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Originally Posted by Torplexed
Quite a feat of navigation was performed in ancient times according to the Book of Mormon. That a group left Jerusalem after it's fall to Babylon, crossed the Arabian Peninsula and sailed from there to North America without a compass or map. But I guess it's no more fanciful than the Ark and the Great Flood which many believe in.
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In another thread once I think I calculated that for 40 days/nights of rain to deposit a boat high up the mountain they claim it landed on it needed to rain over 160 inches
per hour. At a slightly lower elevation, say 12,000 feet, it's only 150 inches per hour. Heck, let's make it 6k feet, then only 75 inches per hour! Course much of the world (and population) is therefor not bumped off. Of course the highest rainfall every recorded was very similar to that value... but it was 71 inches over 24 hours. Highest ever recorded in 1 minute was 1.5 inches (90 inches per hour). Of course every other minute was less than that, and the highest total in an hour is only ~12 inches.
While a flood (a tsunami, or something like one in effect) would be truly devastating, it makes the entire point of "the flood" sort of moot, because instead of smiting the wicked, it simply smites people below a certain altitude, lol.