It's well known that Atheists deny the
existence of prophets and messengers of God, if not all then most of them,
whenever they hear their stories they reply exactly as described in the holy
Quran in the following verse:
ومنهم من يستمع اليك وجعلنا على قلوبهم اكنة ان يفقهوه وفي اذانهم
وقرا وان يروا كل اية لا يؤمنوا بها حتى اذا جاؤوك يجادلونك يقول الذين كفروا ان
هذا الا اساطير الاولين
There are those among them who (apparently) listen to you, but We have put coverings on their hearts, so that they do not understand, and heaviness in their ears. If they were to see all the signs, they would still not believe in them, so much so that, when they come to quarrel with you, the disbelievers say, “It is nothing but tales of the ancients.” [6:25]
But, how to convince the Atheists that
prophets were real and existed on Earth once, and their stories are not tales
of the Ancients?
Fortunately, the answer is easy and it's
because of ALLAH wisdom he gave it to us in his holy book, each time he mentions
a story of his main prophets he mentions a great natural or humans happening (or
phenomenon) that can be tracked or seen till our days, so by proving that such
event happened once then during its time there was a prophet too, exactly as
ALLAH said.
So starting with Noah (PBUH), the main
event was the flood, but how we can prove it scientifically?
Before talking about Noah story in Quran,
let's review the following facts about Ice age, Glacial flood, and Toba
super-eruption in short.