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DID YOU KNOW that Ireland experienced non-stop rain for 20 years?
While our less-than-brilliant weather may make this feel like a very recent event, it actually happened way back in 2345BC.
According to evidence uncovered in this Sunday’s ‘Secret’s of the Irish Landscape’ programme on RTÉ One, this period of non-stop rainfall makes it possible that the biblical story of Noah’s great flood really did happen.
Professor Mike Baillie from Queen’s University in Belfast has proven that the 20-year flood coincided with the traditional date for Noah’s flood.
“According to the ancient Annals of the Four Masters, the whole of Ireland had to be evacuated at this time,” Baillie said.
We believe this global event was caused by a big explosive volcanic eruption which loaded the atmosphere with dust to reflect the sunlight away and cause widespread cooling at the earth’s surface.
Baillie has also discovered that freak weather events such as these tend to happen every thousand years or so.
With Ireland experiencing its last one in 540AD – when it rained for 10 years straight – the downpour to end all downpours is long overdue.
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Most biblical stories are based around real events … Just with a religious explanation for them. I don’t subscribe to any religion however I do think that the stories told in most religions have a foundation in fact and the story evolved to suit the beliefs of the religion.
“According to evidence uncovered in this Sunday’s ‘Secret’s of the Irish Landscape’ programme on RTÉ One, this period of non-stop rainfall makes it possible that the biblical story of Noah’s great flood really did happen.” Ah, a hard science programme then :)
Haha very good. Making fairy stories come true. That’s like calling thatcher a socialist ha.
In fairness, it doesn’t say that Noah and his ark were true, just the flood bit was true.
If it did rain for that long it’s probably the source of the Noah story.
And the date 2345bc sounds a little dodgy. Are ye sure it wasn’t 3456bc or 1234bc……hmmmm???
I don’t think the Noah story was set in Ireland.
The Atrahasis/Noah story comes from Mesopotamia so I’m not sure how a long period of rain in Ireland would be related. It seems like someone trying to prove biblical literalism to me.
Seriously, some atheists need to take a chill pill.
Can I borrow one off you? I appear to have left all my “chill pills” back in the 90s, you know, like the rest of the civilised world.
If Noah’s Ark happened, who recorded the story and how did they get all the Animals in Australia?
Nor was it set in Australia as he forgot about the Kangaroos.
@Michopotamus. What was so uncivilised about the 90′s then?. Am I blind to the Utopia we currently live in.
@Kevin. What about the Savita case, have things improved that much, I think not. Just a lot more flashier cars on the roads, thats the only difference.
It was, sure didn’t Enda issue him with a certificate of Irish heritage.
It could be that the 20 years of rain in Ireland was indicative of an overall global trend in weather. If the climate was such that it could rain for 20 years in Ireland then it’s plausible that it could rain for over a month in the Middle East.
I think that the Noah story is an exaggerated version of a tale about a farmer who saved some livestock in a boat.
Its the governments fault ;)
well if it does happen, we’ll be blamed for it! what with global warming, climate change etc etc, its all out fault! quick come up with another way to tax us! rain tax?
ah for feck sake! I’ll never get all me turf cut if this happens!
Theres a leak in my roof for the last 20 years. Big deal
Nowt to do with the Ark sure that was only 40 days of rain.
Sure he headed for Spain after 40 days, wouldn’t you?
In those biblical times when there be giants, days were 6 months long!
Hard to Noah if this could happen again but at least we have lots of people with arks degree’s.
Won’t somebody pleeeease think of the children
I’d say the women were very wet in those days!! ;)
Obviously if it was raining.
So basically another biblical tale is exposed as having its basis in a now explainable, recurring, natural phenomena. Yet instead of saying that we get the opposite…
Are you seriously using Noah’s arc to reference a historical period? FFS I come here to get away from the journalists stuck in the 1920′s
As somebody above pointed out they aren’t saying that at all. What they are saying is that there was a prolonged period of rain which was probably later used as the source for such stories.
Exactly. People should probably watch the program. I’m looking forward to it. Good to see our licence fee being used for good program’s like this rather than the usual muck.
There is a correct way of trying to establish scientific theories. Peer review exists for a reason, to give the scientific community a chance to review any data and see if it agrees with the conclusions.
What this is doing is exactly the equivalent of what that ancient aliens show does on the history channel. It is nonsense trying pass itself off as science by presenting itself somewhere it will be less likely to encounter critical analysis.
It’s a TV show.
ha?
one more wwek of rain and we can break this record
love rain
anyone know where I can get some ‘Ark’ sized timber?
The Ark shop in Ship Street, Dublin. Better hurry before it goes under.
Noahs flood… Seriously? Unsurprising to see that this professor is from north – plenty of creationist-type wackos up there.
Baillie is a proper palaeoclimate scientist who has done hugely important work, even if he does like to court the limelight with dramatic assertions, and while I haven’t seen the programme, I’d be willing to bet that the press release copy that is the source here is grossly misleading.
But they could have just as easily said it coincided with Australian aborigines flood myth or the Indes flood myth! Pure sensationalism to link it with Noah.
Funny how a reference to the Gilgamesh flood myth is acceptable but the Noah one is not
My thought too, its scandalous to bring a made up story into science like that. At the same time there was major flooding around that time and people at the time, without any scientific knowledge, tried to make sense of it and invoke a “divine” intervention.
Incredible the way these stories survive and are even believed by people in the Western world.
Oh I’d love it to rain like that again! Love the rain!
Go on red thumb me!!
If this happens again expect a rain tax.
Will we still have to pay the water tax?
Not if ur house is under 100 M of water . They won’t be able to read the meter !!
where did they get that date 2345BC? from a Mayan? Can’t wait to see the programme.
From tree ring dating, aka dendrochronology. And that a volcano was probably responsible they know from tephra dating, all backed up by AMS radiocarbon dating. Any more questions lol?;-)
Twas on reeling in the years the other night…
If rain non stop and someone decided the do ark now government probably ask for tax…!!! …
FFS, the Four Masters were Christians. Their saying Noah’s flood happened here too proves nothing except that they believed what they read in the Bible. The term ‘evidence’ is being confused here with the similar-sounding ‘shit people just make up’.
There is scientific evidence suggesting that there was many major floods throughout history, sea levels have both risen and declined and many cultures talk about cataclysmic floods so there is some substance to this , i myself don’t believe the noah and stuff but i’d say true events have been merged into bibles.
I thought all cultures reference some massive flooding event? Cant give noah all the credit
We just had it ….was it not last summer
They would probably still bring in the water rates
Better bring out a volcano erupting causing severe rain tax.
Hang on – “According to evidence uncovered in this Sunday’s ‘Secret’s of the Irish Landscape’” it rained in Ireland for 20 years, well and good. Then it makes a huge leap to a quote from Professor Mike Baillie “We believe this global event [...]“. Never mind about the Noah’s Ark bit, either this story has been edited of all meaning or someone is not very good at science….
If the country is going to need a bailing out,I blame Fianna Fail.
‘Aliens from the planet Zarg set up their own reservoir to help with their dwindling water supply.Have never heard of earth,humans and this story has nothing to do with either’
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John-Joe Murphy
‘Ha ha sure Enda and the boys will probably go up and charge them water tax ha ha’
FFS will it ever end?
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