A Bunch Of Buildings Older Than Noah's Flood

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Noah's flood is dated at about 4,359 years ago, or about 2348 B.C. Here are several buildings dated much earlier that show no indication of a flood or flood damage. Shar-e Sukhteh in Iran would have been in close proximity to where the ark was supposedly built. They are all over the world, showing no indication of a flood during the period described Biblically and by the Creationists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in_the_world#By_age



          Shar-e Sukhtah, 3200 BCE

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Biblical waterproofing..

[stromboli]

Biblical waterproofing..

Does that come in a can or a bucket?   

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Does that come in a can or a bucket?   

Angels cry and as it lands it waterproofs things.. I thought everyone knew that.

[kilodelta]

The Devil put those there to test our Faith.

[stromboli]

Angel's Landing. Formed by wind and water erosion. 

                 

[Munch]

Oh no, its not in the bible, so therefore ghawd put those buildings there after the floor ended, for no significant reason.

[PickelledEggs]

The flood was designed by god to wipe out life on earth except a few animals and people not to damage buildings and land masses. DUUUUHHHH, stromboli. Come on. You can do better than that

[Solitary]

You atheists are so stupid!

"In the early chapters of Genesis, people live 800 years, 700 years, 900 years," said Rabbi Burt Visotzky, a professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. "Those are mythic numbers, those are way too big. We don't quite know what to do with that. So sometimes those large numbers, I think, also serve to reinforce the mystery of the text."

Some of the details of the Noah story seem mythical, so many biblical scholars believe the story of Noah and the Ark was inspired by the legendary flood stories of nearby Mesopotamia, in particular "The Epic of Gilgamesh." These ancient narratives were already being passed down from one generation to the next, centuries before Noah appeared in the Bible.

"The earlier Mesopotamian stories are very similar where the gods are sending a flood to wipe out humans," said biblical archaeologist Eric Cline. "There's one man they choose to survive. He builds a boat and brings on animals and lands on a mountain and lives happily ever after? I would argue that it's the same story."

Catastrophic events of this kind are not unique to the Bible. Some contemporary examples include the 2004 tsunami that wiped out villages on the coasts of 11 countries surrounding the Indian Ocean. There was also Hurricane Katrina, described as the worst hurricane in United States history.

Scholars aren't sure if the biblical flood was larger or smaller than these modern day disasters, but they do think the experiences of people in ancient times were similar to our own.

"If you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you want a scientific explanation why this has happened," said Karen Armstrong, author of "A History of God." "But you also need to something that will help you to assuage your grief and anguish and rage. And it is here that myth helps us through that."

Regardless of whether the details of the Noah story are historically accurate, Armstrong believes this story and all the Biblical stories are telling us "about our predicament in the world now."

Back in the Black Sea, Ballard said he is aware that not everyone agrees with his conclusions about the time and size of the flood, but he's confident he's on the path to finding something from the biblical period.

"We started finding structures that looked like they were man-made structures," Ballard said. "That's where we are focusing our attention right now."

At first Ballard's team found piles of ancient pottery, but then they made an even more important discovery. Last year, Ballard discovered a vessel and one of its crew members in the Black Sea.

"That is a perfectly preserved ancient shipwreck in all its wood, looks like a lumber yard," he said. "But if you look closely, you will see the femur bone and actually a molar."

The shipwreck was in surprisingly good condition, preserved because the Black Sea has almost no oxygen in it, which slows down the process of decay, but it does not date back as far as the story of Noah.

"The oldest shipwreck that we have discovered so far of that area is around 500 BC, classical period," Ballard said. "But the question is you just keep searching. It's a matter of statistics."

Still, Ballard said the find gives him hope that he will discover something older "because there, in fact, the deep sea is the largest museum on Earth," he said.

Ballard does not think he will ever find Noah's Ark, but he does think he may find evidence of a people whose entire world was washed away about 7,000 years ago. He and his team said they plan to return to Turkey next summer.

"It's foolish to think you will ever find a ship," Ballard said, referring to the Ark. "But can you find people who were living? Can you find their villages that are underwater now? And the answer is yes."

Here is proof that the Great Flood happened, pictures don't lie! 

[kilodelta]

We know gawd did it because the flood was the perfect solution to people sinning...

[Munch]

Wait.. so they are saying because there are people who are living today, that means the flood did happen as proof..

[stromboli]

And made from Gopherwood, like Ken Ham's boat. Apparently Gopherwood is weldable.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ya'll know that there carbonated dating ain't no way reliable.

[aitm]

Ya'll forgetting that one year is like a thousand to gawd so dem  forty days and such could have been anywhere from 40 minutes to 40bagazillion years...ain't gawd great?

[Jason78]

Angels cry and as it lands it waterproofs things.. I thought everyone knew that.

And there was me thinking that it had something to do with tooth fairy dust :)