The Year of the Flood

upward and outwards .The woolly mammoths became extinct in 10000BC.” - According to the oxford dictionary The riddle of the frozen mammoths has puzzled scientists for many years. They have been wandering if these animals existed before the flood (and thus they were caught in the deluge i.e. swamps) or they existed after the flood in the conditions that could bring their sudden death and preservation. In the book “Creation: Accident or Design?” by Harold G Coffin the mammoth…

The Chaldeans of Mesopotamia have an almost identical flood tradition described in Genesis, with the exception that all the antediluvians were giants. One giant, that reverenced the gods, was named Noa. He lived in Syria with his three sons, Sem, Japet, Cham, and their wives. This man, fearing the destruction he foresaw from the stars, began to build a ship. Sevenety-eight years later the oceans broke forth, both from beneath and above in violent rains. All the mountains and the whole human race…

of the similarities are very striking and comments need to be made about the comparisons between the two. The command for the character Utnapishtim to build a boat in order to survive a devastating flood approaching to wipe out the city is remarkable. Also the cause of the flood is very similar, the flood was sent in judgment on man or the people due to the spread of sin. “Lay upon the sinner his sin; lay upon the transgressor his transgression “ (Tablet 11). In the book of Genesis God says to…

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In over 200 cultures, there are stories of a great ancient flood - the most familiar (in the Western community) being of Noah in the book of Genesis. As the story goes, God told Noah to build a massive wooden boat and load a male and female of every animal species into it. Then God flooded the earth by making it rain for 40 days and 40 nights, wiping away the wicked. Dealing with the flood story(-ies), there are some subjects that creationists fail to shine light upon - how was Noah and his sons…

River as a means to prevent future flooding of the Huai River Basin in the Zhumadian Prefecture of Henan Province in central China, which had been severely flooded in 1950. Construction of the dam was started in 1951 and was completed the following year. The slightly smaller Shimantan Dam on the Hong River, and many other smaller dams situated within this river system, were built for the same project. By 1954, both the Banqiao and Shimantan dams were sporting cracks due to substandard design and…

unforgettable Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of innocent lives were lost, along with homes and businesses as a result of the rushing flood waters. However, the reason for these loses was not because of the actual storm itself, in fact, it was due to the failure of the surrounding flood walls that were supposedly designed to withstand a category five storm. The water that tore the flood walls was not…

saying that He will destroy all the creatures of the air and ground, even man. So God did what He had to do. But leaving Noah’s family out of harm's way (Genesis 6:6-7). God notes that man’s sin brought God’s judgement on the world through a global flood (Egolf & Santopietro, p. 7). God instructed Noah to build a massive ark. Noah was to take his family and two animals of every kind, male and female into the ark, where they would be safe (Bollinger, p. 8). The Bible states in Genesis 6:15-16,…

Climate Change is the main issue not only one nation but also global impressing and concerning. The global average temperature increased about 0.74 oC during 100 years from 1906 to 2005 and it will be grown 2 oC more in the next 100 years if human activities remain producing greenhouse gases as the same now. (IPCC, 2007). Climate change will bring about prolong drought, frequent and intended flooding, and other natural calamities. Then the impacts from these climatic disasters will be differed…

well as the first book of the Hebrew Bible. The Epic of Gilgamesh resembles Genesis through the cleansing of earth by a great flood, the hopes of immortality by a serpent, and the similarity between Enkidu and Adam.…