The Genesis Flood: Fact or Fiction? by Tas Walker

Author:Tas Walker [Walker, Tas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creation Book Publishers
Published: 2014-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

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IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE OF THE FLOOD?

Cultures all over the world retain a memory of the Flood in their local history. Several Native American tribes have global flood stories. One from the Choctaw tribe tells how, long ago, men became so corrupt that the Great Spirit destroyed them in a flood and only one man survived.

In Hawaii, there is the legend of Nu-u who made a great canoe with a house on it and filled it with animals. The waters came up all over the earth and killed all the people and animals that weren’t on the canoe.

Ancient Chinese writings refer to a violent catastrophe that occurred on earth and a flood that covered the highest mountains.

The Toltec Indians of ancient Mexico have a story of a few men who escaped the destruction of a great flood that covered the highest mountains. In the story told by an aboriginal group in north-west Australia, a man with his wives and a dog battle their way to safety in a canoe, as a bird flies in front of them with a leaf in its mouth.

One famous flood story was discovered in 1853, on tablets unearthed in ancient Nineveh. In this epic of Gilgamesh, the Babylonian Noah is called Utnapishtim. The epic has many similarities with the story of Noah’s Flood, which is why many scholars think the Genesis account was derived from it. But the Gilgamesh epic is typical of mythology, with magical beings, multiple deities, embellishment and an implausible cubical ark, whereas the Genesis account reads like real history. Both stories are probably referring to the same real event. Genesis preserves the original record, while the Gilgamesh Epic is a distorted version.

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