existing around the period of the Flood ( ~ 2500 BC, give or take), such as the Sumerians of the Babylonian region, and the Egyptians, which talk about dynasties, events, etc, but strangely make no mention of any world-destroying Flood happening right in the middle of their time lines.
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When these writings actually took place is important. “Around 2500BC” actually means these writings took place before the flood, since the Bible record nails down the flood occurring at 2344 BC, so of course those writings would make no mention of the flood.
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1) so in 156 years, the people on the Ark, repopulated the entire world?
in 2500BC, there were already large cities, across vast geographical areas.
2) you disagree with the accepted datings,
by generations of historians, achaeologists, geologists, etc.,
who’s work ALL confirms each others, independently?
3) Luther himself, refused to believe the earth orbited the Sun. does that make all his other beliefs false? no.
He was correct, to condemn the corruption in the Church.
...but, the earth DOES orbit the Sun. and there is vast, cross-discipline evidence, that humans lived continuously, without a world-wide flood, in many places in the world, around 2344BC.
4) my faith in Jesus, doesn’t require me, to take the OLD Testament literally. and many top scientists, are also devout Christians, who revere the Bible, as a holy book.
5) frankly, i think organizations like “creation research institute”, are a complete waste. (WHY such fanatic emphasis?) ...if they’d spend a tenth as much effort, on spreading the New Testament, i’d applaud them!
Depending who you speak to and who calculates it, some have the great flood as early as 3300 BC.
Since we’ve double the planet’s population in 40 years, you could use that as “guide” to figure the planet “could” double the population every 40 years. In 800 years you could go from 8 people to about 8.3 million people. If you doubled every 20 years (totally possible) you end up with a number in the trillions. 800 years can be a VERY long time in population growth!
Ever wondered how we have made great technological strides in the past 500 years or so and these civilizations that were around for, supposedly, thousands of years stayed in the stone age? Maybe, just maybe, they weren’t around for as long as we thought...
2500BC is BEFORE 2344 BC, the Biblical time of the flood.
Well put, particularly #5 — gosh, I wonder what their motivation could possibly be?