Noah's Ark Flood Spurred European Farming

Reuters) ^ | Nov 17, 2007 | Maggie Fox and Catherine Evans

[onedoug]

I think a great deal of the Bible's borrowings, it's metaphor and simile, it's law and narrative contributed like no other work before or since to bring Ethical Monotheism to the mind of Man.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...."

"If I knew God I'd be Him." But I know enough from His creation that it's good, and that we should strive for goodness therein.

[wai-ming]

the collapse of the North American ice sheet, which raised global sea levels by as much as 1.4 meters, displaced tens of thousands of people in southeastern Europe

Sounds like "global warming" to me. And to think, they did it all without automobiles, industrialization, carbon offsets, and all the "evils" of big business, George W. Bush, America, and Western civilization.

[stormer]

I'm a little shaky on my Noah story, but it's my understanding that god was pissed at humans and wanted to get rid of all of them except Noah and his family. If that's the case, rather than having a big storm, why no just "blink" them into nonexistence, kind of like Jeanie?

[stormer]

I appreciate your thoughtful reply. I fail to understand how any modern human can conceivably interpret the Bible literally, yet it is done constantly.

[Bringbackthedraft]

God placed all the animals in suspended animation ................ God could have shrunk them to amoeba size. If he left them the normal size he'd need an Ark the size of Manhattan to carry all the species. My big question is who was doing all the shoveling on the Ark? It has to be a 24/7 job otherwise they'd be buried in ....., you get the idea. Besides, did he forget the Chinese who were most likely around at that time? Oh, right, that was a different other God's responsibility.

[blam]

"Aryans to North America 4400 years ago? That’s a new one to me."

Me too. They got to NA much earlier than that...possibly as early a 25,000 years ago.

[redstateconfidential]

Kennewick Man,or the Great American Indian Hoax or “Who’s on (the continent) first?”

[blam]

“Who’s on (the continent) first?”

Vintage Skulls

"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas."

"Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."

[JSDude1]

Pretty Much (The Biblical Account)! And I believe there is empirical evidence that shows so (both Geological and Archeological..)!

[JSDude1]

*Ping!

[BipolarBob]

I fail to understand how any modern human can conceivably interpret the Bible literally, yet it is done constantly.

I plead guilty. I guess shame on me, huh?

[Verginius Rufus]

The real connection between the flood and European farming is that Japheth took some farming manuals to read during the flood, while his brothers just played checkers the whole time.

[stormer]

I’m afraid so.

[stormer]

I’m sure you do believe there is empirical evidence that supports a biblical account. Unfortunately, evidence is sometimes distorted (or worse) by agenda-driven organizations in order to maintain status quo. On closer or more rigorous inspection, often times what has been accepted as foundational, is simply an artifact of what amounts to wishful thinking.

[Tanniker Smith]

And if all life was destroyed in the flood, where did the olive branch come from? Weren’t all the trees dead?

[dalight]

This timeline and “flood” correspond to the general warming period that we are experiencing now. The expansion of farming across Europe was just as likely because all of the sudden it got warmer. And, despite the folks who want our planet to be a uniform temperature, warm is almost always good, especially compared to the cold periods which have a tendency to last for 60,000 years.

[JSDude1]

I don’t base my empiracle evidence upon any give me by an Organization, I base it upon the simple facts!

[JSDude1]

All land-living animal life. Obviously fish and sea creatures were able to survive, and so are some forrests when they haven’t been submerged for long, or very deeply!

[mamelukesabre]

Well, fish wouldn’t need to be saved.