Or the first nation to be destroyed en masse by God is the Prophet Noah. God destroyed them by bringing in a big flood that drowned them. "So they rejected Noah, then We delivered him and those with him in the ark, and We drowned those who belied Our verses. They were a people who are blind (his eyes). "(Surat al-A'raaf verse 64).
According to the Old Testament, the Jewish scriptures and the Christians who are not genuine, the time of Noah's flood hit the entire world: And God saw that the wickedness of man on earth is big, and that every imagination of the thoughts in his heart only evil deeds. And this makes God regretted that He had made man on earth, and it grieved Him. And God said, "I'll membinasakah man whom I have created from the earth's surface, the two species present, humans and animals, and everything that creeps, and the birds of the air, that they have disappointed me that created them. However, (the Prophet) Noah get love in the eyes of God. (Genesis 6: 5-8).
But according to investigations by experts, the flood that occurred when it did not hit the entire world, but only occurs in Mesopotamia (now including Iraq region), especially in the valley between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. But because the valley was so extensive that when the super heavy rain for days, filled with the two rivers and water to drown the valley between two rivers. So much so that waters the valley that changed as the sea and drown the whole Ummah of Prophet Noah who disbelieve in the valley.
In 1922 to 1934 Leonard Woolley of The British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania leads an archaeological dig in the desert between Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. In a place that was once thought once stood a city named Ur, they do digging.
From the ground up to five feet down there is a layer of soil that contains a variety of objects made of bronze and silver. These objects Sumerian thought to have lived some 3,000 years before Christ. Those people who have been able to create objects from metal.
Under the first layer, they found a second layer containing the deposit of sand and clay as thick as 2.5 meters. In that layer there are the remains of small marine animals.
Surprisingly, under layers of sand and clay there is a third layer contains household objects made of pottery. Pottery was made by human hands. Not found any metal objects on that layer. Chance of relics of ancient Sumerian people who lived in the Stone Age.
It is estimated by experts, the second layer is silt from floods that occurred in the days of Noah. The floods have drowned the people of ancient Sumeria, the chances are they are a people of Noah-and flood-borne silt pile up the rest of civilization that society. Centuries, or tens of centuries later after the flood has gone, then comes back a new community on top of the second layer, namely the Sumerians 'new' a civilization much more advanced than the Stone Age are silted it.
Archaeological investigations at several places to get information, the flood hit areas are very wide, which stretches 600 km from north to south and 160 km from west to east. The floods have drowned at least four ancient Sumerian city of society, ie, Ur, Erech, Shuruppak and Kish.
Evidently, the flood did not hit the entire world, but only struck the region inhabited by the Ummah of Prophet Noah. Another area that is not the ummah of Prophet Noah was not flooded. The investigation archaeologists with the word of God in the Qur'an that He only destroy the people of a country that has sent a messenger to them, then they deny it. Other country does. "And it is not Rabbmu destroy the towns until He had sent in the capital was an apostle who recite Our Signs to them, and never (well) We destroy the cities unless its people in a state of doing kezhaliman. (Surat al-Qasas ayat59)
Narrated in the Qur'an, God instructs Noah to bring animals of each pair (male and female) into the ark: Until when Our command came and the kitchen was emitting water, We said: "Muatkanlah into the ark of the respective animals pair (male and female), and the family unless the people who had earlier statutes against him and (load also) those who believe ". And do not believe with it except for little Noah. (Surah Hud verse 40).
Questions that might arise, whether the whole animal on earth is raised to Noah's boat? Experts interpret the book of the Christian circles, the whole animal on the face of the earth, each pair, raised to the Noah's boat. Because, as said earlier, in the book they say the flood was global. So that should be saved must all living species on earth.
Such interpretation obviously confusing their own. First, very few followers of Noah, because most of them broken. With the level of science and technology are very low and very little of their personnel, how they collect thousands or hundreds of thousands of living species on earth?
Means there must be followers of the Prophet Noah sent to various parts of the world, then bring home thousands of species that they encountered with a very large ship. There are followers of the Prophet Noah with a large ark sent north and south poles to carry a pair of polar bears, a pair of pelicans, a pair of seals and various other polar animals, and all it brought back their country.
Also there should be a boat expedition sent to the Americas to bring a pair of bison, a pair of tigers, a pair of bears, a pair of anaconda snake, a pair of leeches, a pair of piranha fish, a cow, a pair of cheetahs, sepasan goat, a pair of vultures, a pair of wolves, a pair dog ticks, and a pair of thousands of other animal species from the continent.
How many years they need to be able to collect all the animals? How much pet food should they prepare? How can they distinguish male fleas and lice females? How many thousands of cages that they would have on the ark so that the animals do not prey on each other?
After all this ship back home, thousands or hundreds of thousands of species of animals from around the world were put into a Noah's ark. How hundreds of thousands of species from around the world could survive apart with its natural habitat until the flood subsided? Does the food chain cycle while it stops spinning? No way!
Various questions will not be answered with a logical interpretation by those who support a global flood in the days of Noah.
The Quran does not mention Noah's flood hit the entire world. As explained in various verses of the Quran, Allaah's just inflicted upon a people who reject the teachings of his prophet wrongdoers, not to the other. So adzabnya was only a local or regional nature.
Thus animals are transported Noah did not come from around the world, but only animals found in the region, especially animals commonly kept and bred man, like cows, goats, horses, poultry, camels and the like. The animals that Noah and his followers needed to support their new life after the great flood
