What makes you think that was a metor impact...?
Ah see, that's where study comes in. That's also one of the benefits of being able to 'witness' things yourself, and use those studies to corroborate others.
Every day of the year, meteorites impact this planet. While most are tiny, and do no damage at all, occasionally you get larger ones that form "miniature" impact craters. We have also been lucky enough to witness these events first hand, (Jupiter), and get to see they have played a big part throughout the solar system, (Moon/Mars etc). We can show the existence of meteors to be fact, (Unlike your nuclear bomb and serpent/human sex theory), and have gathered enough scientific data to be able to make these statements. While religion can't even explain why there are other planets, and would probably just refer to them as "irrelevant", science aims to answer these things, and uses everything that is a part of 'reality' in order to do so. In the majority of cases, there isn't even a position of debate to be attained. For instance: If you doubt the truthfulness behind the existence of other planets, you can simply buy a telescope and look up.
Science works on truth, religion and personal belief simply assumes a truth and regards it as satisfactory. If anyone's personal truth differs slightly, they make a "new" religion and then everyone debates the issue for eternity.
Science can be just as faulty, of course.. With what you could refer to as "consensus science". An example of this would be the "effects of a global flood". In reality, the only way you could say for certain the effects of a global flood, is if you saw one happen. In essence, this is as worthless as belief in giant invisible sentient bananas.
Then of course you have media induced "lies" which further corrupt human knowledge. One such example would be Jurassic Park, where a top level paleontologist explained all about Velociraptor, and then you get to see these 7ft "beasts". The fact is, Velociraptor was only 3ft tall, the size of a young child.
However, in the majority of issues, it is simply an open and shut case. Wanna test gravity? Throw an apple in the air. Wanna check if planets exist? Look up.
You're gonna really like this one.....but weither you know it or not I've said on this board and will still defend the statment, that the flood of Noah's age was caused by a massive nuclear explosion.
Defend it with what? I could defend my, (example), belief that humans all reincarnate into frogs when they die, but without something to back up my defence of that, it is completely worthless.
But I believe even your precious Sumerian texts imply atomic scale destuctions
They're not 'precious', they're simply interesting. Getting to see what ancient men thought, how they viewed the world, what wars/disputes they had, how their stories changed and adapted to fit social, culture, and environmental trends, etc..
However, for the sake of argument.. If these people were so damn smart, (even more so than modern day humans), then surely they could have explained a nuclear explosion better than to say 'god rained down fireballs, because the people raped an angel'.
When God says "I" shall destroy the earth ect... he uses man to do it.
Just as in this day He said "I will destroy the earth with fire" and lets man discover the atom.
These are mere jumps of interpretation. Saying "I shall destroy the earth and let man do it", has no value whatsoever to the former existence of nuclear weapons. The same can be said of "I shall destroy the earth with fire". It's relevance to atoms, is non-existant.
The scriptures say "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the son of man".
The civilazation that was before the flood was every bit as advanced scientificly as we are now, if not more so.
Again, a simple "leap of faith", with no basis in reality. But you never know.. perhaps they had cars and space rockets, after all, that passage most certainly implies they did..
And Hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe, the power of the stars,
so why is it so hard to imagine they would have discovered it to, when it took us this time only a few years time at war to crack down and "do the math"
They hadn't even invented cd walkmans, what makes you think they could make an atom bomb?
You have modern day science to thank for your knowlegde about hydrogen- and even then, we can only really include our small portion of the universe in the calculations, but to think a people with no computers, no toasters, no cigarette lighters, no internet forums, and no bicycles were able to make nuclear bombs is a bit far fetched.
These are the same era of people who thought the world was flat as a popadum, water was contained in a dome surrounding the planet, that had doors which were opened by god to let the rain in. Gimme a break.
The bible says it had NEVER rained until the day the flood started.
Where? What we must take into account, is that the bible isn't a day-to-day diary. As an example: Noah's story doesn't even begin until he's 500 years old. That's a big story gap of half a millennium.
Need I mention all his descendants who hardly even get a mention, let alone a few millennia complete account of weather patterns?
The explosion pushed the earth slightly away from the sun ,and left it tilted
But for some reason, you find more evidence to say it was a man made nuclear bomb or god, as opposed to a bloody large meteor? I can only wonder what evidence that is, apart from:
"because an ancient book, written by ancient people who were so smart but didn't want to give away secrets of atom bombs, lied and said it was god"...
Or..
"because an ancient book, written by ancient people said god did it, thus it must be true."
Ok, go ahead and laugh.... but with some investigation of your own you might find some of this is more plausible than one would think.
It requires a lot more than personal supposition. But who knows.. maybe when god says "take birds on board the ark", he's actually referring to fighter jets.