WAS NOAH AND THE FLOOD FACT OR FICTION?

 

WAS NOAH AND THE FLOOD FACT OR FICTION?

 

 

The Associated Press reported that a team of explorers uncovered what appears to be concrete evidence that human beings once inhabited an area that is now covered with water, “The Black Sea”.  They found well preserved “artifacts; carved wooden beams, wooden branches and stone tools”, lead researcher Robert Ballard said.  The team’s chief archeologist, Fredrik Hiebert, said the discovery “represents the first real evidence for occupation of the Black Sea coast prior to it’s flooding”.

The “Flood” that killed all human and animal life, except Noah and his family, and the animals on the Ark, has been hotly disputed by theologians and scientists alike.  But the strange thing is that up until 200 years ago the Flood account, in the Bible and the Tanakh (Jewish Bible), was universally accepted as being totally accurate.  What happened?  I’ll tell you what happened; two things:

1.     The publication of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”, and

2.     “The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex”.

 

These two theoretical books were introduced into our schools as fact, when they were little more than theories.

Because Charles Darwin’s theories appealed to the natural mind of man, everyone was subjected to it in our learning institutions.

For centuries the critics and skeptics of the Bible and the Torah (Tanakh) had been looking for something to hang their hats on in their arguments against the “Flood” account.  Charles Darwin gave them more than they could ever dream.  He gave them the means to gather all the unbelievers and skeptics under one huge umbrella, our learning institutions.  Charles Darwin’s theories are taught in the schools where virtually all of our citizens are exposed to it.  Even though the bible is still the number one (1) selling book in the world, it is not welcome in our public institutions of learning.

What’s even stranger is that most of us haven’t even read these two books by Charles Darwin.  But, for the first time, the public was given a scientific reason to doubt.

In 1999 Robert Ballard found indications of ancient coastline miles from the current Black Sea coast.  This discovery provides evidence that people once lived in that, now flooded, region.

Ballard, a National Geographic Society explorer in residence, said he studied shells found along the ancient coastline and found two types.  One group is an extinct type of freshwater shell, while the second is from saltwater shellfish.  We all know freshwater and saltwater don’t mix, but somehow these two, very different bodies of water traded places.  How did that happen?

The team of explorers found that “the saltwater shells date from the present back 6,500 years, while the freshwater shells all date to 7,000 years ago and older”.  “So we know that there was a sudden and dramatic change from a freshwater lake to a saltwater sea 7,000 years ago”, Ballard said.

What do you think?

 

 

Additional Reference Source:

·        http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news165.htm

·        http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngnews/blacksea.html