Monday, September 12, 2022

Even BBC Can't Ignore Evidence of Noah's Flood

 In this article by the BBC they are questioning how many people can planet earth support?  Later this year we expected to top 8 billion.  Just 28 years ago the population was 5.5 billion.  Of course BBC is super liberal and has a humanist world view.  They talk about how 75,000 years ago a big volcano erupted and caused the population of humans and animals to crash.  They talk about how mankind has ruined all the pristine places on planet earth...which is true, but hardly a biblical worldview.

But the following paragraphs are what caught my eye in the BBC article.

But four in particular were special. They contained missing sections of a story found in fragments on separate tablets scattered across Mesopotamia, which is still intriguing historians today.  

"Twelve hundred years had not yet passed [since the creation of mankind], When the land extended and the people multiplied…" goes the Atra-hasis – the epic poem stamped into the clay by an anonymous scribe around the 17th Century BC. It's the Mesopotamian version of the ubiquitous Great Flood story, found in countless forms in cultures across the globe, in which civilisation is destroyed by a deity – and it might contain one of the earliest mentions of overpopulation in the historical record.

In the ancient tale, the gods become annoyed at all the "noise" and "uproar" created by the human hordes, as well as the "lands bellowing like a bull" due to the stresses they were put under by our species' demands. The god of the atmosphere, Enlil, decides to unleash a few hazards to bring numbers down again – contriving plagues, famines and droughts to arrive at regular intervals of 1,200 years. Fortunately, another god saves the day – this time. But then Enlil plans a great flood instead... and the classic tale of boat-building ensues.  

Here;  How many people can Earth handle? - BBC Future

Pretty amazing!  A flood story found everywhere across the globe!

Remember that Jesus even referred to Noah, and Jesus is God.  So we can take it to the bank that there was a great flood that killed everyone except Noah and the 7 other humans on board the ark.


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