[_ Old Earth _] The Wolrdwide Flood (Question)

[lordkalvan]

OP's questions... I think the reason you don't see the flood being taught is simple, if they "non christain and on this site some christians" admit the flood is real. well then they have a problem. The bible is true, all of it, no cherry picking. Also that would mean that God exist, Jesus is the son of God, evolution is a joke (which it is) and that God is still dealing with mankind.. So the easiest way is to say the flood never happen, we've been here millions of years the earth is billions of years old on and on it goes.... 8-) 8-)
after all we don't want to poison the minds of little children with the teachings of Jesus about loving one another.. lets teach them they came from ape... :crazyeyes:

The single most obvious reason that the Noachian Flood is not taught as science - which I presume is what you are complaining about - is because of the singular lack of any persuasive evidence that it existed as a global phenomenon on the scale envisaged.

You also engage in the logical fallacy of assuming that if the Flood is 'real' then everything else in the Bible must also be 'real'. This is not the case. There are a number of things in the Bible that bear some relation to historical reality which no one would argue about; this does not mean that everything in the Bible is true.

Schliemann used The Iliad to help him establish the historical reality of Troy. Does this mean that everything in The Iliad must be true? The burning of Atlanta features in Gone With the Wind; does this make the rest of the novel 'real'?

There are multiple strands of evidence that attest to an Earth and Universe billions of years old. This is not taught because it is 'easy'. It is far easier intellectually to avoid scientific inquiry altogether and depend on 'just so' stories.

And humanity did not 'come' from apes; all apes and humans share a common ancestor from which both evolved, as do the primates and all mammals.

It is possible to view science (including evolution) as a more profound understanding of the glories and magnificence of God's creation than was open to the compilers of the Bible. That the stories in the Bible (and the Old Testament in particular) should be regarded as moral allegory and metaphor does not reduce the significance of the Bible as the word of God. God speaks in ways that those who hear Him can best understand. Three thousand years ago that understanding was profoundly different from what it is now.