Physical events (like the flood...) have physical causes

A recent article on the topic of dwarf stars flaring:

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/flaring-red-dwarf-star/

Consider what the Bible, the King James version at least, has to say about the seven days preceding the flood:

"GEN 7:4 For 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..........
.
GEN 7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth."

There is something interesting going on in that question of the seven days just prior to the flood but the Bible itself does not explain it, at least not clearly. There is one other place in the Bible which refers to those seven days. In Isaiah 30:26, the prophet makes a vague reference which he does not bother to explain because he assumes everybody in his audience understands the reference. He is describing the end of the world in far time and says (as the King James version has it)

"ISA 30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days,,,"

Now, what has actually happened is that this text has been translated OUT of some language which, like Russian, does not use articles (when you have six declension cases you don't NEED articles); it should read "...the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of THE seven days,,,"

In other words, the passage is referring back to the seven days mentioned in Genesis 7:4 - 7:10.

Nonetheless, Isaiah 30:26 is mistranslated in all more modern Bibles, at least as far as we know. Without reinserting the word "THE" in the passage, what it looks like the prophet is trying to say would be "as bright as if somebody were to somehow manage to cram seven days of daylight into one day". In fact the NIV actually inserts the word "FULL" ("... The light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven FULL days") and that totally locks the mistranslation into place.

Midrashic sources absolutely connect Isaiah 30:26 back to the two passages in Genesis 7, claiming that God turned on the primordial lights of the universe for the week prior to the flood, to commemorate the death of Methuselah (e.g. Louis Ginzberg “Legends of the Jews”, Vol 5 page 175).

Turning on the "primordial lights of the universe" for seven days would have to get everybody's attention. What the prophet is saying is that there were seven days of intense light and radiation, followed by the flood. In other words, the flood itself was preceded by some kind of a major event within our system, and that the flood itself was part and
parcel of some kind of a system-wide catastrophe.

The kind of catastrophe which you normally associate with blinding light and radiation would be a nova condition. We can rule out the possibility of our present sun (a main sequence star) having gone nova at that time since that would have fried the entire system to cinders and we wouldn't be here. The next item down on the list for things like that, which would in fact get our attention but would stop short of frying the entire system, would be for one of the dwarf stars, Jupiter or Saturn, to have FLARED as the article mentioned above describes. That is basically what happened and that is basically what brought about the flood at the time of Noah.

There are two parts of the flood story presented in the Bible that are less than believable, i.e. the claim that sin was involved and the claim that nothing survived outside the ark.

Claiming that God wiped the entire world over sin, only to have sin back in business forty years later as if nothing had happened amounts to acusing God of being stupid. God is not stupid; the flood was a cosmic disaster and sin had nothing to do with it.

Likewise, there is no trail of marsupial bones from the Caucasus down to Southern India. The kangaroos and wallabies and what not living below the Wallace line survived somehow or other in and around Australia.

More on this sort of thing as well as the question of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, and the Ganymede Hypothesis:

Paperback: https://tinyurl.com/2vbeatuc

Kindle Ebook: https://tinyurl.com/bd3yd56r

Video Intro to the Ganymede Hypothesis:

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GanymedeHypothesis