Originally Posted by Rylan1
I don't know when it was, however I know it wasn't 3000BC. The Egyptians were in their hay-day during that time. If there was indeed a Great Flood during tat time, we would have very clear written evidence of the event and the date of its occurance.
ok, lets have some dating lessons:
Anno Mundi (AM, "in the year of the world") refers to a Calendar era counting from the creation of the world. An example is the Hebrew calendar which considers creation to have taken place in the year 3760 BC. This is based upon the Seder Olam Rabbah of Rabbi Yose Ben Halafta in the second century AD. The year 2007 AD, before Rosh Hashanah, is 5767 AM in the Hebrew calendar.
AM was also used by early Christian chronographers. The medieval historian Bede dated creation to 18 March 3952 BC. The Irish Annals of the Four Masters gives the year 5194 BC
The Aetos Kosmou is the corresponding concept in the Byzantine calendar, which dates creation to 1 September 5509 BC.
James Ussher (1654) dated creation to 23 October 4004 BC.
Related to this is the Anno Lucis of Freemasonry, which adds 4000 years to the AD date; and the Julian day number, counting the days that have elapsed since noon Greenwich Mean Time (UT or TT) on Monday, January 1, 4713 BC.
The Ark is dated at 1655 AM, which depending on what calendar you use, would run in either the 1600's bc, or 3k bc as i previously stated.
SO... with our continents already split, and all human and animal life dead at either 3k bc or 1600bc, how did america's get populated? there's not a chance that all the animals walked from africa, to the bering straits, and down to south america. Where did the Chinese race come from? the Indian nations? remember, only Noah and 3 sons and their wives remained alive and they were all Hebrew.
lets face it. back when the bible was written, it may have all made sense. heck, even the church still thought the world was flat when columbus was around. we've had all our technological advances because we're not as close minded as we were, but as to why we're not more advanced.... humans are as a general rule the stupidest thing on the earth.