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==Other flood accounts==
==Other flood accounts==
===Babylonian===
==Evidence==
==Babylonian flood story==
Excavations in the ancient city of [[Ninevah]] in 1853 unearthed 12 clay tablets detailing the story of a mythical king of Uruk named Gilgamesh, and written between 2750-2500 B.C. [http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/index.html] Tablet 11 of this ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' had the hero learn the secret of immortality by going to the island of Utnapishtim, where he discovers that Utnapishtim is also the builder of the ark which carried man and animals on the seas of the flood.
Excavations in the ancient city of [[Ninevah]] in 1853 unearthed 12 clay tablets detailing the story of a mythical king of Uruk named Gilgamesh, and written between 2750-2500 B.C. [http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/index.html] Tablet 11 of this ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' had the hero learn the secret of immortality by going to the island of Utnapishtim, where he discovers that Utnapishtim is also the builder of the ark which carried man and animals on the seas of the flood.
The tablet has remarkable similarites to the Biblical account, such as the collection of animals; the violence of the Flood; the landing on a mountain (Mt Nimush); and the sending forth of a dove. However, differences abound: the ark is cube-shaped; such a vessel actually being built would have been tossed and spun around severely in the waves. Utnapishtim refers to the gods being ''frightened by the Flood, and retreated, ascending to the heaven of Anu. The gods were cowering like dogs, crouching by the outer wall''; a sacrifice by Utnapishtim after he left the ark collected the gods ''like flies over a (sheep) sacrifice'' [http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab11.htm]. This is in sharp contrast to the God of the Bible, who is in total control.
The tablet has remarkable similarites to the Biblical account, such as the collection of animals; the violence of the Flood; the landing on a mountain (Mt Nimush); and the sending forth of a dove. However, differences abound: the ark is cube-shaped; such a vessel actually being built would have been tossed and spun around severely in the waves. Utnapishtim refers to the gods being ''frightened by the Flood, and retreated, ascending to the heaven of Anu. The gods were cowering like dogs, crouching by the outer wall''; a sacrifice by Utnapishtim after he left the ark collected the gods ''like flies over a (sheep) sacrifice'' [http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab11.htm]. This is in sharp contrast to the God of the Bible, who is in total control.
===Epic of Gilgamesh===
==Evidence==
Many people, including some Christians do not believe that the Great Flood had taken place, and have cited a lack of geological evidence for a global flood [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html][http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/other_papers/rapid_post_flood_speciation.shtml]. What is ignored in this statement is the fact that approximately 75% of the earth's land area is sedimentary rock (water-laid), as well as evidence from the fossil record showing animals which have died violently, as in a cataclysm, and buried so rapidly that normal biological agents could not completely dispose of the carcasses, as is done under normal observation.
==References==
==References==