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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the Qur'an is the following verse (29:14) translated in English:

And We certainly sent Noah to his people, and he remained among them a thousand years minus fifty years, and the flood seized them while they were wrongdoers.

Interestingly, there are two different Arabic words used in the verse that are both translated to "years".

Some scholars believed Noah actually lived longer than 950 years, with the 950 years being before the flood and then he lived for some time after the flood.[/quote]

But the Quran was written after the Hebrew Bible, so the fact that it has the same general story for Noah doesn’t mean it’s literally true. [/quote]

And the Bible was written after the Indian Vedas. [b]Entirely possible it happened[/b] but didn't happen to the people who wrote the Bible. [/quote]

Fail. No, it is not "entirely possible it happened". [/quote]

DP. Fail. I'm the poster with the friend who participated in a scientific expedition in the Black Sea. They found absolute evidence that a flood happened that would have affected the Bosphorus. It didn't affect the Mediterranean and isn't the Gilgamesh flood, and who can say about animals going in two-by-two. But a flood absolutely happened in the region and people living in Anatolia and other parts of the region would have known it. For them, this was "the world," so to them, the world was flooded. [/quote]

Evidence for a local flood event is not evidence for a biblical flood.  :roll: [/quote]

Huh? The Bible talks about a flood. Therefore, the flood in the bible is evidence of a "biblical" flood.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: DCUM needs to upgrade its atheists. [/quote]

Sorry, I realize I wasn't completely clear, and you're going to miss the point (again).

1. The flood in the Bible is a "biblical" flood, by definition. 
2. There was a historical flood in the Black Sea. To the people in the region, the flood covered the "world" as they knew it.
3. The people who wrote the bible would have known about that flood, and that's probably the flood they wrote about.

This is all basic logic. Keep re-reading if you still don't understand.[/quote]

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