Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "A Fox News Host Really Said This About Noah's Ark" video.

  1. Funny that, when nobodies ever found Noah's Ark. In truth, the ark was probably just a small boat or raft, capable of holding Atrahasis' family, and a little of their livestock, which grew in proportion in its tale. There was a flood, at about 14,000 BP, when the Arabian Sea spilled through the Straight of Hormuz, and flooded the lowlands that is now the Persian Gulf. However, the Gulf took about 5,500 years to obtain the size that it now is. The inrush of water took about seven days, according to the original flood story. I would say that news made it to someone, that the Sea was getting high enough, that it would spill over into the lowlands, and someone did build a raft or boat, or already had one, for themselves, and a tale was created from that, in ancient Sumeria, where it is recorded at its earliest. There is no such a person as Noah, which was concocted by the Jews. However, Atrahasis, (the original character), is also called two other names, in differing accounts of the same story, just not the Jewish 40 days version with Noah. The Jews loved to highly embellish their stories, and rename ancient people, with their Jewish hero's names. They did it with Moses too.
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  2. Jennifer Loftus The oldest recorded flood tale, that of the Sumerians, say that it was only the Euphrates river that flooded, and that many people were drowned in the lowlands, over a 7 day rain. That Sumerian tale grew in size, twice more, to where it claimed an ark was built, that landed on a mountain in Mesopotamia, and not on Ararat, as the Jews claimed. The second tale of the three Mesopotamian tales, said that the boat landed on a small hill. With each retelling, it got embellished that much more, until the Jews really polished it up for a fourth retelling, claiming it rained 40 days and the water covered the earth, with Noah landing on Ararat. I imagine, with the rapid sea level rise over those years, when the icecap melted, that there was bad weather and flooding everywhere. Florida is 1/2 the size it once was, and Cuba and Haiti was connected into one island. The sea level rose about 350 feet over those years, with the rise starting at about 14,000 BCE, which leveled off around 8500 BCE. Tales of severe flooding, during that time, are from all over the world, as you state. In the Mesopotamian tales, the flood is said to either be the Euphrates river flooding, or it is guessed that it was when the Persian Gulf was created. If a Rabbi will state the truth, and some do, they will tell you that the Torah is all metaphorical. There's a lot of metaphor in the entire Tanakh. They combined many different tales of many different Gods into one, along with renaming heroes of other lands into Jewish names, and embellishing their tales. Noah and Moses were two examples. The link below is to a chart of the sea level rise. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png
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