The story of Noah and the flood is found in the Book of Genesis in the Bible.
All people on earth today are descended from Noah and his three sons, Japheth,
Shem, and Ham, and their wives. It is a true story and is not only limited to Bible accounts. Many ancient cultures from the Greeks to the Aztecs have flood legends, which is much more than just a coincidence.
How can I be sure that people have not been on the earth for a million years? Well, I can list several very good arguments, but try this one first.
Just Check Out the Math!
If the average human generation is about 40 years, then a million years would produce 23,256 consecutive generations.
Calculate the expected population to the present over a million
years from a 40 year generation averaging 2.5 children per family beginning with only one couple.
You should get a total figure of 10 to the power of 2091. That's trillions of people!
In other words, just in America trillions of people should be paying taxes to Uncle Sam. We only have 260 million people in the United States and most are the result of immigrants, not native breeding. Furthermore, if trillions of people were alive on earth today, do you realize how many people died in that million years?
Where are all the old bones? All of the old skeletons found in the last two centuries amount to only a tiny fraction of what should be expected! The math does not jive.
Now make the same calculation but with 4 couples from Noah. In the 4,300 years or so since the flood you will get approximately 5 billion people that should be living on the earth today. There are about 5.5 billion people on earth today. That’s real close if you ask me! Evolution is a farce.
If you absolutely need more than that to believe me, then e-mail me, and we'll talk about the Science of Thermodynamics and some other things. Listen: just the fact that the sun is burning itself out means that it had to start at full power to begin with!
According to the Bible there are 1,656 years between Adam and the flood with no gaps. Abraham was born in 2165 BC according to a chart in my Bible. By adding the years in the generations of Shem from Genesis 11:10-26, the date of the flood was 2457 BC. Add the 1,656 years to that, and the date that Adam & Eve entered the physical world was 4113 BC. Add our 2000 years and the river of humanity from Adam and Eve has apparently only been on the earth living in sin for a little more that 6,000 years.
Did you know that 2003 is the year 5763 on the Hebrew Calendar?
Since evolution is a farce then what happened? Well, it's really quite simple .... Adam's civilization was destoryed by a flood. Noah and his family survived. And because they had no idea where they were, they followed water. They followed streams and rivers and coast-lines, and in the first few generations, the children became kissing cousins. Then families became clans.
Water is always where the food is. If they didn't follow rivers they would have died. Check out the rivers on a map! And remember that when you follow a river downstream it gets bigger. So that's the way to go.
But first, they made a plan
I believe that after the ark landed on Mt. Ararat, common sense would indicate, that Noah made a plan. And I believe that the plan Noah made “to people the earth” was not complicated, but it was practical, and really, it was the only thing they could do. Noah's plan can be summed up in three simple steps:
First: To live off of the remaining supplies in the ark and begin to farm. Let most of the animals go but keep the cows, horses, chickens, etc. Remember, Noah built the ark and the technological know-how that went into building the ark came out of the ark with Noah and his sons, including the knowledge of how to forge metal. But they had no need for metal ore yet because they had all of the tools they needed with them. But they had the skill. And they taught the skill to their children. (Genesis 9-20)
Second: After they established themselves and multiplied for several generations, the earth greened up, and then they sent out explorers to settle the coastlands. The coastlands were obviously on the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea; and especially in the Carpathian Basin where the Danube River enters it, and also the Dneper River on the north coast. Eventually, the Atlantic Coast was explored, the British Isles, and Scandinavia. These explorers were the grandchildren of Japheth by his son Javan in the third generation. They were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittum, and Dodanim. The first explorers left about 50 years after the flood, plenty of time for vegetation to grow and a population of animals to stay ahead of them. (Genesis 10:4-5)
Third: This is very important. Noah and his sons oversaw the implementation of the plan in obedience to God. Whenever you have a plan it is better to have the original people who are motivated see it through for quality control. Especially in a family business; the patriarch gets more respect than a son, uncle, or a cousin. The next generations who inherit that which cost them nothing loose the discipline to maintain it. Noah was able to personally maintain quality control in that regard for 350 years after the flood. His son Shem lived another 500 years after the flood. After they died everything fell apart; the new settlements forgot God; they gave themselves the credit; and civilization became decedent and corrupt once again. Then God made another covenant with Abraham, for our benefit, between 2165 and 2065 BC. (Genesis 9:29, 10:11, 12:1-3)
So Follow the First Trail
The Bible says that Noah’s Ark rested on Mount Ararat in the modern day country of Turkey. That’s common knowledge.
But the Bible also says that after leaving the Ark they went to the
East. And that fact can be clearly seen by looking at the river below Mt. Ararat. The
Aras River flows east into the countries of Armenia and Azerbaijan into a fertile basin before entering the Caspian Sea. I believe that is the area where Noah and his sons lived immediately following the flood for at least three or four generations before Japheth’s clans began spreading out to explore.
And it's very interesting to me that the time table fits perfectly with the rise of the Indus Valley Civilization, once again, to the east.
Check it out for yourself. Look at the probable path through Georgia to the Black Sea too.
I believe the logical path of migration, until the generation of Nimrod, was to take the path of least resistance by following river water, sending explorers from a base camp on short journeys to find better places and routes. And where they settled they left artifacts of pottery. The more leisure time they had the fancier the pottery was.
When clans settled in an area for several generations they forgot who the real God was. Then they came up with gods of their own and worshiped idles. That tendency probably began the cycle of generations, which Polybius called "anacyclosis". Some of the original explorers themselves became cult heroes and “as gods” to their people. The faces on Mt. Rushmore, for example, and people like Martin Luther King might be considered the gods of America to some distant future generation.
It Doesn't Take Very Long
In just a few generations, only one family can spawn hundreds of people, and Noah had three sons with families besides himself and Mrs. Noah. That's plenty of time to have over 5 billion people on earth from just them.
Futhermore, consider how many people could have been on earth in the 1,656 years from Adam to Noah? There were millions. And that civilization had plenty of time to inhabit the earth.
And the Palatines did the Same Thing
It's amazing to me how right out in the open the common sense of it is, but hardly anybody sees it.
What Noah and his family did after landing on Mt. Ararat is very similar to what the Palatines did from 1709 through the 1720's.
When the Palatines decided to emigrate they followed the Rhein River and coalesed as a tribe. After landing in New York, they journeyed up the Hudson River with their fellow clans-men to build a settlement. Then the Palatines sent explorers to the Schoharie Valley, following a creek, to check it out. Then the whole tribe migrated there. Just like Noah would have done. Then, after a few more years, the Schoharie settlement split up, and once again, like-minded people joined each other and went in different directions. Just like Noah's clans would have done. And then once again, they followed rivers and streams; the Susquehannah River, Schoharie Creek, and the Mohawk River.
I'll say it again: It's amazing to me how right out in the open the common sense of it all is, but hardly anybody sees it.
The Christman family, itself, split up, forming family clans. Eventually the Christman clans all settled in the Mohawk River valley's watershed after more exploration. And now, just from that
one Christmann family alone, there are thousands of descendants in only 300 years. It's exactly what Noah did but Noah lived longer so it even happened quicker.
Noah and his three sons spawned a very large number of people in a relatively short period of time. And just like the Mohawk Valley's Christman family, the cousins lost touch with each other, and forgot about each other in time.
So the point is this: History has jelled together, and fogged-in, and fogged-out, and fogged-in again, exactly like the Bible says it has happened.
Now Follow the Trail of the Celts and Germans
The clans of Japheth's sons, Gomer & Javan, were explorers according to scripture.
The clans of Javan explored the coastlands of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to Scandinavia. Tarshish became a trading center in Spain. Dodanim probably made it all the way around to Scandinavia. That's why he is idolized in German legend as a god. It's because of his adventures.
The clans of Gomer, on the other hand, explored the river valleys going north & west from the Carpthian Basin on the Black Sea; because, the Carpathian Basin area is where Gomer's clans had settled and grown.
The clan that migrated west up the Danube River became the Celts, and they eventually had trading
contact with the coastal exploring clans again. The Danube led the Celts all the way in to a great network of other inland rivers such as the Rhein & Rhone, which flow all the way up to the North Sea and back down to the Mediterranean Sea, thus connecting the Black Sea, Europe, and the Mediterranean all together in a gigantic loop.
The clan that migrated north up the Dneper River from the Carpathian Basin became the Germanic people, and they eventually settled in the Baltic area & Scandinavia. The rivers the Germans followed just went farther and farther into the wilderness, and their civilization became isolated for centuries.
Guess what is almost exactly in the center of every ancient map? Mount Ararat. Gee, I wonder why? And check out the rivers they know at the time. I don't know how people can go to college and miss it. Maybe they should just go hunting and camping for a month without bringing food or a radio.
Isolated Way Out Yonder
The Germanic people lived in virtual isolation from the rest of mankind for about 2500 years after they migrated north to the Baltic area and in to Scandinavia. Occasionally they would have an opportunity to trade amber with the Celts and others who explored the coasts. There are well known amber trade routes that go back to the Carpathian Basin.
But basically the Germanic civilization lived in solitude where tribes grew very large in the centuries that followed.
By the second century BC, the Germanic tribes had increased in population and slowly inhabited the dense forested areas of modern Germany & Poland. They had been slowly moving south and east over the centuries, which apparently intensified from about 700 to 500 BC. They followed old trading trails, and rivers, and other topography features just like the Palatines did.
The first area they moved into was northeast Germany, especially between the Elbe and Oder Rivers.
The migrating tribes consisted of hunters and gatherers who coalesced into larger groups, or "confederations" as needed. The fact they they formed confederations for a common defense is what made the Germanic people unique and powerful. And after the Roman Empire collapsed and the German tribes inherited the western part of it, that unique style evolved into feudalism, and eventually in to corporations in smoke filled rooms. President Bush is trying to form a coalition of tribes as I write this. And it may be one of the last times. I believe it's called "The Armies of Gomer" in Ezekiel 38.
Something about the Ancient German Culture
The forests of eastern Europe acted as barriers in the ancient world separating village from village, and provided all of the building materials for the crude hut type structures the German tribes built for living in, as well as the crude forts they needed for protection, which in time evolved into Castles.
Cooking, heating, and domesticated animals; like pigs, geese, and goats, foraged in the woods near their dwellings. For crops they grew some varieties of wheat, barley, and legumes that were planted in small areas of land they cleared by using the slash and burn technique.
The ancient Germans practiced communal possession of property and did not recognize private property; and, that is exactly what the Palatine Immigrants of 1710 did in their migration from Livingston Manor to Schoharie, and then again later, when they migrated to Burnet's Field & Stone Arabia on the Mohawk River.
When the Germans began to migrate out of Scandinavia & the Baltic, the Marne-Mosel settlements of the Celts in the Rheinland/Pfalz of modern Germany, and the Celt settlements of Helvetia in modern Switzerland, were prospering toward and nearing their peak. They reached the peak by 450-300 BC, especially in settlements near Kaiserslautern at Rodenbach in the Pfalzer-Wald, and in Bad Duerkheim, on the Rhein River, where Christian Christmann lived in 1665.
The Celts also had settlements along the Neckar River from Stuttgart to Heidleberg, and on the Danube and Isar Rivers in Bavaria. The Celts also had many tribes in Austria, Switzerland and Gaul, which is now called France.
The Celtic homeland was the best network of rivers in the world. The Danube River connected the Carpathian Basin to the Rhein River and the North Sea; and just a hop, skip, and jump over to the Rhone River, and the Celts were able to pick up jugs of wine for salt from merchants at Massilia
on the Mediterranean seacoast; where, civilization grew fast because of trading between Mediterranean coastal settlements and the Near East. That's why the Indo-European people stretch all the way to India.
While all that was evolving, the German civilization grew, but isolated deep in the forest. And most likely they were unaware that looming behind the land of the Celts was a growing Roman Empire.
And so it came to be in the fullness of time, that the Germans wondered what the heck was going on in the land of the Celts. Where did they get all that neat stuff? Therefore in 113 BC, German tribes called the Cimbri and the Teutons, went to check things out in the land of the Celts. The German tribesmen made a beeline to the Hallstatt area in Noricum (Austria) to see where the
Celts got all the neat stuff and to find out what was going on. By then the Celts were strongly organized in Noricum (Austria) and had been trading with
the Romans with metal and salt.
And so it came to pass in the fullness of time, that the Germans and Romans locked horns for the first time; and the Romans had never fought anybody quite like the Germans who beat the Romans soundly in the first several encounters. It was several years before the Roman General Marius
finally defeated them.
Eventually the Romans drove the Germans back into the eastern forests. But the Germans had tasted the land of the Celts, and thus, the Germans became the third player in a collision of civilizations in Europe. And by the time Julius Caesar was making plans for his invasion into Gaul, the German tribes were back at the east bank of the Rhein River displacing the Marne-Mosel Celts.
The Celts feared the Germans. And the Germans became instant competition with the Romans for the eventual control of Gaul. That was the frontier. The British Empire had a similar encounter with the Iroquois.
In the meantime, migrations of German tribes continued moving south and west. And when those interior tribes were on the move it was no small matter. The wagon trains were miles long with all of their cattle, and livestock, with thousands of men, and women, and children.
The migrating Germans didn't know it then, but they were about to join the human race from antiquity. And so it came to pass that civilizations of people had grown from the clans of Noah into tribes and races of people, and they collided in the fullness of time at the Rhein River, one of the most strategic rivers of world history.
The next recorded Roman encounter with a German tribe after the Cimbri & Teuton invasion of 113BC was only 75 years later where another large and powerful German confederation formed on the east bank of the Rhine River in the modern Alsace region of France.
The confederation was led by the Germanic king - Ariovistus.
The tribe was called the Suebi. Eventually they became the Alamanni.
