From: "ZenIsWhen" 


"Martin Phipps"  wrote in message
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> >From http://www.flood-myth.com
>
> General introduction
>
> There are six surviving versions of the Ancient Near East flood story
> including the Genesis version. One of these versions, written
> centuries before Genesis, is called the Epic of Atrahasis and clearly
> describes the flood as a river flood. Later story tellers changed
> "river" to "sea" and thus changed the local river
flood into an ocean
> deluge. The ambiguous word for hills was mistranslated as mountains.
> There were several such mistakes or mistranslations during
> transmission of Noah's flood story.
>
> Noah's father Lamech was king of the Sumerian city-state Shuruppak, a
> commercial center on the Euphrates River in what is now Iraq. Noah
> also became king of Shuruppak. The ark was a commercial river barge
> for hauling cargo on the Euphrates River. The river barge hauled wine,
> beer, stone, lumber, textiles, oil, and livestock which was less than
> 280 head of cattle, sheep, goats, and other domesticated animals.
> There were no kangaroos, giraffes, elephants, lions, etc. on Noah's
> cattle barge.
>
> About 2900 BC a freak thunderstorm caused the Euphrates River to rise
> 15 cubits (22 feet) and it overflowed the levees. By the time Noah
> recognized that the levees were about to be breached, it was too late
> to evacuate his livestock to highground. He therefore boarded the
> nearby river barge to ride out the storm. He had to cut the mooring
> lines to prevent barge from heeling over in the rising river. The
> runaway barge floated down the Euphrates River into the Persian Gulf
> where it grounded in an estuary at the mouth of the river. This is
> discussed and described in detail in the Noah's Ark book. Maps in the
> book show the route taken by Noah's river barge.
>
> Noah was a wealthy land owner and a merchant or trade official for the
> Shuruppak government before becoming king. The flood of 2900 BC did
> not destroy Shuruppak. There were thousands of survivors of the flood
> and Noah met some of them after the barge grounded. Some of the things
> they talked about are quoted in surviving versions of the flood story.
> Noah was no longer king and had to flee into exile. A dispute occurred
> between Noah and his sons. His family separated and he never saw his
> sons again. A map in the book shows where the sons went and the route
> they took to get there. Noah got angry with his sons after being seen
> naked. The reason why he got angry is explained in the book.
>
> The Noah's Ark book gives the exact location (within a few yards) of
> Noah's altar where he offered a sacrifice after the barge grounded. It
> is an archaeological site and has already been excavated by
> archaeologists. The book describes in detail how the ark was probably
> constructed using the technology of 2900 BC. It was much smaller and
> shaped differently than it is usually described. The numbers in
> Genesis 5 are deciphered in the book and compared with the numbers in
> the Sumerian King List. The numbers were mistranslated. Methuselah did
> not live to be 969 and Noah did not live to 950. Noah lived to be 83.
> Methuselah was 85 when he died a few months after the barge grounded.
>
> The barge did not ground on a mountain. The mountains of Ararat were
> mentioned in the original legend, but the ark did not ground there.
> How the mountains of Ararat got involved is discussed at length in the
> book. After the barge grounded, Noah, his wife, his daughter, and his
> boatman traveled to a island where they lived in exile. The island is
> a real island and is identified in chapter 5 of the Noah's Ark book.
> Noah was an interesting man and several new facts about him are
> discussed in the book
>
> Martin

OK.
I have no doubt the biblical flood did not happen. Now, do you have ANY
valid evidence that these claims are nothing more than a different fairy
tale?
"It says so in the book" is no different than "it says so in
the bible".

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