Noah's Ark. Fact or Fiction?

this is a dead issue for me. The Ark story is an adaptation of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh which was based off of a real event wherein an early melt coupled with record rainfall caused a massive local flood in the region

Jewish adaptation of 'Epic of Gilgamesh'. Sumerian, I believe. Borrowed tale from the nightmares of Mesopotamian flood-plain problems.

Borrowed!? :wtf:

Despite superfical similarities, the differences between the two accounts are quite signficant. In the Gilgamesh account the Gods destroyed the human race because man was making so much noise that the Gods could not sleep. In the Gilgamesh account the God Ea told Utnapishtim to lie to his neighbors so they would help him build the boat. The Gilgamesh account has the boat built and ready to float in 7 days. The size of the boat is 200ft. by 200ft. by 200ft. another words, unseaworthy. In the Gilgamesh account it states that when the water came the Gods scrambled to get away from the flood like whipped dogs. Because the story is similar to the Biblical account, this does not necessarly mean it was borrowed. Also the tablet that it was written on was dated to be around 650 B.C. These tablets are not the originals, since fragments of the flood story have been found on tablets that date to 2,000 B.C. It is likely that the story itself originated much before that, since the Sumerian cuneiform writing has been estimated to go as far back as 3,300 B.C.

Borrowed!? :wtf:

You swing from Bush's nuts like some sort of presidential testicular tarzan.
Do you have fantasies about George Bush sneaking into your room at night and "invading your privacy"?

Old news to anyone who studies history. Old, old news. The fact you haven't heard of it before serves as further evidence you don't read. :thumbdown:

Now, lemme school ya. You've just insulted me, without moderator intervention. So, it would appear I'm free to bite back in like fashion. See how it starts? I'll nip back, then it'll be your turn, and then I'll snack some more. Eventually, it'll become a contest, which all here will watch. I'll start preying on you, deliberately making you as angry as I can, to get you to lose composure. I'll get the upper hand, and start to really piss you off, still within the framework and confines of the conversation we started long ago. Finally, out of desperation and outrage, you'll try to hurt me anyway you can, and cry to The Man. You'll allege that I've 'broken the ROE', which we'll both be very guilty of, from the start. To keep the peace, The Man will censor ME, since I'm obviously better than you are at this game, even though I've done nothing you didn't do, just as many times. It's old, and I'm a bit tired of it. They ban me for it, which gets old. So.....I'll keep mine, and let you hold forth with yours. I'll keep swinging from Bush's nuts, until they rest again, on your stubbled chin. "All them yankees look good, with my **** in their mouths." -- GW

No i was questioning your usage of words....noah's ark wasn't borrowed...the creator didn't borrow anything, he didn't return or intend on returning anything

the story was Stolen, it's an outright plagurization!


(Perhaps you should learn to read within a context!)

So, you know the word 'context', eh? I'm impressed.

it's not the differences that concern me it's the similarities that do!