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Bishop Ussher reviewed the Genealogy of the Bible
and concluded that the six days of creation
occurred about 4,000 BC. On this basis the Flood and a subsequent Ice Age was only about 4-
4,500 years ago. If this is true, wouldn't we expect to find references to the ice age and flood within
the records of ancient civilisations?
When the records are reviewed, many different aspects of the Biblical account are found within a large
and widespread number of Flood Legends.
Another interesting observation is the Chinese symbol for a large boat (see right), which is made up of
the characters for vessel, eight and people, corresponding exactly to the size of Noah’s family on the
Ark (Noah, his three sons, and their wives).
The fact that there are hundreds of references to the Flood
across many civilisations and tribes
provides a lot of evidence to support the Flood as an historical event. The actual timing then becomes
more of a secondary issue. Most “ancient civilisations” are dated to circa 3,000 BC and a “literal
creationist” viewpoint would place the Flood at circa 2,500 – 2,300 BC. Clearly these dates are
inconsistent, so at least one of the dates must be wrong. The following articles and discussions
consider some of these issues – in particular the article on Moses (Egyptian chronology) which
shows how research on Egypt by non-Christians from the last couple of decades has indicated that
the “traditional” Egyptian timeline may be 700 years or more too long …
Part of the reason for the apparent discrepancies in time may be due to the flaws with
carbon dating.
In addition, some chronologies give the impression that they are sequential, when some of the list
actually runs parallel. For example, four Egyptian kings ruling different areas of Egypt at the same
time, rather than one after the other.
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