth has encountered many times before.  There is suppose to be a polar shift followed by a comet. It is suppose to devestate the human race and leave very few to pick up the peices.  Not necessarily something you could prepare for, but at least if it started up you could be mentally prepared.  But who knows, there are many prophecies about worldly devastations.
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Some flash floods possible for California right now.  Definitely expect some flooding this year in other places, coinciding with snow melt, possibly aggravated by rain.\n\nNova Scotia and other typical places along the USA-Canada border need to remain watchful.\n\nSome torrential rains expected this year in the USA.  Will be easier to predict where as the conditions develop.\n\nRivers over embankments, yes.\n\nPossible extreme heat conditons during the summer.  This also increases the likelihood of brown outs and power failures.\n\nI am expecting more trouble in the West than in the East this time around, but this is only a general feeling I have about the climatic conditions.\n\nThe only other remarkable expectation is for a very strong tornado season.  And these HAVE been occuring more easterly in recent years.\n\nI would not be surprised to see New York tornadoes.\n\nThere are suggestions for better housing at:\n\nhttp://360.yeahoo.com/ki_te_moana\n\nIf you are from California, how is the Russian River doing about now?