The Flood (Gen 6-8)

1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

• This is interesting. It suddenly goes from Noah being 500 to describing a general passing of time by saying "when men began multiplying and daughters being born unto them," then eventually back to Noah again. The next verse, which carries on with this sentence, gets VERY interesting.
  

2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

• The "sons of God?!" People think this means the angels, but this cannot be. God is supposed to have only ONE son. If they're "angels," then why is God letting them "materialize" here on Earth from heaven, roam around freely, and also letting them take wives? Why would angels take wives? Why is God sanctifying the marriages of these sinful humans with his holy angels? This does not make sense.
  

3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

• This verse is very disturbing. Did God mean he's going to leave us alone on Earth when he says "My spirit shall not always strive with man..?" Where the hell would he go?
  
• The most disturbing part is God comparing himself with us as "flesh" by saying "for that he ALSO is flesh." If I compare myself to another man, I say "For he ALSO is a man."
• Next, God merely says "his days shall be 120 years." Then miraculously, everyone's DNA and aging genes change all at once so that we don't live to be 900 years old. If people are over this age, then the process should start at this point. At the very least, this age limit would start with new pregnancies, which actually isn't so. Later on, Noah's grandchildren are still living lives of up to 500 years. This contradicts God's statement here.
• If people lived for up to 1,000 years, and the earth is 6,000 years old, then we shouldn't find ANY human fossils older than 5,000 years except of course for Abel's remains.
  

4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

• This says that giants were in those days both before AND after these "sons of God" had children with human women. First of all, who are these "Giant sons of God" that can reproduce with humans? Every species MUST be genetically matched to reproduce. These "sons of God" MUST be humans, not any "spiritual holy angel beings."
• It's also disassociating these "giants" from humans, meaning that there were two types of "people" around since the beginning that were somehow different from each other, but genetically similar enough to reproduce with each other. But why are they called the "Sons of God?"
  
• Who is this "God" with "sons" roaming about on Earth? God up to this point has some very human qualities. He sounds more like a "lord" or "king," if you will, of this group of "Giants" which are his "sons." And he has certain qualities and descriptions of a geneticist such as having to put Adam to sleep, surgically removing a rib from Adam in order to literally "clone" a woman out of his genetic material, then surgically sewing Adam back up.
• "God" almost sounds like an Extraterrestrial Group of "giants" who came down and genetically manipulated our evolutionary ancestors DNA with perhaps theirs which explains what is meant by "our image and our likeness (Gen 1:26)" and made us into "slaves" in the the Garden of Eden to "till the ground." Is this perhaps why we can't find our "missing link?" Strangely enough, this is very similar to the Sumerian's creation story, which dates back to before 6,000 BC.
  
• It should be noted that in previous translations, these giants are called "Nephilim." Nephilim is a very fascinating word, and has a very fascinating history. I advise researching it.
  

5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

• The very first verse so far in the Bible where God can supposedly "read your mind." He was incapable of this while Adam and Eve were being tempted, after they ate the fruit, when they "hid" from his "presence," and when he had to question Cain about where Abel was.
• On the contrary, this isn't necessarily the case when the verse is taken in context and examined. If God is "seeing" that man is committing evil, then he can safely assume that their thoughts and imaginations are continuously evil. If you look at mass murderers and serial killers, you know that their imaginations and thoughts are continuously evil without even having to "read their minds."
  

6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

• This is sad. God felt "sorry" for creating us. If God knows the Future, he would have known he was going to feel sorry for creating us to begin with. This doesn't make sense.
  

7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

• This is horrible. God's only solution to the problem is MASS MURDER?! What would you do differently if you were an all powerful God? Would it be mass murder? If not, then you're a morally better person than God.
• Also, people love to argue that "God doesn't break his commandment to kill, or "murder" as many suggest that is what the commandment means. They act like it's not "murder" if God has a supposed "law" against something that imposes the death penalty which is supposed to make his killing "justified." However, before God supposedly made these laws against anything with a death penalty that turned murdering into "justified killing," then EVERYTHING was murder. God has not issued any such commandments yet, so therefore, God murders. Even if these so called "laws" were already announced, he would still be murdering innocent babies and his "giant sons" in this flood.
  

8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

• Now God contradicts himself from his earlier statement of "I will destroy man.." by letting one man live. God can change his mind and do whatever he wants. If he changes one thing about his personality, plans, or so called "promises" in the Bible at any time without letting people know, then the Bible is rendered Obsolete except for what little historical accuracy it has. He can do whatever he wants, when he wants, and he doesn't have to be nice about it.
• It's interesting to note that there are hundreds of cultural flood stories, all of which "the Gods" announce the incoming flood to a person God wants to save, warn that person to build a boat, and fill it with animals and his family to repopulate the Earth. The biggest difference in the biblical story is that it is conveyed as a world flood, where as the flood stories that predate it only say it was a localized flood. I'll cover why it can't be a massive earth flood later as I come across each of the absurdities.
  

9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. 10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

• Now the story all of a sudden snaps back from the "giant sons of God" tangent and back to Noah again just to reiterate him having sons again.
  

11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

• The violence has only begun. God causes WAY more violence in the future than man is at this point in the story, I'm sure.
  

13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

• Here is the famous warning of the flood to a person of God's choosing that resembles almost every other flood legend.
  

14Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

• God is giving the size and dimensions to Noah in these verses. God is quite the engineer.
  

17And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

• Can't God just "zap" them out of existence? Why does he have to kill them with a natural disaster?
  
• Everything on Earth shall not die. God is lying as I'll point out later when I get to the juicy bits.
  
• Notice the "under heaven" part. It's in the context of "under the sky."
  

18But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

• Here is where God promises not to drown Noah and his family. Noah has brothers and sisters he apparently had to turn away and deny entry of the ark if they asked him if they could come along. Hundreds, if not more of Noah's neighbors, friends, and townsfolk had to see Noah building a huge boat big enough to fit "all" the animals of the world, and they apparently didn't care enough to ask questions as to Noah's motives.
• Hundreds of people would resort to violence and rioting in order to get on the boat and overthrow Noah should he deny them entry.
  

19And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

• This is impossible to any logical thinker. Where did they get such animals as polar bears and penguins, among other animals indigenous to other climates and regions of the Earth? How did those animals survive the sudden change climate, and how did they get back to where they are now?
• How were animals controlled from being violent, and kept from eating or killing each other? The death of just one of the males or females of ANY species would mean extinction for that species.
• For certain herbivore animals, they only eat vegetation from their native parts of the world. How did Noah and his sons gather all of this, and how was it kept fresh for 150 days?
• How did they keep meat fresh for the carnivores of the animals on the ark? How did Noah and his sons even know of these special diets? How did they get around to feeding millions of animals a day?
  
• What are the guarantees that the male and female pairs will even survive and mate with each other either on the boat, or after disembarking? Lots of territorial species exist on earth today, and are known to reject many mates before finally choosing one.
• The amount of time they had to gather up ALL the animals accounted for on Earth is impossible. And it does not account for the hundreds of millions of various species indigenous to very specific places on Earth according to both the fossil records, and where certain animals exist today.
  
• Where did the dinosaurs come in? They're animals, too. Many people think the flood killed the dinosaurs. Contrary to real science, there is no evidence for a worldwide flood, and Dinosaurs aren't even mentioned in the Bible up to this point. Dinosaurs went extinct over 70 million years ago at least.
• And yes, dating methods are accurate for many reasons. Carbon14 dating isn't even used on objects later than 50,000 years old, which excludes Dinosaurs from being dated with it for accuracy. There are other verified, accurate methods of dating fossils and remains other than C14 dating. Radiometric dating and fossils exclusive to only very specific geological rock layers which are accurately dated, for example.
  
• If you can devise your own dating method, and verify it on objects of known dates, and compare it to objects dated millions of years ago and come up with conclusive results under close scrutiny and disprove every dating method used today, then please, for all of our sakes, do it.
  
• According to the evidence of fossils in the geological fossil records, Earth has been through four mass extinctions in it's 4.5 billion year history, not just one, and certainly NOT a flood.
  

21And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

• That is a LOT of food to gather all while gathering up all the animals on Earth at the same time.
  

22Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

• Or so the story goes. It doesn't make sense at all so far. I honestly do not feel it is even necessary to continue on and destroy the flood story with logic, but I will anyway. It's fun to think and learn.
  

Genesis 7

1And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

• Here it mentions clean and unclean beasts. The laws and descriptions of the differences of clean and unclean animals aren't even mentioned until two books later which were given to Moses in Leviticus. This story is written WAY after the supposed flood with the foreknowledge of clean and unclean beasts. It is obvious that it is incorporated into this story for some reason. It is plenty of time to be falsified and grow into the huge myth and legend it is as depicted in the Bible.
• Here it mentions that "clean" beasts are to be taken by sevens, male and female. That's 14 of every "clean animal!" Multiply that by however many different species of "clean" animal there is on Earth, and you have an incredibly ridiculous amount of tons of weight. And that's not even including the "unclean" species yet.
  

3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

• The number seven is a VERY popular theme in the Bible as well as many other cultures. The Bible has 7 days of creation, the Sumerians have the 7 stone tablets of creation. The Mayans have 7 "stages" of creation.
• The Mayans are another very fascinating culture with a VERY fascinating calendar.
  
• Ian Xel Lungold has done amazing research on the Mayan calendar and has many great video lectures floating around the internet like on youtube and google.video.
  

4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

• Seven days in this verse has to do with the amount of time Noah had to gather all these animals.
  

5And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

• Noah did very impossible things in an impossible amount of time. Conclusion: The flood story is impossible.
  

6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

• So far, 1656 years have passed in the story based on everyone's age beginning with how many years Adam was alive before he gave birth to Seth.
  

7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. 10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

• Nothing special in those verses.
  

11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

• Pure nonsense in this verse. "Fountains of the great deep broken up" and "Windows of Heaven."
  
• First of all, "fountains of the great deep being broken up" sounds like some kind of underwater "floodgate" bursting open and letting some kind of "hidden reservoir" of water locked away under rock loose.
• "Windows of Heaven" literally means "windows of the sky" were opened. It sounds like the sky opened up like the sunroof of a car and water poured in. This is pure nonsense. People may say "this is a metaphor for rain," but it doesn't account for the "fountains of the deep" nonsense. But based purely on the way this verse is written, it almost depicts a flat earth with a magical sky opening up and a mysterious reservoir of water let loose from deep underground.
  
• This verse is saying that water came in from both above AND below.
  

12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

• Now it says it's raining. Taken in the context of the last verse, it's saying that it's raining from an "open window in the sky," and not mentioning clouds that we associate rain with.
  

13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

• Meanwhile, nothing is written of the countless number of people who apparently do nothing but stare like dumbfounded morons at this huge miraculous boat that is apparently saving the lives of more animals than humans.
  

18And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

• Was this the only boat on existence in earth? Hardly. The oldest boats to be found by archaeological excavation are longboats from around 7000-9,000 years ago, though a 7000 year-old seagoing boat made from reeds and tar has been found in Kuwait. Circumstantial evidence, such as the early settlement of Australia over 40,000 years ago, suggests that boats have been used since very ancient times.

19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

• This is EXTREME nonsense. First of all, fifteen cubits is roughly 23 feet. This is not enough to cover a 4 story building let alone high hill or a mountain. The Ark alone is 30 cubits high, which is about 45 feet tall. (Cubit is roughly 18 inches.)
  
• Even if it was deeper than this, the salty oceans would overflow and the pressure on the ground and plant life would be extreme. The bottom line here is that, for over 95% of all plant life on earth, salt exposure kills and pressure exposure kills. How then is the extreme variety of plant life still in existence today?

21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

• To that I say prove it.

24And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

• God "telling" Noah or not. How would Noah even know the WHOLE Earth was flooded? 150 days is not NEARLY enough time to sail around the world or even very far with apparently no sails or even ores. It's just dead weight with tons of animals resulting in tons of weight. How is this miracle boat even structurally sound enough to carry all this weight and not break or capsize during waves? Now if you think the Earth is Flat, and the horizon is all there is to Earth, then maybe you would think the whole world was flooded. Otherwise, there's no way to no for certain beyond your field of view.
  

Genesis 8

1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

• This verse is humorous in that "God remembered Noah" as if he somehow forgot. And God does not make wind pass over the Earth. We know that nature does that on it's own.
  

2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

• Here we go again with the "fountains of the deep" and "windows of the sky" nonsense. It's also worth noting that anywhere around the Earth, it is always raining 24/7 somewhere. Is there a constant worldwide flood as a result of constant rain in various places all over the Earth? Of course not.
  

3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

• Just where did these waters "return" from off the Earth continually? Probably sucked back in through the "windows of the sky" and the "fountains of the deep." I smell so much nonsense I can taste it.
  

4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

• And lots of people love to claim they found it.
• Can it be proven to be Noah's ark? No.
  
• Does that make this whole story true about a worldwide flood? No.
• Is it proof that EVERY animal on Earth was carried on it? No.
• Does it account for EVERY different species of animal on Earth? No.
• Does it account for the multitude of the various species of plants found only in specific areas on Earth? No.
• Will it disprove science, logic, evolution, geology, astronomy, and astrophysics? No.
• Will it prove the existence of God? No.
• Will it make the flood story, along with the other stories in the Bible any less of a myth? No.
  

5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

• The tenth month? In Gen 7:11, it says the rain started on "the second month." That's about 240 days according to our Gregorian calendar of today. This verifies that their methods of timing years and months had to be WAY shorter than the way we measure a year today. This would account in part to the ridiculous ages of people.
  

6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

• Time is flopping all over the place here. One minute it's "40 days." The next minute it's "150 days." It goes from "the 2nd month" when the rains started, to "the 7th month" when the ark rested, then to "the 10th month" when the tops of the mountains were visible. The contradictions and the nonsense in these time frames are ridiculous.
  

7And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

• The birds and the olive leaf nonsense. Interestingly enough, other flood myths predating the Biblical flood have this same part in their stories regarding birds and leaves.
  

13And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

• The rain started in the 2nd month of the 600th year of Noah's life. This verse is saying that it took 11 months for the "face of the ground" to become dry, then 12 months for the "face of the Earth" to be dry. How can you know if the whole Earth is dry when your obviously stuck in one place? If the ground you see is dry, then the rest of the Earth should be dry, too. More nonsense.
• Officially, 1 year has passed. It's impossible that they had enough food for 1 year for all of the animals. This story is laughable.
  

15And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 17Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: 19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. 20And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

• Now God has an amazing sense of smell, and upon smelling these "sweet savours," he felt pity and remorse for the mass murder of everyone. It's interesting to note that God "said in his heart." How does the author know what God "says in his heart?"
  

22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

• While the earth remains? So one day, God is going to go "poof" and make the Earth vanish thus rendering our existence pointless and this so called "heaven and hell test" complete.
  

This story is obviously a huge myth due alone to the abominations of logic, science, and reality. I find it hard to believe that people actually buy into it. Do they really read it and think about it, or do they just kind of skim through it without critical thinking and avoid the uncomfortable parts?
The only interesting part of this whole flood story is the very beginning of chapter 6.