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Does God Exist? 4 New Arguments



  1. Astrophysicists tell us that the cosmological Big Bang yielded:

    A: All of the elements in the Universe.
    B: Most of the elements in the Universe.
    C: A Handful of fundamental elements.
    D: No elements.
  2. Scientific advancements have led to the ability to create life from dead stuff:

    A: True
    B: False
  3. Charles Darwin never answered which core question?

    A: What is the theory of evolution?
    B: How did evolution begin?
    C: What is natural selection?
    D: None of the above.
  4. The psychological Big Bang must account for:

    A: Man’s search for meaning, significance, and purpose.
    B: How all the matter in the Universe came to exist.
    C: How basic lifeforms arose.
    D: How psychoanalysis developed.
  5. Abiogenesis refers to:

    A: The diversity of life on Earth.
    B: The formation of planets.
    C: Life developing from nothing.
    D: None of the above.

Babylonian Tale Of Round Ark Draws Ire From Some Christian Circles




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Irving Finkel, curator in charge of cuneiform clay tablets at the British Museum, holds up a 4,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet that tells the story of a circular ark and a catastrophic flood.





A circular ark is in keeping with the look of a coracle, a type of river taxi that was widely used during ancient times in the region now known as Iraq. But the layout doesn’t mesh with Genesis, which is taken as the word-for-word literal truth in fundamentalist Christian circles.

Which came first?
Finkel said the account of the flood and the ark was probably passed along to the Jews during their Babylonian exile in the 6th century B.C. and served as the basis for the Genesis story. Biblical Archaeology Review’s Noah Wiener said the cuneiform tablet was created “a full millennium before the Genesis narrative was written down.”

But Ken Ham, who founded Answers in Genesis-U.S. and is trying to raise $73 million to build a full-scale replica of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky, says it must have been the other way around: The true account must have come first in Genesis, and was corrupted by the time the Babylonians set down their details on the Ark Tablet.



Would it? We may find out: The Telegraph reports that Britain’s Channel 4 has begun filming a documentary about an effort to reconstruct the circular ark. The project is a spin-off of Finkel’s newly published book, “The Ark Before Noah.”


Babylonian tale of round ark draws ire from some Christian circles

Alan Boyle, Science EditorNBC News