Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

Flood Legends – Massive Coincidence or Distorted History? You’ve heard of Noah and the ark, but did you know that similar tales are told the world over? Is this just a coincidence, or is it something more? By Earl Hunsinger To many the account of Noah’s ark is simply a child’s story, a fairy tale told at bedtime. They don’t actively argue against the truthfulness of the account, but they’re skeptical, or embarrassed to admit that they secretly wonder if it might be true. Others are openly hostile toward any discussion of the subject, simply because the account is contained in the Bible. They feel that we live in an age of enlightenment, where science has replaced religion and anything even remotely connected with it. Briefly, the account as stated in the Bible says that God warned the man Noah that he was going to bring a flood to the earth. Noah constructed a large vessel, or ark, to save his family and representatives of all the animal species. The ark had a single door, wh...

by Damien F. Mackey I. Introductory Section For a long time my view of Noah’s Flood was shaped by books like The Genesis Flood, that classic by Whitcomb and Morris, and other like-minded writings on the subject. When the full implications of these writings hit me - of our terrestrial globe being entirely overflown by water, with a massive boat astride it all keeping safe the last eight humans, plus pairs of every known species of animal - I was like a man in a daze: overwhelmed. What an incredible image! Nothing in human experience seemed comparable to it. Later also I became intensely interested in the search for Noah’s Ark, and was quite convinced that a boat-shaped object that had been found on so-called ‘Mount Ararat’ or Agri Dagh (Ağri Daği) in (south) eastern Turkey was indeed Noah’s Ark. In those days I was often in touch with one of the key Ark-eologists (as they have been called), Dr. Allen Roberts, who was then making news with his visits to the Agri Dagh site and his colourf...