They have to believe forces like erosion and tectonic mountains happen quickly to pack Earth’s history into 7,000 years. Not joking. At all.
What’s really funny is that no one believed the Earth was that young until recently. It’s like The Rapture™ and cherubic angels, totally made up, non-Biblical, hasn’t been around for even 200 years. We’re talking about people who get Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno mixed into their “ancient” belief structures.
At the peak of the flood, approximately 33,000,000 cubic feet per second (930,000 m3/s) poured over the Snake River Plain at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) and deposited hundreds of square miles of sediments eroded from upstream.[8]
Although the peak of the flood lasted a few weeks at most, erosion at Red Rock Pass continued for a few years before water ceased to spill over.
How do they reconcile the stories of Moses in Egyptian captivity, presumably part of those building said pyramids, when Noah and the Flood would have been long before any of that?
Have to make your lore consistent if you want people to get sucked into that fantasy.
To be fair, ancient Egypt lasted a long time. When the Persian empire conquered the 30th dynasty of pharaohs, the last native one, Rome had barely expanded beyond its city. When that happened, the pyramids were as old to those last pharaohs as the pharaohs are to us now. So there is quite a lot of time to say “Egyptians built pyramids, flood happened, Moses and co wind up in captivity some time afterwards”
Of course, while that’s technically internally consistent, it’s still very silly to say that the pyramids got worn down by biblical flood erosion
And let’s be clear, by sea level rise, they are talking about the Biblical flood of Noah.
So much erosion for
-checks notes-
40 days…
-checks notes again-
Why do people believe these stories?
Indoctrination from as early as they could think.
They have to believe forces like erosion and tectonic mountains happen quickly to pack Earth’s history into 7,000 years. Not joking. At all.
What’s really funny is that no one believed the Earth was that young until recently. It’s like The Rapture™ and cherubic angels, totally made up, non-Biblical, hasn’t been around for even 200 years. We’re talking about people who get Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno mixed into their “ancient” belief structures.
Was Milton the one who made the shitty movie adaptation, the shitty tv show remake, or the shitty tv show?
Aw, I kind of liked the 90s one…
I liked all of them! But I’m also currently watching the 2016 Suicide Squad on purpose. It’s nice to enjoy something terrible where no one gets hurt.
Wait, you’re intentionally and deliberately turning that on?
…you do you man.
To be fair, there is real geology behind the idea that erosion can happen fast in catastrophic food events.
From Wikipedia on the Bonneville Flood:
How do they reconcile the stories of Moses in Egyptian captivity, presumably part of those building said pyramids, when Noah and the Flood would have been long before any of that?
Have to make your lore consistent if you want people to get sucked into that fantasy.
To be fair, ancient Egypt lasted a long time. When the Persian empire conquered the 30th dynasty of pharaohs, the last native one, Rome had barely expanded beyond its city. When that happened, the pyramids were as old to those last pharaohs as the pharaohs are to us now. So there is quite a lot of time to say “Egyptians built pyramids, flood happened, Moses and co wind up in captivity some time afterwards”
Of course, while that’s technically internally consistent, it’s still very silly to say that the pyramids got worn down by biblical flood erosion