"funny how if anyone tries to explain where the stories of the bible come from, blind faith followers jump up and say "god did it". if this is true, why is there no evidence of this supernatural old man."

Rob from Bristol, UK must know all of evidences and knows everything. He seems to make an illogical conclusion that there is "no evidence of this supernatural old man"....really ? "No evidence"? So you've lokoed at ALL the evidence Rob?

Jon, Melbourne, VICTORIA

funny how if anyone tries to explain where the stories of the bible come from, blind faith followers jump up and say "god did it". if this is true, why is there no evidence of this supernatural old man.

Rob, Bristol, UK

Regardless of where Noah's flood came from. Think about the level of pollution caused by those prehistoric cars. No MOT, no emmissions test. The horribly polluting united states churning out tons of CO2 from their gas guzzling cars.
It's a good thing there was a flood. I wouldn't want to live in the after effects of their pollution!

Alan, London, UK

It is absolutely surreal that we still live in a world where people want to believe in the ancient myth of a global flood, just because one version of this myth happens to appear in the Torah.

Robert Maynard, Sydney, Australia

There are catastrophic flood stories in many cultures around the world. The bible is just one of them. To me this suggests that the story may be somewhat true and had global impact.

King Tubby, Mechanicsville,

El Gato, get an education. The bible is not a history book. It's like saying the Koran or even Superman comics are historical. Historically, it is only useful to the extent that it tells us about the myths of a small (insignificant at the time) community. Most of these biblical myths are already shown to be borrowed from other civilisations. Why on earth would you take the myths of a primitive tribe as historical? Rationally you wouldn't accept any elements of the myths as fact unless it was backed up by compelling evidence. If anything in the Bible stood up to scientific/historical scrutiny it would be taught in every school and University. It is up to biblical scholars to prove the claims of the bible. Until then there is nothing for Archeology to disprove.

Dominic, Brisbane, Australia

So? All this indicates that even PRIOR to the "industrial age" and carbon emitting fossil fuels, the ICE sheets melted. In fact there is evidence to suggest that at one time the artic and antartic were almost devoid of ice...again prior to the horror of fossil fuels. The argument against global warming has never beent that it isn't happening. It is and has been against the bogus claim that CO2 released into the atomosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is the CULPRIT.....especially when there have been numerous PROVEN examples of ancient history where ice caps melt and then freeze over again and that climate shifts not unlike the change of tides only over much greater periods of time. The dead give away about the climate change crowd (they got caught in their lie about warming so changed the language to evade detection) is that their solution is ALWAYs SOCIALIST IN nature and that those who signed up stand to receive the taxes taken from certain countries under their fix.

James Davis, Ocala, Florida

Another made up story to try to avoid accepting the truth of the Bible! Archeology has not proven ONE instance of the Bible being incorrect, while it has in very MANY instances been shown to be correct. God caused the flood and if He hadn't promised to do it again, we'd be sweating it out because we deserve it just as much now as people did then. They also wouldn't believe Noah just as they refuse to believe now. Doesn't matter to God...He will do what He has promised and that's all there is to it. The lake of fire will be populated with all of the "know-it-all" unbelievers.

El Gato, Brookfield, WI, USA

The "Global Warming" fiasco has gone far enough! This is not man-made; it is cyclical and we should not buy into the Al Gore and so called enlightened scientists theory. There are many other scientists and climatologists who disagree with man-made global warming. Please get on with your lives by doing what you can to be good stewards of the earth. Don't buy into everything you hear and read. Do your own research. In the early 70's Newsweek was trying to get us upset about the upcoming "Ice Age". There are many other things to be concerned about than flooding coast lines. Please get a grip and try very hard to enjoy your life. We have a beautiful planet and many things to be thank-ful for. Joy to all!

Donna, Delmar, USA/MD

Human beings reproduce too fast to have been around 8000 years ago as implied by this story. Before the conquest of childhood diseases, it took us 150 to 165 years to double in numbers. There were around 1.1 billion people on the Earth in 1825. Every time you go back in time 150 to 165 years, that number is divided in half.

By the time you get down to 8 people (the number of people on the Ark of Noah according to the Bible) you have divided the population by two 27 times from our numbers in 1825. Guess what? This places us between 2225 to 2630 BC, about the time most Biblical scholars say the flood of Noah took place.

If we had been around 8000 years as this story implies, even with a massive near extinction that the flood of Noah produced, our numbers would exceeded the Earth's capacity to sustain us thousands of years ago. That is, unless one can believe the fable that it would take 300+ years to double in numbers each time. Given how much we enjoy sex, this theory is hogwash.

Larry Pierson, Dallas, Texas

So did the cars cause warming 8,000 years ago also?

Derek, Fulton, NY, USA

I wonder, would the governments of the day tried to fool the public into raising tax as a "solution"?

James, Ewell, Surrey

We find petrified coral reefs in the mountains of the desert in West Texas. Virtually EVERY mountain range on the planet contains multitudes of fossilized sea creatures (BTW, marine life makes up ~95% of the known fossil record), EVERY continent contains 1 to 1.5 miles of sedimentary layers which could only be deposited by a worldwide cataclysmic event. Yeah, this was a localized event... NOT!!!

Knowing the truth of Biblical, historical accounts, I'm more inclined to trust God at His Word not to destroy the earth by flood again than I am to put any faith in the tainted psuedo-science of those seeking to suck more tax dollars out of the peoples of the world.

Paul, USA, America

Why is this artice under the heading "faith"? It looks to me to be about scientific research. What the biblical fundamentalists make of it is their own affair.

Tony Gilingham, Hereford,

i worked for a utility company as budget analysis in the late 60's and 70's. We would get reports back then for the government about the enviroment. How mankind was destroying the earth. God tells us He will hurt those the hurt the earth. Let us look at how to resolve the problem. We were and are to manage the earth and doing a poor job of it.
Thanks
Bill

Bill Hoard, Salem, USA/Oregon

Actually, what gave "rise" to the account of the flood during the time when Noah was living was when God told Moses about it and then that got recorded in the the book called Genesis. Other explanations may have been offered, but Moses' writing is what actually happened just as described.

Jim Flood, Brown Deer, WI USA

I am more inclined to believe the bibles story of the flood , since reading about Ron Wyatts discovery of Noha's Ark. The pictures are there for all to see. To me this is the biggest story that is overlooked.

Chris Morris, Windsor Locks, USA Connecticut

Hi

The problem I see is that the Noah's flood story comes from Bible, which was not penned in east of the Black Sea., but the Middle East. Also, why would they say the whole world flooded when they had just migrated onto dry ground?

Eloize, Taherehere, NZ

You better read your Bible, buster. The entire world was covered with water, not select countries, which you seem to claim. It was spoken and done. Your phoney science is a waster of time.

I Am Smarter, Concho, usa, az

Gentlemen, The deluge you describe as Noahs flood was a world wide flood, covering all mountains more than a fifteen foot minimum. The almighty maker of heaven and earth describes the catastrophe in the only book he ever wrote in the chapter of Genesis. He ought to know because he was present and he caused the flood. Only 8 people survived. And pairs of all the air breathing animals including dinosaurs, referred to in the Bible as leviathan and behemoth. If you would consult the owners manual for the earth you would save yourselves a whole lot of inaccurate speculation. It was a world wide catastrophe of massive proportions. It was designed by God to get us to look to him for all the answers and to understand that we have a self induced problem called sin, that we cant do anything about on our own. Thats why he sent the only person worthy to pay the price as our substitute for his penalty. Namely Death. Look around you his creation shouts his magnificence. Seek him today and Repent.

Gray, Fayetteville, USA North Carolina

What a lot of unmitigated rubbish.

Charles Gray, London, UK

This is just the tip of the ice burg, what happens when all the ice melts?

I have often worried about the effects of shipping large amounts of ore and produce from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere, could it change the earth's wobble?

Ias there any evidence that as the ice melted in the nothern hemisphere and the water accumalated in the southern hemisphere, the earth's wabble changed?

John O'Connor, Narrandera,

If this theory were correct, one could go out into the sea from once populated coast lines and find the stone blocks and structures of ancient cities and dwellings. These would be located only far enough to reach a depth of one to two meters. Where are they? The Noah's flood had to have been a sudden deluge. For example, the last ice age must have had a sudden melt off as literally thousands of cubic kilometers of ice melting almost instantly washed down through what is now the Grand Canyon and into the Gulf of Mexico. We know this because there is no delta from the Colorado River like there is in the mouth of the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico. It is believed that the ice in the northern third of what is now the US was over 100 ft high. The most probable theory was that of an astroid impact. Thus you have land masses being pushed up (ocean fossils on tops of mts) and the heat required for instant melt off. Bible account fits very well into this scenario.

M.L. Kuykendall, Dexter, NM