The Bible says the following about what occurred: Noah Leaves Bible tell us when Noah entered the ark: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened Genesis The Bible also records when Noah and his family disembarked from the ark. And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth.
Hence, the people and animals were in the ark for over one year. Chronology The chronology of events was as follows: The rain poured down in torrents for the first forty days and nights. After that it continued to rain lightly for the next one hundred and ten days. And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days. Then God remembered Noah.
The fountains of the great deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped and the rain from heaven was restrained Genesis , , 2. The waters then abated for the next seventy-four days until Noah could see the tops of the mountains. And the waters decreased continually. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen Genesis The seventy-four days can be calculated by adding from the seventeenth day of the seventh month until the first day of the tenth month.
There were thirteen remaining days in the seventh month. The eighth and ninth month were made up of thirty days each.
The first day of the tenth month would be the seventy fourth day. Forty days later Noah sent out a raven to see if the waters had abated Genesis , 7.
Seven days after this he sent out a dove which returned to the ark Genesis , 9. After another seven days, he sent the dove out again which also returned. And he waited yet another seven days before he again sent the dove out from the ark Genesis Waited Longer The Bible then records that he waited another seven days before sending out the dove the third time Genesis This time the dove did not return.
Twenty-nine days later Noah removed the covering from the ark Genesis Fifty-seven days later God told Noah to leave the ark Genesis Summary When these figures are added up they total days: days for the rain, seventy-four days for the waters to abate, seven days afterward Noah sent out the dove.
He sent the dove a second time seven days later, Noah sent the dove for the final time after another seven days. Twenty-nine days thereafter Noah removed the covering from the ark and found the surface to be dry. Fifty-seven days later Noah, his family and the animals disembarked from the ark. Hence, the entire duration of the Flood, from beginning to end, lasted some days.
Rain poured for forty days and forty nights. The waters rose until every high hill on the earth was covered. Everything that lived on land perished in the raging floodwaters Genesis — The waters flooded the earth for one hundred and fifty days. And God remembered Noah and the animals on the Ark. The waters receded and the Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat Genesis —5. After sending out a raven, Noah sent out a dove to see if there was dry ground.
But it came back having found nowhere to perch. After seven days, Noah sent it back out and it came back with a fresh olive leaf in its mouth. And Noah knew the ground was drying Genesis — Map of Mesopotamia Iraq. Similar large local floods are common throughout history around the world. For example, monsoon storms in Bangladesh frequently produce much rain over the country and in the Himalaya Mountains, which rise in the northern part of the country Anonymous nd-b.
Runoff of water from the rain and melting snow during such storms create great floods in four rivers that converge to the Wang River, which then drains into a huge delta in the Bay of Bengal Anonymous nd-b. Thousands of people have been drowned in this delta region by many such floods during the last century. Almost every culture through history has a flood story to tell, as would the people in Bangladesh, but in each of these times and places, the floods would have been local and not worldwide.
Many creationists have pointed out that the Bible indicates that God promised not to cause another huge flood to occur and, therefore, there cannot be any floods that are similar to the Noachian Flood Genesis — Therefore, the geological record should show at least one unique flood event that is different from all the large regional floods for which there is geological evidence.
Storms that occur in Mesopotamia usually come from the Mediterranean Sea, cross the mountains in Syria, Turkey, and western Iran, move southeasterly over Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf, and then exit in the Gulf of Oman. The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers that would transport water from these storms leave higher land in northern Mesopotamia and enter a nearly flat area about km north of Baghdad.
In this km interval the gradients of these rivers are small, with the elevation dropping about 3 m per km along the course of the rivers. A similar meter drop occurs along the Tigris River.
On that basis, the gradients of the two rivers in these intervals are 0. In the additional km to the Persian Gulf sea level the gradients are only about 0. Therefore, in both southeastern and central Mesopotamia the gradients are so low that the rivers barely flow downhill, and frequent flooding could be common.
A large river has natural levees. During a big storm, water rushing down the channel carries abundant sedimentary debris. If the water in the channel overflows its banks onto the adjacent flood plain, the velocity immediately slows because of friction with the flat land, and the water at lower speed cannot carry its entire load of sediment. Heavier coarser particles are deposited abruptly on tops of the banks adjacent to the river while finer silts and clay particles are transported onto the flood plain.
When such overflowing floods are repeated year after year, the coarser sediments deposited adjacent to the river build up natural levees on both sides of the channel. Natural levees along the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers rise up to 4 to 5 meters above the river channels, and the surface of these levees slope gently away from the rivers for 5 to 8 km toward lower, adjacent, nearly-flat flood plains that are up to km wide Tactical Pilotage Chart TPC G-4C, H-6A, and H-6B.
The people living in Mesopotamia in biblical times would have had their villages on the natural levees because the flood plains would have been swampy. The watershed for the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers on which the flood could have occurred extends for more than km from the Persian Gulf through Mesopotamia into Syria and Turkey and laterally for about km from eastern Saudi Arabia to southwestern Iran — an area of more than 1.
On that basis, if abundant rain fell, not only in the mountains of Syria and Turkey, but also in Saudi Arabia and Iran, the tributary streams from these countries would all contribute their volumes of water to the flood plains of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Figure 2. Figure 2. Normally, in lesser storms most water runoff would have come primarily from the mountains in Syria and Turkey and not also from Saudi Arabia and Iran.
During the flood, upstream where water first accumulates, the depth of water on the flood plains may be barely over the tops of the natural levees, but downstream the water "piles up" because it does not flow very fast downhill on a nearly flat surface.
Therefore, downstream water depths could reach 32 m or more above the tops of the levees. This increase in depth would be intensified where the two flood plains with a width of km in the northern section would be squeezed into a km width in the lower part of the drainage system where the two rivers join.
The joining of the two rivers would also increase the volume of the water in the flood plains, thereby increasing the depth. At any rate, all higher land on the natural levees where the people in the villages were present would be completely submerged. Thus, it would be possible for a flood to have occurred in mid- Mesopotamia, perhaps about BCE, as evidenced by the scientifically dated flood deposits. When the huge storm ceased that caused the flood, there would have been huge lakes, and it could have taken months to drain the water in these lakes into the gulf — which could easily explain why the Noachian Flood took so long to recede as much as one year, according to Genesis Evidence for this poor drainage can be seen in the present-day lakes in the flood plains.
We don't quite know what to do with that. So sometimes those large numbers, I think, also serve to reinforce the mystery of the text. Some of the details of the Noah story seem mythical, so many biblical scholars believe the story of Noah and the Ark was inspired by the legendary flood stories of nearby Mesopotamia, in particular "The Epic of Gilgamesh.
He builds a boat and brings on animals and lands on a mountain and lives happily ever after? I would argue that it's the same story. Catastrophic events of this kind are not unique to the Bible.
Some contemporary examples include the tsunami that wiped out villages on the coasts of 11 countries surrounding the Indian Ocean. There was also Hurricane Katrina, described as the worst hurricane in United States history. Scholars aren't sure if the biblical flood was larger or smaller than these modern day disasters, but they do think the experiences of people in ancient times were similar to our own.
And it is here that myth helps us through that. Regardless of whether the details of the Noah story are historically accurate, Armstrong believes this story and all the Biblical stories are telling us "about our predicament in the world now. Back in the Black Sea, Ballard said he is aware that not everyone agrees with his conclusions about the time and size of the flood, but he's confident he's on the path to finding something from the biblical period.
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