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As I have been writing about the dates of events in Genesis relative to recorded history, it dawned on me how arrogant it must look, interpreting the time lines of Moses a bit differently than tradition. But, when the dates I computed mapped historical and scientific dates to Biblical durations exactly, it was frankly quite exciting. Still, it suggests that there is some error in the Jewish interpretation (and Christian for that matter) of Genesis, in particular the years that Israel spent in Egypt.  Here is the chronology of events I computed and blogged on several months ago, from The Flood to the completion of the Temple…

2807 BC - Flood Begins
2806 BC - Flood Ends
2380 BC - God’s covenant with …

Every now and then I go searching for other Old Earth bloggers. I just found one that looks really good. I like how it’s organized, and like the variety of topics. Also importantly, he’s still posting.  I can’t tell you how many bloggers I find whose last post is 6 months ago, or longer… not that there’s any lack of old material worth reading there!

The site is The GeoChristian… with my own site being Geocreationism, I had to check it out.

Joseph at Always Have a Reason requested a few guest posts about Geocreationism. In response to my first guest post, Geocreationism- Introduction, he suggested I check out the book by Walter Brown, entitled In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood. The preceding link is to an online copy of the book, so I have decided to take up the challenge.
The last Young Earth Creation book I reviewed was “Evidence for Creation” by Tom DeRosa. It was a rather painful review in many ways, where valid points are made about the attitude secular scientists have toward God, but then their work is completely misunderstood and miscast. To date, I have tended to …

 20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, …

Okay, I am finally ready to attempt a fuller flood account.  I am not saying every detail is true.  I am merely putting together the evidence I have found into a cohesive story.  To read through the details of my evidence as I found it, here are some links: 

Evidence for when the flood was — May 2, 2807 BC

Dating the Flood… May 10, 2807 B.C.?
Dating the Flood… when Science Meets History
Does my Date for the Flood Hold Water? (Conclusion) - Yes, it does!
Honing in on the Date of the Flood — May 2, 2807 BC

Evidence for where …

I have researching and writing on the date of the Flood for some time now.

First, I wrote of scientific evidence of a meteor strike that would have caused a “great flood” in the middle east around 2800.  Being so close to a total eclipse that was on May 10, 2807 BC, it suggested a possible date that the flood might have occurred close to:

Scientific evidence for the flood being in 2807 BC: Dating the Flood… May 10, 2807 B.C.?

I later presented historical evidence for that time-frame.  It would seem that the flood myths of Sumer, Egypt, and India all date to around 2800 BC, just before experiencing quantum leaps in their …

Dating the Flood - History of Lake Van (Part 1)
Dating the Flood - History of Lake Van (Part 2)
Dating the Flood - History of Lake Van (Part 3) - Of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and May 1 2807BC
Continuing on with our Journal review…

We interpret the gradual rise in organic carbon content from a low of 0.1% around 8000
years B. P. to a value of 4% in the modern sediments as a sign of increase in
plankton productivity due to the freshening of lake waters and an improvement
in the living conditions of the local habitat (SCHOLL, 1978). Prior to 8000 years
B. P., organic carbon values increase with depth, a further indication of …

Dating the Flood - History of Lake Van (Part 1)
Dating the Flood - History of Lake Van (Part 2)

So far, we have seen in the article “A Geological Study of Lake Van, Eastern Turkey” by Degens, et. al., the period at or near 2807 BC is conspicuous for the sunspot activity plunging to zero at what appears just before the flood, then going right back up to its typical level, but sustained much more steadily than usual.  We also saw that during this same period, the earth’s global temperature plummeted at around that same time, to a much lower temperature than usual, and then went steeply trended to a near max.  …

Dating the Flood - History of Lake Van (Part 1)

Continuing my review of the journal article, “A Geological Study of Lake Van, Eastern Turkey” by Degens, et. al.
Lake Van is a lake with a volume of 607 km 3 and a maximum depth of 451 m in a tectonically
active zone in eastern Anatolia. (p. 1)

Only about 500 years appear to be
necessary for the lake to acquire its current shape and level, almost an instantaneous
event in terms of geological time and certainly far too rapid for geological
processes like sedimentation or subsidence to play a significant role. (p.20)
Assuming Lake Van filled uniformly over a 500-year period, as suggested by this article’s model, it would fill at a volume of 1.2 km …

There are many things one has to do to verify the date of a historical event.  In my case, I started with a conspicuous geographical feature, the Burckle Crater, whose creation suggested there was a flood around where Noah existed.  The date suggested was 2807 BC.  Why then?  Well, the tsunami that would have been caused by the impact would have run along the surelines of the Indian Ocean, where there are several chevrons that date to around 2807 BC.  Also, there were historical citings of odd geological events around then, such as a full eclipse, which occurred May 10, 2807 BC.

To check out that date, I looked for historical proof of a flood in 2807 BC.  What I …