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originally posted by: theatreboy
There is evidence of world wide floods.
One world wide flood that killed everyone except 8 people and a boat load of animals 4,000 years ago? No. NOT POSSIBLE. The science and the archeology and the history and COMMON SENSE says otherwise.
originally posted by: Terpene
It's more like 12 000 years ago and there is mounting evidence a cataclysmic event happened around that time period...
Originally posted by: IdeomotorPrisoner
It's a fun story. I think destruction/creation stories are just universal. Parallel thought, not plagiarism.
But the story is ridiculous. His age, and biblical ages in general, I attribute to Lazy writing in the second temple. They had to make it go back far enough in their own time to predate Sumeria and Gilgamesh.
I'm wondering how that old guy kept 95% of the animals from eating each-other? Gilgamesh only had to keep track of beer and livestock.
I think the post exilic jews were a little, call it ambitious, with their narrative, and didn't consider the absurdities of some of the technical portions.
Always get a picture of a dome formation in Turkey too. The same one too. That fold formation looks like a upside down boat hull!
And then the water requirements. And I'm not even sold Moses, Abraham, or Noah even existed. Maybe Saul onward. Anyone that existed concurrent with Hebrew settlements I'll believe existed in some form.
So I take a completely different parable from the flood stories, one possibly derived from genetic memory itself, population bottlenecks happen. 72k years isn't that far back really. There were more hominid species still alive, but Lake Toba affected everyone. 4 times larger than Yellowstone.
Some estimates put the entire human population to as few as a few thousand breeding pairs in the volcanic winter that followed. That's the type of event that gets committed to memory.
I think it's human recognition in the potential for instant depopulation at any moment. A lingering instinctual fear that something catastrophic can happen. I think the "for sin" part is not enough of a reason to fear the watchers.
originally posted by: 727Sky
The finding of the book of Enoch in Ethiopia which at first was said to be fake until another copy was found along with the dead sea scrolls. This video starts and covers what has been written about the watchers and all the evil that caused god to cause the great flood. Noah was the great grand son of Enoch and Enoch was someone that was taken (abducted) to "Heaven in the sky" and brought back to warn mankind and all the creatures the 300 angels created by interbreeding with human women.. This is one of the better Why Files IMO
youtu.be...
Alien Abductions in the Book of Enoch and the Search for Noah's Ark
Enoch warned the Giants and the Watchers of the world. Repent or feel God's wrath.
They ignored his warning.
The floodgates of Heaven burst forth and water rushed over the Earth, destroying everything.
The only thing to survive is a single vessel, a huge ship: the Ark.
5 months later, the waters recede and the Ark made ground on a mountaintop. A man named Noah emerged, and civilization began again.
Some version of the Noah's Ark story exists in almost every religion and every culture on Earth.
But did Noah and the Ark really exist?
There's evidence that they did.
So much evidence, that it was classified by the CIA for almost 50 years.
But why classify it? Well, there are two problems with the Noah's Ark story. One, the Ark is much older than anyone thought. And two, the man named Noah? He wasn't a man. At least, not a man from Earth.
originally posted by: General23
originally posted by: 727Sky
The finding of the book of Enoch in Ethiopia which at first was said to be fake until another copy was found along with the dead sea scrolls. This video starts and covers what has been written about the watchers and all the evil that caused god to cause the great flood. Noah was the great grand son of Enoch and Enoch was someone that was taken (abducted) to "Heaven in the sky" and brought back to warn mankind and all the creatures the 300 angels created by interbreeding with human women.. This is one of the better Why Files IMO
youtu.be...
Alien Abductions in the Book of Enoch and the Search for Noah's Ark
Enoch warned the Giants and the Watchers of the world. Repent or feel God's wrath.
They ignored his warning.
The floodgates of Heaven burst forth and water rushed over the Earth, destroying everything.
The only thing to survive is a single vessel, a huge ship: the Ark.
5 months later, the waters recede and the Ark made ground on a mountaintop. A man named Noah emerged, and civilization began again.
Some version of the Noah's Ark story exists in almost every religion and every culture on Earth.
But did Noah and the Ark really exist?
There's evidence that they did.
So much evidence, that it was classified by the CIA for almost 50 years.
But why classify it? Well, there are two problems with the Noah's Ark story. One, the Ark is much older than anyone thought. And two, the man named Noah? He wasn't a man. At least, not a man from Earth.
Sometime ago I heard the ark was found somewhere in Turkey. Actually in the Eastern part of the country but I don't know who made the claim and on what grounds.
originally posted by: BukkaWukka
a reply to: theatreboy
Evidence of Noah's Ark - wonderful and fascinating reading here for anyone interested.
Read it and then form an opinion (not directed at you theatreboy).
www.arkdiscovery.com...
Another video with more explanations www.youtube.com...
originally posted by: BukkaWukka
a reply to: Annee
I suspect, that there are powers that be that stifle all such info and hide what has been found. Much like the giant skeletons that ended up in the Smithsonian and yet no one has any trace of them. Yet, newspaper clippings, eyesight testimonies of long gone times, still claim they existed.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
The animals couldn't all fit on the ark like the story claims.
originally posted by: Degradation33
originally posted by: General23
originally posted by: 727Sky
The finding of the book of Enoch in Ethiopia which at first was said to be fake until another copy was found along with the dead sea scrolls. This video starts and covers what has been written about the watchers and all the evil that caused god to cause the great flood. Noah was the great grand son of Enoch and Enoch was someone that was taken (abducted) to "Heaven in the sky" and brought back to warn mankind and all the creatures the 300 angels created by interbreeding with human women.. This is one of the better Why Files IMO
youtu.be...
Alien Abductions in the Book of Enoch and the Search for Noah's Ark
Enoch warned the Giants and the Watchers of the world. Repent or feel God's wrath.
They ignored his warning.
The floodgates of Heaven burst forth and water rushed over the Earth, destroying everything.
The only thing to survive is a single vessel, a huge ship: the Ark.
5 months later, the waters recede and the Ark made ground on a mountaintop. A man named Noah emerged, and civilization began again.
Some version of the Noah's Ark story exists in almost every religion and every culture on Earth.
But did Noah and the Ark really exist?
There's evidence that they did.
So much evidence, that it was classified by the CIA for almost 50 years.
But why classify it? Well, there are two problems with the Noah's Ark story. One, the Ark is much older than anyone thought. And two, the man named Noah? He wasn't a man. At least, not a man from Earth.
Sometime ago I heard the ark was found somewhere in Turkey. Actually in the Eastern part of the country but I don't know who made the claim and on what grounds.
Before this goes anywhere...
They found this:
Which is one of these:
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: theatreboy
Blind trust in science is no better than blind trust in Bidens foreign policy.
Truth is truth.
originally posted by: BukkaWukka
a reply to: theatreboy
Evidence of Noah's Ark - wonderful and fascinating reading here for anyone interested.
Read it and then form an opinion (not directed at you theatreboy).
www.arkdiscovery.com...
Another video with more explanations www.youtube.com...
There are a total of 37 cat species that include cheetahs, jaguars, leopards, lions, lynxes, pumas, tigers, and many more. Among these 37 cat species is also domestic house cats.
It is believed that bigger cats like lions and tigers shared a common ancestor with smaller cats like cougars, cheetahs, and the ancestors of domestic house cats before the two lineages split around 11 million years ago.
This evidence suggests that while lions and house cats are related, one has to go back almost 11 million years to find a common ancestor between the two.
Most biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholars argue that the flood is a mythical story adopted from earlier Mesopotamian flood accounts. These earlier accounts include the 17th century BCE Sumerian flood myth Eridu Genesis,[5] the 18th century BCE Akkadian Atra-Hasis Epic,[6] and the Epic of Gilgamesh,[7] which are some of the earliest known examples of a literary style of writing. The most complete version of the Epic of Gilgamesh known today is preserved on 12 clay tablets from the library of Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (685-627 BCE). This extant Akkadian version is derived from earlier Sumerian versions. In the story, Gilgamesh and his companion, a wild man-beast named Enkidu, travel the world on a number of quests that ultimately displease the gods. After the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh embarks on a journey to learn the secret of eternal life by visiting the immortal flood hero, Utnapishtim. Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh how the god Ea (equivalent to the Sumerian god Enki) revealed the gods' plan to destroy all life with a great flood, and how they instructed him to build a vessel in which he could save his family, friends, and livestock. After the flood, the gods repented for destroying the world and made Utnapishtim immortal.
These flood stories appear to have been transmitted to the Israelites early in Israel's history. Contact between the Assyrians and the Israelites is known from the conquest of Israel and its capitol, Samaria, in 721 BCE by Assyrian King Shalmaneser V (727-722 BCE),[8] and from the attempted conquest of Jerusalem by the Assyrian King Sennacherib (704-681 BCE). These stories were apparently modified to conform to a monotheistic faith, but retained characteristics such as the destruction of nearly all living things via a flood, the salvation of a select few people and animals by the construction of a boat, and the regret of the deity for the flood, prompting a promise not to do so again. Thus, like many of the early stories in Israel's primordial history,[9] the flood story appears to be an adaptation and integration of a previously known myth into the theology of Israel.