Noah and Global Warming

[Banana Blunt]

Just a random thought, but... does anyone else see some parallels between Noah & the great flood and our contemporary problem with climate change & rising sea levels?

"When Noah was six hundred years old, God, seeing man's wickedness which had become abundant in the earth, was saddened, and decided to send a great deluge to destroy disobedient mankind. But He saw that Noah was a righteous man, and instructed him to build an ark and gather himself and his family." - Wikipedia

For argument's sake, lets all agree that sea levels are rising rapidly. A few amongst us are taking this issue very seriously, trying to warn others or prepare for the worst. Yet the majority of mankind doesn't know or care and is just continuing to live, by whatever means possible -- mankind's wickedness -- causing further sea rise and speeding up their/our demise.

Maybe them pansy scientists is the Noah's of our day? Makes me want to build an ark of my own, and by that I mean head for the hills which a bunch of guns.

Thoughts? Opinions? Discuss

[Howard Radford]

No, new scientific studies show that water levels wouldn't rise, but evaporate before water levels got too high.

[mvpena]

Originally Posted by Howard Radford

No, new scientific studies show that water levels wouldn't rise, but evaporate before water levels got too high.

I think you are taking the analogy too literally.

The Noah story can apply to anything. An overabundance of anything will create some kind of consequence.

[Howard Radford]

Originally Posted by mvpena

I think you are taking the analogy too literally.

The Noah story can apply to anything. An overabundance of anything will create some kind of consequence.

That would be the case if banana hamik didn't mean it in a literal way.

[easeoflife22]

Noah's ark was a made up story based off a Sumerian story of a king from Gilgamesh. A freak storm blew in across Africa, and the rain cause the Tigris river to flood during the night which filled the whole valley. The king lashed a bunch of cargo boats together and put his family on it. They also took all there animals as they would owe debts if they didn't and even a king could be enslaved for debts in that culture. During the night the make shift barge floated down stream and out to sea. Since they had no knowledge that they went out to see, they thought the storm flooded the planet. Eventually, they reached a shore and thought they were on the highest peak of the world. Later on the story was retold many times and eventually the story was adapted as Noah's ark and put into the Bible with the rest of the bullshit.

If anything, nobody should even be worried about global warming since the earth has systems for cooling itself. Really, the big concerns should be the encroaching resource and food shortages and the acidification of the Ocean. We have the tech to rebuild the Ocean, but billions are going to die in resource and food wars. Rioting and public unrest has already begun in many poorer regions of the world.

[mvpena]

Originally Posted by easeoflife22

Noah's ark was a made up story based off a Sumerian story of a king from Gilgamesh.

The name of the king was Gilgamesh. Thats just the oldest story of which the story of Noah sounds like. There were tons of stories from that time that sounded just like Noah's.

[leuda]

and a voice from the other end of the spectrum.


God promised not to do that again.... not into doing the same trick twice.

[Mufasa09]

2012 pole shift = flood

[Nerd Fangs]

Originally Posted by mvpena

The name of the king was Gilgamesh. Thats just the oldest story of which the story of Noah sounds like. There were tons of stories from that time that sounded just like Noah's.

Because they all got adapted from that story, like he said.

Duh.

[combatwomabt6]

Originally Posted by Mufasa09

2012 pole shift = flood

But we KNOW how much water is frozen in the caps, even if they melt, they say there still would not be enough to cover the entire planet.

also, if the whole world WAS covered in water, there would be so much water vapor in the air, you would literally drown. so Noah fails there too.