(1) The story of modern Noah’s Ark On the evening of February 17, 2000, Luo Yamin was playing the computer game "Feng Shen Bang" in his study. Suddenly, Nezha jumped out of the screen and turned into a shining angel standing on his desk. Luo Yamin was so frightened that he lay on the ground and did not dare to move. Then I heard the angel say: "Righteous Luo Yamin, don't be afraid. I am sent by God. God has an important will to convey to you." Luo Yamin nodded hurriedly. The angel went on to say: "Humanity is morally corrupt and materialistic. God is determined to abandon these hopeless scum on the earth. God sees you as a righteous person, so you have been forgiven. From now on, you must prepare to create a good On this day in 2077, take your whole family, 700 boys and girls, 7 pairs of animals of various types, and seeds of various plants, and prepare 7 spaceships carrying all human knowledge. Bring the supercomputer into the spacecraft together. At that time, God will destroy all life on earth in the flames of nuclear war. You will lead the spacecraft to land on Mars' "New Home Mountain" and restart a new era of mankind there. Live there, it's very, very close to heaven." After saying this, the angel suddenly returned to the computer and restored himself to Nezha. After a long time, Luo Yamin came back to his senses, as if he had had a dream, but he swore that it was not an illusion.
Generally speaking, people will not believe the stories Luo Yamin tells just because he swears by them. First of all, since human beings were enlightened, no one has ever proven to have seen an angel. Secondly, at present, even many developed countries do not have the strength to send people into space. How can it be possible with Luo Yamin’s personal strength? Let alone building a 10,000-ton spaceship! In the end, most people will not believe that God wants to Use nuclear weapons to wipe out humanity and all life on earth. However, incredible things like these exist in the Old Testament Creation Flood story.
(2) How Noah and his family were able to build and control a 10,000-ton ark. The largest wooden ship recognized in human history is the Zheng He treasure ship of the Ming Dynasty in China, which is also the part of the famous Zheng He's huge fleet on the Western Ocean. Flagship ship. Bao is about 125 meters long and 50 meters wide (44 feet long, 18 feet wide, height unknown). It adopts comprehensive mortise and tenon technology including spade nails, iron shovel nails, shovel nails, and leech nails. At that time, China's shipbuilding level was far higher than that of the West. Eighty-seven years after Zheng He's voyages to the West, the ships used by Columbus to discover the New World in America were compared to Zheng He's treasure ships, just like the ratio of a newly hatched chick to a big hen. Noah's Ark recorded in the Bible was about 150 meters long, 25 meters wide, and 15 meters high. Its plane size was as much as 60% of the size of Zheng He's treasure ship. Building such a large ship more than 4,000 years ago was hundreds of times more difficult than building a modern man-made aircraft carrier. How could it be accomplished with the strength of Noah and his family alone?
Even if Noah built the ark, his family would not be able to build it. Can eight people drive it? According to "Marco Polo's Travels", it took two to three hundred sailors to sail a large ship in the Yuan Dynasty, and only three sailors were needed to row a ten-meter-long oar. It can be seen from this that it is impossible for Noah and his family to push and control a large ship filled with animals and with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons.
According to the Bible, after they entered the ark, no one was responsible for steering or rowing the ark, and they completely allowed the ark to drift in the flood for 150 days before finally docking at Ararat. Mountain (Genesis 8:3-4). The Ark wandered blindly in the huge flood for nearly half a year, but it still stayed near its original starting point, that is, the Middle East.
(3) How could Noah and his family house countless animals? According to David M. Raup, an academician of the American Academy of Sciences and a famous paleontologist, in "Species Extinction-Bad Genes or Bad Luck" "Introduced in the book: There used to be 50-50 billion species on the earth, but currently there are only about 40 million species left on the earth. That is to say, only about one thousandth of the species are still lucky to survive.
According to entomologist David Grimaldi, director of the American Museum of Natural History, and Dr. Michael S. Engel, a paleontologist and entomologist, in the book "The Evolution of Insects" According to the introduction, there are currently at least 5 million species of insects on the earth. Based on these data, we conservatively estimate that there were once at least 1 billion species of animals on the earth. It took biologists around the world several centuries to name about 1.5 million species of animals. So how could Noah know all the species of animals in the world more than 4,000 years ago? However, from the book of Genesis, God commanded Judging from the record that Noah selected a male and a female of various animals to board the ship, the ancient Jews did not even have knowledge of asexual animals and social animals. Besides, how could Noah and the others collect and transport all kinds of animals from all over the world to the Middle East in a short period of time? According to the record in Genesis, they loaded all the animals on the ship on the day of the flood. This means that even if they don't eat or sleep, each person must place an animal within 0.04 seconds. However, even if they were allowed to walk empty-handed from the ark, which was more than ten meters high, to the ground, it would take at least a few minutes.
In addition, the size of Noah’s Ark alone cannot provide basic living space for 1 billion species of animals. As we all know, many animals have very high requirements for the environment and food. For example, giant pandas in China only eat bamboo plants; penguins and polar bears only live in extremely cold areas; some soil-dwelling insects may die if the relative humidity of the environment is less than 100. Death due to loss of water; animals such as ants and bees rely on social organizations to survive, etc. Obviously, Noah and others were unable to provide these basic conditions for such animals.
There are also many animals that only live on specific continents. After the flood recedes, how can they cross the ocean and return to their original continent? For example, due to the high mountains and dangerous rivers, early humans spent hundreds of thousands of How could earthworms and snails migrate to all parts of the world in just a few years, and how could earthworms and snails climb from the top of Mount Ararat in Turkey to all parts of the world in just a few thousand years?
(4) How could the Ark dock at Mount Ararat flooded all the mountains in order to drown all the animals on the land (Genesis 7:19). 150 days later, when the flood began to subside, the Ark docked on Mount Ararat. From this, it can be concluded that the height of Mount Ararat at that time should be close to the height of the highest mountain in the world. Currently, the highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest in the Himalayas. According to measurements by Chinese scientists in 2005, its altitude is 8,848 meters, while the current height of Mount Ararat is approximately 5,000 meters.
Scientist analysis pointed out that about 60 million years ago, due to the northward drift of the Indian plate and the collision with the Eurasian plate, the Indian plate was later inserted into the mantle. The Indian continent is like a wedge inserted under Tibet. Because its northward movement is blocked by Tibet, it slowly squeezes and lifts Tibet, forming the Himalayas. At present, the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate are still squeezing each other at a rate of 5.08 centimeters per year, and Mount Everest is still rising by about 1.27 centimeters per year.
We can reasonably speculate that over the past 5,000 years, the Himalayas have basically been increasing at this extremely slow rate. It can be estimated from this that during the legendary Noah's Flood, the height of Mount Everest would not differ by more than 200 meters from its current height. At the same time, there is no evidence that there has been a violent geological collapse in the Mount Ararat area of ??Turkey in the past 5,000 years, so we can be sure that Mount Ararat at that time, just like now, was at least several times lower than Mount Everest at that time. km. Then the peak where Noah's Ark landed when the Great Flood first began to recede could not have been Mount Ararat.
(5) How to increase the amount of water on the earth several times. If the flood was higher than Mount Everest at that time, according to calculations, the amount of water added by the flood on the earth is about 3.3 times the total amount of ocean water on the earth now. . According to Genesis 7:12, the heavy rain fell for 40 days and nights. In other words, for nearly a month and a half, the global average rainfall per hour reached 9.2 meters, which is really earth-shaking.
So, where did so much water come from, and where did it disappear?
Genesis 7:11 says: “When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, that day, the great deep all the springs were burst open, and the windows of heaven were opened.” However, as we all know, there are no skylights in the sky. Rain falls from clouds, which are formed by the evaporation of water on the earth's surface. "The great deep" refers to the sea, but there is no huge "source" under the sea.
Scientists have used comprehensive research results such as seismic waves, geological drilling, volcanic sampling, high-temperature and high-pressure tests, analysis of cosmic dust components, and geomagnetic field and celestial gravity to understand the structure and composition of the earth's interior. Get a more detailed understanding. The earth is composed of three layers: the uppermost layer is called the crust, which is mainly a rock structure composed of calcium, sodium, and aluminide minerals; the middle layer is called the mantle, which is mainly composed of magnesium, iron, aluminum, silicon, and oxygen. The bottom layer is solid and becomes gelatinous as it goes up; the innermost layer is called the core, and its center is mainly solid iron with extremely high pressure. About 90% of its outer layer is molten iron, and the rest is mainly molten sulfur. Obviously, there is no large amount of hydrogen below the earth's crust, so there cannot be large amounts of water.
What impact will such a high flood have on the plants on the ground, the creatures in the lake and the sea? Friends who like to grow flowers must know that some flowers and plants are very delicate and may be accidentally watered too much. , or due to insufficient sunlight, they are easy to die. Under the water pressure of 8,848 meters high, soaked in salt water for half a year, and without sunlight and air, few plants that were originally on the ground could survive. Without these plants, the animals and people preserved on the Ark would not be able to survive because they would not be able to find food. Freshwater fish in lakes and rivers will also die due to seawater intrusion. The current record of the deepest ocean with fish living is 8,370 meters. Therefore, once the water level increases to 8,848 meters on the earth, most animals in the ocean will escape upward due to pressure and light. , many of them must have become extinct because they couldn't find food. Many plants under the sea will also die due to the tremendous pressure. However, none of this is what God in the Bible wants to do (he just wants to destroy all land animals), and it is not consistent with the actual situation we are currently seeing.
(6) Why treat modern myths and ancient myths differently? Almost no one believes in Luo Yamin’s modern myths, but why do many people believe in the more absurd myths in the Bible? But believe it unswervingly? Everyone is familiar with the stories of "Three men become tigers" and "The Emperor's New Clothes". They vividly illustrate the truth to the world: as long as non-existent things are repeatedly spread to the world, eventually many people will will regard it as fact. This is the so-called Goebbels law: a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth. If governments and major media around the world continue to report and promote Luo Yamin's modern myth in a positive way, and find some people to "testify", thousands of people will definitely believe it to be true. After long-term publicity in the media, many people already believe that aliens are hidden in the mysterious Area 51 military base in the United States. This is a good example.
In fact, several major religions in the world developed and grew with the strong support of ancient rulers. Many devout believers begin to instill their own beliefs in their children when their children are still mentally immature and lack the ability to independently judge right and wrong. As a result, beliefs are like the hereditary function of genes and continue to be popular from generation to generation. . Some religions of strong civilizations rely on their strong political and economic strength to expand to weak civilizations and groups through various means. Historically, some religions also developed the function of intimidation, and even used laws and social norms to restrict believers, so that believers would not dare to doubt any doctrine taught by the church, and would even blindly worship it. From this point of view, it is not easy for a person to always maintain independent and objective judgment without being interfered by the outside world.
Based on the source, rough writing form and contradictory content of the Creation Flood myth in the Bible, we can doubt its historical authenticity.
The New Catholic Encyclopedia said in its introduction to the Great Flood in Genesis: There is no scientific, geographical or historical evidence that a single great flood completely destroyed the civilization of ancient Mesopotamia. , not to mention destroying the entire human race. However, many conservative Christian scholars still promote the entire Bible as historical facts, believing that myths can be part of history, or that history was once full of miracles. They will not hesitate to think that burning incense and worshiping Buddha is superstitious, and that Jehovah likes to smell the aroma of burnt offerings is a historical fact; they believe that ancient snakes can talk, and they also believe that Jehovah once divided the Red Sea to save the Israelites from danger, but they cannot explain why modern times The serpent stopped talking, and why Jehovah no longer rescued the victims of natural and man-made disasters.