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Post by myrthman on Mar 9, 2014 22:01:41 GMT -5
How would Noah's story be different if God had used something other than water to cleanse the Earth? Maybe it was another of the classic elements: fire, air, or earth. Or maybe it's something completely different. The Ark would definitely not be a big boat. What would it be? Roll it forward: what would be different about technology and history as we know it?
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Post by Bainespal on Mar 11, 2014 11:05:19 GMT -5
I've thought along those lines before. The classical Young Earth Creationist model of the Flood posits a canopy of water vapor encircling the earth, which was drawn away into the Deluge to provide part of the source of the waters for the flood.
However, Young Earth Creationists have formulated more sophisticated versions of the same theory (as well as other theories that don't involve a canopy, I believe). One version claims that the canopy was ice. Another theory that I read somewhere speculated that the canopy might have been something else entirely -- perhaps some sort of metal compound, which produced rain in the atmosphere when it dissolved. (The same theory claimed that the antediluvian sky would have looked pink because of the way the canopy would have filtered light.)
These got me thinking, what if the canopy were solid, and what if it didn't dissolve? What if instead of a cataclysmic flood, the sky literally fell, destroying civilization with a million meteorite-like impacts?
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Post by Kristen on Mar 11, 2014 11:28:10 GMT -5
There's a Lakota myth that there were two worlds before this one. The first was destroyed by fire, and the second by water, and we are living in the third world.
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Post by metalikhan on Mar 14, 2014 22:16:11 GMT -5
There's a Lakota myth that there were two worlds before this one. The first was destroyed by fire, and the second by water, and we are living in the third world. A number of mythologies and religions hold that there've been more than one age prior to the Flood. Each reached some kind of pinnacle before crashing down, and few memories or remnants of those prior ages remain. But it makes for some interesting speculation when you consider old tales indicating the existence of places like Atlantis and Mu, or sophisticated relics like the antikythera, or the map showing seaports in the Antarctic. |
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