I’ll admit it’s not the best link but the basics of finding a boat shaped depression in the ground which showed strong indications of carbon and metals, and even a metal rivet, plus the nearby anchor stones, are certainly NOT HS and should be studied by other archeologists.
First of all, it is just a belief that the bible is the word or work of God. If the entire earth was filled to 29,000 feet the only way for the water to go would be to evaporate, The length of time for that to evaporate to 15,000 feet would cause so much humidity The people or animals wouldn’t be able to breathe, then it would also take time for the other 15,000 feet to evaporate, and since the earth is said to be entirely covered with that much water, there would be a lot of water left for the Ark to sit down on Ararat. Plus all the insects worms etc., and plant life would die after being covered with that much water, there is no way a psalm tree would have leaves.There are many other things impossible in the story. There may have been a flood, but only in an area and it was exaggerated to make a nice story.
I would also add that just getting the animals from other parts of the world would be some challenge, and their swimming back to where they came from must have been quite a trip!
I don’t believe the Bible is a historical tale, and I am not religious, but this one can be explained logically: Genesis 1 is chronological, Genesis 2 is a summary.
Like 9/11 can be explained minute by minute, or just say “Two hijacked planes hit the World Trade Towers and they fell, another plane hit the Pentagon, and another plane crashed in Pennsylvania.”
The Genesis “summary” appears to be chronological. Your example is also chronological. Yet the Genesis 2 account doesn’t match the other one, so instead of saying someone made a mistake, you want it to be sequentially garbled.
I realize that pointing out logical error in these “explanations” is fatuous. But no one in the Old World had seen “corn” (American maize) until after Columbus. It’s like they’re not even trying very hard; they must have no respect for anyone they’re explaining this to.
You’re forgetting the firmament. We think of a round planet and a sun that is one of many stars spread over a vast distance. We think of the cycle of water between the atmosphere and the earth as being the only way to cause a flood.
The OT was in line with Babylonian cosmology. The universe is water. To create a space for the world, XXX divided the waters to make a space for dry land, which is flat. The pillars of the heavens hold up the firmament, which is holding back the waters both above and below the earth. During the flood, XXX made big openings in the firmament to allow water through. Rain, possibly, comes through smaller holes, under divine control. So after the flood, XXX would have to push water back beyond the firmament, or the ground would have to absorb it, or maybe there’s somewhere underground that all rain goes.
The point is that no one hearing the story back in the day would have thought that the water would need to evaporate or that the only place it could go was into the admosphere. It would drain away, like all floods do, possibly over the edges of the earth, possibly being divinely shifted outside the bubble, whichever way XXX wanted to do it this time.
Oh, and the stars were attached to the inside of the firmament. It was a smaller universe. According to the Tower of Babylon story, the firmament was close enough that there was a danger of building a stone building high enough to reach it.
Poop floats, therefore the ark’s seaworthiness actually improved over time. Why, with enough poop in the hold, it could have hydrofoiled. And given the improved top speed of the hydrofoil, it was easy to zip around to China, Australia etc to drop off the weird exotic animals.
