The Worldwide Flood of Noah is Old News: Newspaper Articles Confirming Evidence and Proofs of the Flood Before Darwinian Censorship

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Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 83, Number 130, 21 July 1892 California Digital Newspaper Collection
Prehistoric Civilization.

In Egypt, writing and literature came from before the time of Abraham. In like manner we have no monumental evidence when the Acadian people of Babylonia were destitute of writing and science, and know that there were learned scribes in all the cities of Canaan, and that the Phoenicians and Southern Arabians knew their alphabet ages before Moses, while even the Greeks seem to have known alphabetic writing long before the Mosaic age.

Those men, in short, were the descendants of the Noachian Deluge, and therefore civilized from the first; and though we have no certain evidence of letters before the flood, except the-statement of the author of the Babylonian deluge tablets, that Noah had written archives at Sippara before going into the ark, yet it is quite certain that men who could build Noah's ship are not unworthy ancestors of the Phoenician seamen who probably launched their barks on the Mediterranean before the death of Noah himself.

Thus, whatever value we may attach to the record in Genesis, one cannot refuse to admit that it is thoroughly consistent with itself and with the testimony of the oldest monuments of Asia and Africa, as it is also with the evidence of the geological changes of the Pleistocene and early modern epoch.

In like manner the Egyptian inscriptions of the conquests of Thobes gives us a pre-Mosaic record of Palestinian geography corresponding with that of the Hebrew conquest, and the pictures of sieges coincide with the excavations of Petrie at Lachish in restoring those Canaanite towns, "walled up to heaven," which excited the fear of the Israelites. Neither can we scoff at the illiteracy of men who were carrying on diplomatic correspondence in written dispatches before Genesis was compiled.

—"'Prehistoric Times in Egypt and Palestine," in North American Review,
Press Democrat, Number 243, 25 April 1889 California Digital Newspaper Collection
Ancient America.

Dr. le Plongeon, the Central American explorer, declares that he has indisputable evidence that the history of our country, North America, began 110 centuries ago. In the Mayas of Yucatan he finds all that remains of the early inhabitants, and evidence, including manuscripts, that the language is the oldest living tongue in the world.

The history of the creation, the deluge and other great epochs are before the reader of this ancient tongue. In many respects it is identical with the ancient Persian, and the Sanskrit roots frequently appear. The story of Atlantis is also found.
The doctor’s collection embraces seventy-seven stereoscopic plates and twenty terracotta models, illustrating houses, ruins, palaces, observatories and other archaeological remains of great interest.

Although the keystone arch is not found in these ruins, the buildings are several of them domed over. The frescoes show art superior to that of ancient Egypt There are 300 casts of the inscriptions also in the collection and plans of the royal buildings at Chi-chen-Itza. One of the royal residences was found to contain 120 rooms. These collections, it is hoped, will find a permanent place in some of our museums.

—Utica Herald.
THE FLOOD OF NOAH.
Amador Ledger, 3 November 1905
Geology Proves the Foundation of the Biblical Account.

There are Biblical doubters who scoff at the idea that there ever was a great flood, yet the testimony of the geologists, to say nothing of Ignatius Donnelly's theory of the submerged continent of Atlantis, proves that at one time the entire earth's surface was covered with water.

Professor Wright of Oberlin, who has made geology a life study, brings us new light upon the subject. In writing on the subject of the "Contributions of Geology to the Creditability of the Flood" he states that the level of the land changes constantly. The highest mountains were once below the sea-level, as is proven by the finding of sea-shells on the summits of the highest peaks.

All of Central Asia was once covered by water and is now drying up. In fact, the drying out process has been going, on for thousands of years. The Turkestan and Siberian low-lands were once submerged, while evidence is shown that the Desert of Gobi was once a body of water equal to the Mediterranean in size and depth. – 
The valley of the Jordan in ages back was covered with water to a depth of from 1,000 to 1,400 feet, while changes of level and climate in Asia seem to prove that the Deluge once passed over the entire country.

Sotoyome Scimitar, Number 7, 16 October 1925
The Noachic Flood

One of our skeptical scientists recently spoke of the Bible as “a book of myths.” Evidences are multiplying almost every day to show that even what have been regarded as the most improbable statements of the Scriptures have a foundation in fact.
The Noachic deluge is perhaps the most improbable event recorded in the Old Testament.

Remarkable as is the narrative, science itself is showing a tendency to corroborate it. Archaeology (the science of antiquity) is throwing light upon the subject. For a long time skeptics asserted that the Hebrews borrowed the account of the deluge from the Babylonians, but the most recent discoveries of Babylonian tablets prove that they and the Hebrews, and probably the Egyptians, all got the tradition of a flood of waters, which destroyed the entire race saving one family, from a source which preceded the invention of writing.

If no such event had occurred, how could such a tradition have originated? And how could it have come down in much the same form through the patriarchal age to widely separated nations?

The science of geology is gradually approaching a confirmation of the truth of the Bible narrative. Guess, Howorth, Price, and other prominent geologists assert that the evidences of a world-wide deluge are as plainly written on the rocks as on the pages of the Bible.

They base their assertions — First, on the fact revealed by geology that a summer climate once prevailed over all the earth, caused by ocean currents like the gulf stream modifying the general temperature. 

“For those acquainted with the geological facts,” says Price, “there is no need of presenting evidence in favor of the earth having once enjoyed an ideal climate from pole to pole.” One sufficient proof is found in the fossil remains of tropical animals and plants which are discovered in abundance in what are now the arctic regions. Secondly, on a sudden change brought about in this condition resulting in the varied climate now prevailing.

Dana, the greatest American geologist of his day, says the climate of the north “became suddenly extreme, as of a single winter’s night.” No other cause can be assigned for this than a world-wide change in the conditions which had caused a uniform temperature. Only a tremendous upheaval of the waters, changing the ocean currents so that the arctic regions were left extremely cold and the tropical regions extremely warm, will explain such a sudden transmutation that animals were immediately frozen to death.

To this day the carcasses of mammoths and elephants are found in Siberia, the flesh untainted, and eaten by men as well as dogs, these carcasses having been covered with water which froze into a solid mass.

It is interesting to know that petroleum is obtained from underground reservoirs in which at some time great numbers of fish or animals were imprisoned by some disturbance of water or land, the decomposed remains forming the oil we now use.
Our own State furnishes evidence of this. “

At Lompoc, California, and in many similar formations, the petroleum in the rocks very evidently came from the millions of fish there entombed; while at Hollywood, near Los Angeles, it is equally evident that the immense quantities of mammalian remains in the strata are perhaps the chief source of the organic materials forming the oils.

In the latter place, the mammals were evidently piled together in the strata like driftwood.”

— Price’* New Geology.

Scientists generally agree that just preceding or within the human period some great catastrophe occurred bringing about climatic and other changes on the earth. They attribute the radical variations to what they call the Glacial Age.

Huge glaciers, they say, were formed in the arctic regions and advanced southward until nearly the half of North America was covered with ice, transforming the earth’s surface, and then receding until present normal conditions were created.
This is less credible than a general deluge, for it is impossible to account for the origin of such immense glaciers if a warm climate previously prevailed in the extreme north.

Furthermore, the scoring of rocks, said to have been done by these masses of ice, are not confined to the lowlands, but are to be found on top of high mountains. Whatever advance the glaciers may have made, they could not climb mountains.
And further still, science now asserts that bodies of ice cannot go a greater height than 1600 feet, the pressure of the mass causing it to melt at the bottom, while the glacial marks (as they are called) are found at a height of more than a mile.

And there are still other evidences going to show that the glacial age is only an invented theory. The objections to the Scriptural account of the deluge are not as serious as they seem to be. One of these, as stated by several writers, is that “all the water in the world, together with all the vapor if reduced to water, would not cover the whole earth to the height of Mt. Ararat.”

What is now known as Mt. Ararat is seventeen thousand feet in height: but the Genesis account does not say that the ark rested on this mountain, but on one “of the mountains of Ararat,” most of the group being small.

It would not have required a flood of the height of the loftiest mountains to destroy all life on earth at that time, and one sufficient to do this might have resulted from such a tremendous disturbance as is implied in “the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven opened.”

Science, as well as the Scriptures, attests such a disturbance, and some geologists say it sent a tidal wave around the world “about six miles in height at the equator,” or twice the height of Mt. Ararat. It is now known that there is twice as much water as dry land in the world, so that even this extraordinary conjecture was possible of fulfillment. Another objection is that if only a single family survived it would not account for the wide variety of races and languages. But it was a tribe rather than a family that were in the ark, and races and languages are no more easily accounted for by putting mankind further back in time.

Still another objection is that it was impossible to build a vessel large enough to withstand such a flood as is described, or to hold a sufficient number of animals -to replenish the earth. A hundred years should have been long enough to construct a vessel which would resist the violence of the waters, and, as naturalists have asserted, four hundred species of animals were all that were necessary to account for the many varieties now in existence.
There are other minor objections, but they are not worth noting.

Healdsburg, October 10, 1926.
W. MASLIN FRYSINGER.
Coronado Eagle and Journal, Number 11, 12 March 1970
Is it a chunk of Noah's Ark!

RIVERSIDE—A piece of perhaps the world's largest and oldest Jigsaw puzzle—Noah's Ark—is in ' the possession of a biochemist at the University of California. Riverside. Dr. Franklin Turrell, UCR professor of biochemistry whose hobby is the study and collection of ancient wood, isn’t absolutely sure the wood he has is in fact part of the Ark, but most of the evidence seems to point in that direction.

The wood was found on the west side of Mount Ararat, above the timberline, near the Soviet Turkish border, where historical and Biblical sources say the Ark landed after the great flood. 4-5,000 YEARS old.. The wood has been dated by two different research laboratories, in Madrid and Paris. Both reports show it to be between 4,000 and 5,000 years old. • The two laboratories found it to be oak. Noah’s Ark, according to the Bible, was built of gopher’s wood, which scientists say is an archaic term for oak.

This year, in an effort to finally uncover the Ark, an expedition called Search Foundation Inc. of Washington, D.C., plans to haul heavy equipment up the mountain in an attempt to remove ice and debris from the surface of a lake on Mt. Ararat, which experts say, harbors the famous Ark. Several expeditions have made an attempt in the past to find and uncover the Ark, but none thus far has had complete success.

Some, like the ones led by Frenchman Fernand Navarra, have found pieces of wood which have been dated as being as old as the Ark. The wood Dr. Turrell owns, in fact, was sent to him by Navarra after one of the Frenchman’s first expeditions in the late 1950s. The searchers that will go to Mt. Ararat this year will include Navarra, who has made the uncovering of the Ark his life’s work.

GOOD YEAR Dr. Turrell, who has made a study of the history of the Ark, says that this is a gooch since the ice on Mt. Ararat melts on an average of every 20 years and this is the 20th year since the last melting.
Because of the almost perennial ice and perforated quality of the rock on the mountain, Dr. Turrell explains, there is nd year for a searo vegetation there.

This fact lends credence to the belief that whatever wood is found above the ice level had to have been transported rather than grown there. Dr. Turrell says there are more than 600 different writings, legends or stories about the Biblical deluge and the Ark. Also, an historical scholar named Immanuel Velikovski has made a detailed study and synchronization of ancient calendars and has found that some sort of a great flood did occur worldwide 4,000 years ago.

Daily Alta California, Volume 38, Number 12712, 1 February 1885
BABYLONIAN LIBRARIES.

What the Authors of the Cuneiform Writings Used to Read. (London Times.)
The resurrection of palaces and temples which resulted from the explorations in Chaldea by Mr. Hormuzd Bassam was indeed an astonishing surprise to archaeologists.

From beneath the huge gravemounds, where the debris accumulated during many centuries had attained an almost rocklike solidity, the explorer has brought to view the dwellings of kings and the shrines of gods, whose foundations were laid in the childhood of the world.

Startling as these discoveries were, their true value and importance could not be estimated until the mass of inscribed records which the spade of the explorer had rescued from the dark chambers had been deciphered and arranged.
The work of examining and classifying the thousands of inscribed tablets which Mr. Rassam recovered from the records chamber of the great Sun Temple of Sippara (Aboo Hubba) and the library of the great temple of Nebo at Borsippa (Birs Nimrud), together with the large number of commercial and legal tablets from Babylon, was a slow and tedious task.

It indeed reflects great credit upon the Assyriologists attached to the Department of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum, that in so short a space of time they have been able to master the general contents of this large mass of literature.
The Babylonians, like the Chinese, were an essentially literary people, and every event in life found its record on the clay tablets. The caste of the scribes was the most honored and ancient in their land, their ancestor being the seaborn Osnnes, called Musarros, " the scribe,'' who rose from the sea to teach men the elements of civilization. Xisuthras, the Noah of Chaldean tradition, was the writer of the first "Book of Origins," which he deposited in the temple of the Sun God at Sippara, to be recovered after the deluge, and thus continues unbroken the roll of Chaldean history.

If any proof were needed of the literary character of the Babylonians, it is found in the tens of thousands of inscribed tablets now stored in the cases of the Assyrian department of the British Museum.

The discoveries made during the last half century, which have restored to us the history of Western Asia, have all been tending to carry us further and further back into remote antiquity, while each year fresh finds have been filling up the lacunae in the roll of history thus open before us. The recovered literature is by no means solely historical, being as varied in character as that of the present day; embracing in its large area tablet books on religion, botany, zoology, astronomy, and even works of fiction, fables, and stories, as well as a most important class of philological works, grammars, lexicons, and biblical handbooks, relating not only to the languages of Babylonia, but to those of surrounding lands.

The area of cuneiform research has been very much enlarged by these discoveries of Mr. Rassam, and in a volume just issued, " A Selection of Assyrian and Babylonian Inscriptions," edited by Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, is published a cylinder inscription of Antiochus the Great, dated in the forty-third year of the era of the Seleucidae (B. C. 278-79), while there are tablets in the collection not sufficiently interesting for publication, dated in the two hundred and eighteenth year of that era, or as late as B. C. 29.

These tablets prove that the Aramean alphabet did not gain that popularity which some have assigned to it, and the fact that among the thousands of contract tablets in the collection only a very few have the Aramean dockets indicates that in Babylon certainly it was not the script of trade.

These tablets furnish us with evidence as to the late employment of the cuneiform writing, and evidence as to the very early period in which a literature was developed in Babylonia is afforded by the fine cylinder of Nabonidus, found in the record chest of the great temple at Sippara.

This splendid cylinder, containing about 170 lines in most perfect preservation, may be considered the most important inscription published in this volume. In this text the King states that while restoring the temple of the Sun God he came upon the foundation record placed there by Narim-Sin, the son of Sargon, 8,200 years before his time— that is, in B. C. 3750. Among the monuments found by Mr. Rassam in the ruins of this temple was a small ovoid of pink and white marble, which bore the inscription of Sargon, the father of the King, reading : " I, Sargon, the King of Agade to the Sun God in Sippara, I have dedicated."

This surprising and important date does not rest upon the evidence of one text alone, for recently a second, though mutilated, copy of the cylinder was offered for sale at the Museum, in which the same date is given. So there is little reason to doubt its accuracy. The importance of the record is increased by the fact that this inscription of Sargon is written in Semitic Babylonian, in phonetic characters, thus proving that only prior to this date the cuneiform writing must have been in use and passed through stages of growth developments and adaptation which could not have taken place in a few centuries.

From this new volume we have therefore evidence of the most conclusive character of the antiquity of Babylonian libraries" and the varied nature of their contents. Of the latter we have proof in this volume, which contains lists of plants, foods, insects ; in the latter we find the bee and the wasp mentioned. Among the inscriptions of historical importance here published, the most valuable are the tablets of Nebuchadnezzar I (B. C. 1120), and Nabubaliddina (B. C. 850), from Aboo Hubba.
The former of these is the charter of freedom granted to the Kassite or North Elamite city of Bit Karziyabku by the Babylonian King in return for aid rendered by its ruler, Ritti Merodach, after the Babylonian forces had been defeated by the allied tribes of Elam.

The document contains strange stipulations as to civic Iaws, freedom from taxes and conscription for the army. The volume is we believe, the last of the present series, of which for more than twenty years Sir Henry Rawlinson has been editor, it "being intended to employ metal type in lien of lithography in future publications.

It is to be hoped, however, that the work will be continued, as the treasures of the libraries of Babylon, the depositaries of the learning and wisdom of Chaldea, are far from being exhausted, and students who are unable to visit the British Museum anxiously await their publication.

•Daily Alta California, Volume 23, Number 7595, 7 January 1871
Wonderful Discovery.
A Cave or Skeletons Unearthed Near Eagle Point, low*.
From the Dubuque Herald, Dec. 27th.

For months past the papers of the northwest have been filled with marvelous accounts of the discovery here and there of various relics, supposed to have been manufactured by a people who have passed away, and left behind no written history.
These relics, consisting of skeleton, household utensils, and, agricultural implements, pieces of pottery, etc., have in the main been preserved with religious care by the heads of the various scientific institutions to which they have been consigned, but as yet no satisfactory or even plausible hypothesis has been advanced, concerning their origin.

This is a problem before which the stoutest professors quail and acknowledge their weakness, and it is therefore probable that the treat mystery will never be solved. On (Saturday last a discovery fully as wonderful as any yet reported in the northwest, has made by the workman on the Dubuque and Minnesota Railroad, near the base of one of the tall, frowning bluffs overlooking the river, a short distance above Eagle point.

At the foot of this bluff a squad of workmen were engaged in excavating in the loose stratified limestone rock for the railroad track, and while digging away with pick, spade and crowbar in the side of the bank, ,they suddenly found their further progress arrested by a large, smooth, square stone, on the outer surface of which was inscribed a large number of strange characters and devices, which none of the unlettered workmen, of course, could make out.

Under the instruction of the foreman, and by the united exertion of a number of men, the stone was removed, when, to their great astonishment there succeeded a violent rush of cold air, from a large square opening, which extended into the bluff in a horizontal direction, the air rushing out with such force that a lighted taper, held in the mouth of the opening was extinguished. Inspired by the thoughts of hidden treasure, and thinking that perhaps a cache of some of the early explorers had been discovered, it was resolved to explore the mystery at once, and bring out the strong chests and precious gems reposing somewhere within.

Lights were procured, and, holding a candle in each hand, five men, headed by the foreman, set out to explore the subterranean passage, which was cut four feet wide and high enough to permit a man to walk by bending over a little.
Groping their way along cautiously, and casting many fearful glances around them, as though they expected every moment to encounter some dreadful spectre, the party proceeded along the tunnel, which extended directly in the heart of the bluff about fifty feet, when they found their way impeded by another large stone.

Removing this, they found a flight of stone steps leading downward a distance of ten feet, and descending these the party found themselves in what appeared to be a huge chamber cut out of the solid rock, about 25 feet square and 20 feet high. For a moment the men stood lost in admiration at this wonderful work.

The floor beneath was hard and perfectly smooth, while by the dim light of the candles they could see that the walls were embellished with a multitude of uncouth characters and figures, intended to represent birds, trees, flowers and other natural objects, all carved in solid limestone.

On the south wall appeared a representation of the sun, immediately below this was the figure of a man clad in a loose, flowing robe, in the act of stepping out of a boat, and holding in his hand a dove. The roof of the chamber was embellished with stars, serpents, and chariots, two outlines being revealed plain and distinct. In the centre of the apartment was a large flat slab, and upon removing this a large vault was revealed below, which was filled with skeletons of some unknown race, all of them being in a sitting or standing posture, and almost perfectly preserved, even to the smaller bones.

It was noticed that all had originally been interred with their faces to the southwest. By the side of each skeleton stood a small vase of the most perfect form and finish, each being filled with a species of yellow colored earth.
One of the vases was examined, and at the base was found to contain some animal bones and dark particles of animal matter, which had evidently been placed in the sepulchre to support the departed to the spirit land, a funeral rite in obedience to a wide-spread custom among many barbaric nations.

Heads of arrows, stone hatchets, and pieces of shells perforated with holes, were found scattered about the vault in profusion. The skeletons were arranged in the form of a semicircle, the largest being placed in the centre.

This skeleton, by actual measurement, stood seven feet eight inches high. The teeth were white and glistened like ivory, while in the palm of one of the outstretched hands, securely locked in the articulated bones, reposed a small pearl ornament.
This person had evidently been the chief of the tribe, and was consequently buried with unusual honors. By the side of the cranium were two ear ornaments of shell, while numerous minute bone and copper beads covered the floor of the vault. Vestiges of a fibrous cloth were also discovered near the lower extremities of each skeleton, but so thin and impalpable that it crumbled away at the slightest touch.

More ornaments of gold or silver were found, but various implements in copper were scattered thickly about, which had evidently been procured from the mines Lake Superior, as the evidences are accumulating that these mines were worked at a time long prior to the deluge.

After making a thorough examination of the chamber of death and its ghostly occupants, the men came out, closing the entrance behind them. To what race the skeletons belong, by whose hands their tomb was constructed, must ever remain a mystery. It is another leaf, looking to the long ages of the past, another evidence of fact that of this world and its founders, know but very little. We understand that measures are on foot remove the skeletons and all of the most important articles to the Hall of the lowa institute of Science and Art. It is to belived that they will remain here and not be fared to depart to enrich the museums of eastern cities.

Meanwhile, some of out savants would do well to investigate the cave and its surroundings, and establish, if possible, the identity of the skeletons — whether Indian, Mexican or Mound Digger. It will prove an interesting research.

 
 

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