The Deluge and the Ark Seekers
Historical Blindness
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The Flood and the Epic of Gilgamesh
george smith thought he had discovered proof of the literal truth of the bible and evidence against the geologic time scale and evolutionary theory. Unfortunately, for proponents of this claim, the math doesn't precisely line up. The oldest surviving version of the gilgamesh poem is dated to around two thousand b c e. But it purports to tell the story of a sumerian king who, based on surviving sumerian sources like the sumerianKing list, likely lived around 27 hundredb c e. Those who believe in the literal interpretation of the bible, typically place creation at around four thousand four b c e, and the flood at around 23 forty eight b c e
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