Jeremy Francis John Bowen (b. 1960) is a Welsh journalist
who was born in Cardiff. His
presentation was very slanted against the truth of Noah's Flood.[1] He should take a trip to the Ark Encounter in
Kentucky (Ozzy did).
Bowen's story mentions the ocean floor (@ 10:40):
The ocean floor in many places is covered with Manganese (Mn) nodules which are somewhat like pearls and grow from small bits of basalt, pumice, shark teeth or clay. The measured growth rates of these nodules indicate an age of only thousands of years.[2] So, the oceans as we see them today are young.
Bowen seems to completely overlook the fact that the Lord
brought the animals to Noah via instinct, Providence or direct miracle (cf.
Gen. 6:20; 7:8,9,15).
https://www.icr.org/article/how-did-noah-gather-animals
The program claims that 30M species must have been on the
Ark. The *kinds* of animals and plants
we find on Earth is a much broader category than Species and is often at the
Family level. I tag the Genesis Kinds
(baramin) as Essential Types of Life (ETL's).
My book Biological Essentialism
takes on that very subject.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w?ean=9781668541234
With this understanding that Kinds (ETL's) are not always
equivalent to "specie," how many animals were on Noah's Ark? Some estimates range from 6,744 animals to
16K.
https://arkencounter.com/animals/how-many/
https://answersingenesis.org/noahs-ark/species-and-kinds-and-the-ark/
Noah's Ark - The Real Story claims that there is not
enough water to cover the planet. In
contrast, let's ask Marilyn vos Savant (born in St. Louis) who has been the
Guinness Book of World Records record holder for the highest IQ. She said that, "If the Earth were
smooth, all the land would be covered with seawater to a depth of about 8,810
feet ..." In addition, Mars may
have had a global deluge to a depth of a kilometer.[3]
David V. Jebson lists seven key reasons why the Deluge
must have been universal:
https://www.biblicalcreation.org.uk/biblical_studies/bcs044.html
A number of scholars have gone deep in their research on
Flood Legends.
My copy of Folklore in the Old Testament by Sir James
Frazer (d. 1941) is over 100 years old!
It has 65 pages of Flood traditions.
He admits that academics of the past concluded from this historical
evidence,
... that such a catastrophe actually occurred, that we
have a full and authentic record of it in the Book of Genesis, and that the
many legends of a great flood which we find scattered so widely among mankind
embody the more or less imperfect, confused, and distorted reminiscences of
that tremendous cataclysm.[4]
Explorer and Painter George Catlin (d. 1872) shared this bold revelation:
The calamity which their [Flood] traditions say once
befell them, destroying the whole human race, excepting one man, who landed
from his canoe on a high mountain in the West. This tradition, however, was not
peculiar to the Mandan tribe, for amongst one hundred and twenty different tribes
that I have visited in North and South and Central America, not a tribe exists
that has not related to me distinct or vague traditions of such a calamity, in
which one, or three, or eight persons were saved above the waters.
https://creationism.org/books/FrazerFolkloreOT/FrazerFolkloreOT_0.htm
Wilhelm Wundt (d. 1920), who grew up as a Lutheran, in
his Elements Of Folk Psychology
claimed that Egypt has no Flood Legend (p. 392):
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44138/44138-h/44138-h.htm#THE_ART_OF_THE_HEROIC_AGE
In truth, he was sadly mistaken and the saga continues
... deluge sagas (Sintflutsagen):
One "flood myth" in Egyptian mythology involves
the god Ra and his daughter Sekhmet. Ra
sent Sekhmet to destroy part of humanity for their disrespect and
unfaithfulness which resulted in the gods overturning wine jugs to simulate a
great flood of blood, so that by getting her drunk on the wine and causing her
to pass out her slaughter would cease. This
is commemorated in a wine drinking festival during the annual Nile flood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths
What do we make of all these Flood traditions? Dr. Johannes Riem in Die Sintflut in Sage und Wissenschaft (The Deluge in Legend and Science) provided this analysis:
Among all traditions there is none so general, so
widespread on earth, and so apt to show what may develop from the same material
according to the varying spiritual character of a people as the Flood
tradition. Lengthy and thorough discussions with Dr. Kunike have convinced me
of the evident correctness of his position that the fact of the Deluge is
granted because at the basis of all myths, particularly nature myths, there is
a real fact, but that during a subsequent period the material was given its present
mythical character and form.[5]
Francis Collins seems to be oblivious to the overwhelming
evidence for the Global Flood (2 Pet. 3:5, see below ↓). You may have seen Francis Collins rocking out
@ a recent protest in DC:
Collins founded #BioLogos and in 2017 IVP put out a
dialog/discussion style book titled Old-Earth
or Evolutionary Creation? ... that is #TheoEvo
Hugh Ross & his #cru provide the other side of the
coin in this "debate." Ross began his career at the age of 7 when he
went to the Library to discover why stars are hot! ✨✳✺
https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakers/400232/Hugh-Ross
Hugh Ross is not to be confused with the Scottish actor (Patriot Games) with the same name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ross_(actor)
It's a real tragedy that Old-Earth or Evolutionary Creation? gives so little attention to
the Biblical, Historical and scientific evidence for the Global Flood.
https://www.amazon.com/Global-Flood-Unlocking-Hardcover-Institute/dp/1935587129
The bibliography does include Henry Morris' The Long War Against God: The History and Impact of the Creation/Evolution Conflict (Fwd. by David Jeremiah!). It also has Kurt Wise' fine defense of the reality of Noah's Flood: Faith Form & Time.
Ovid's version of the Flood (@ 5:23):
The Babylonian account of Atrahasis (Noah) states that
the Ark was a kuphar (kuffah, quffa), which was a large round boat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuphar#Biblical_significance
Such a vessel would not be seaworthy. This shows that superiority of the Genesis
record compared to the Flood Legends of the Ancient Near East.
The Epic of Gilgamesh states that the Ark was a
cube!
I want you to recall both the predictions foretold by the
holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles. Above all, understand this: In the last days
blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges and saying,
“Where is his promised return? For ever
since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the
beginning of creation.” For they
deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long
ago and the earth was formed out of water and by means of water. Through these things the world existing at
that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water. But by the same word the present heavens and
earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and
destruction of the ungodly. (2 Peter 3:2-7, NET)
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast
them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved
for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight
people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the
ungodly; ... then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations
and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment. (2 Pet.
2:4,5,9)
Bibliography on Noah's Flood:
From the Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR):
https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/collections/noah-and-genesis-flood/
Noah & the Ark (Chabad.org):
Two items from Britanninca (Noah & Flood Myths):
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Noah
https://www.britannica.com/topic/flood-myth
my site: https://totalyouth.us/
What do you know about the Diluvial Theory?
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-90-481-2642-2_605
Review of Riem's book (in German):
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/OAQAY6AXVN3GTRNCRPORV3FIY37YR4NG
** kudos - graphic source:
https://www.craiyon.com/image/_G03RLJMQ_S2zDp3HlWcnw
Notes:
1) "Demolishing a Straw Ark: the BBC's Noah's Ark
Fiasco" by Paul Garner, Origins
40, Feb. 2005, pp. 16,17.
2) Is a Young Earth
Possible? by Jay Hall (iCAT: Institute for Catastrophism & Tectonics,
Big Spring, TX, 2019), pp. 66-68.
https://www.amazon.com/Young-Earth-Possible-Science-Youthful/dp/1088860788/
3) YES - Young Earth Science by Jay Hall (IDEAS: Intelligent Defense of Evolution Alternatives through Science, Big Spring, TX, 2014), pp.
96,97.
https://www.amazon.com/YES-WorldView-Fallacies-Darwinism-2014-11-14/dp/B01K3RF10I
4) Folklore in the Old Testament by James Frazer (Tudor
Pub., NYC, 1923, abridged ed.), p. 135.
https://www.amazon.com/Folklore-Old-Testament-Comparative-Religion/dp/0517672510
Here is the unabridged version of Volume 1, see Chapter
IV: The Great Flood, p. 104:
https://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/e-books/frazer/folk-lore_in_the_ot_frazer_vol01.pdf
5) quoted in The
Flood by Alfred Rehwinkel (Concordia, St. Louis, 1951), p. 129.
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