by
Damien
F. Mackey
“…
the “Ark tablet” that Finkel and the British Museum finally got hold of four
years ago … contains 600 cuneiform characters and is dated between 1900 and
1700 BC, which makes it roughly a millennium older than the book of Genesis”.
Jerry A. Coyne
That’s a bold
statement by Coyne!
He may look a
bit like Noah, this Irving Finkel, who has translated an early Babylonian tablet
about a flood and a corresponding boat-like vessel. Though Jerry A. Coyne, Professor of Ecology and Evolution at The
University of Chicago and author of Why Evolution is True, has described Finkel as bearing “a remarkable
resemblance to an aged Darwin with more hair”.
Whatever about
all that, firstly let us get a bit of
proper perspective about dates and eras.
Even if Assyriologist
Finkel’s cuneiform tablet were written as early as 1900 or 1700 BC,
it would still fall
well short in age of the Genesis narrative accounts of the Flood, because the
Genesis Flood Narrative [Was] An Eyewitness Account
This part of Genesis
was the product, first of Noah, and then, afterwards, of his three sons:
Toledôt of Genesis. Part One (a): Colophon Key to the
Structure of Genesis
Secondly, we have found that Babylonian
era conventionally dated to 1900-1700 BC, the time of the great Hammurabic (Old
Babylonian) dynasty, needs to be lowered by approximately a millennium. For, in
actuality:
and
