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"Those who are interested in the once burning question as to the relation between this
narrative and modern science should consult the very thorough discussion in Driver's Commentary.
Here it must suffice to say that the value of the narrative is not scientific but religious; that it imperils
faith to insist on literal accuracy in a story which can only by unjustifiable forcing be made to yield it;
that it was more in hormony with the method of inspiration to take current views and purify them so
that they might be fit
vehicles of religious truth then to anticipate the progress of research by revealing
prematurely what men could in due time discover for themselves; and finally that even if this
narrative could be harmonised with our present knowledge, we should have the task of the
harmonising the very different narrative in the second chapter both with the
present story and with modern science." (A commentary on the Bible, by Arthur S.Peake M.A.D.D.
Page136)
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date, and that fact has been used to support the belief in the accurence of a Universal deluge. But
excavation on the sites of other ancient Mesopotamian cities has showen similar evidence of early
destructive floods, but not at the same period. Hence the Mesopotamian evidence only proves that
the Tigris-Euphrates valley was subject to severe river-floods, and that this local feature had been
taken up into the myth of the destruction of mankind which a
diffferent origin altogather." (Peak's commentary on the Bible. Matthew Blake ,page 184)
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~–ì: ArthurS.Peak %û A commentary on the Bible
" The question as to the character of the narrative still remains. The terms seem to require a
universal deluge, for all flesh on the earth was destroyed (6/17,7/4,21-23), and "all the high
mountains that were under the whole heaven werecovered"(7/19f). But this would involve a depth of
water all over the world not far short of 30,000 ft., and that sufficient water was available at the time
is most improbable. The ark could not have contained more than a very small proportion of the
animal life of the globe, to say nothing of the food needed for them, nor could eight people have
attended to their wants, nor apart from a constant miracle could the very different conditions they
required in order to live at all have been supplied. Nor without such a miracle, could they have come
from lands so remote. Moreover, the present distribution of animals would on this view be
unaccountable . . . . . Nor if the human race took a new begining from three brothers and their three
wives (7/13, 9/19) could we account for the origin, within the very brief period which is all that our
knowledge of antiquity permits, of so many different races, for the development of largnages with a
long history behind them, or for the founding states and rise of advanced civilisations. And this quite
understates the difficulty, for archaeology shows a continuous development of such civilisations
from a time far earlier then the earliest to which the Flood can be assigned. A partial Deluge is not
consistent with the Biblical representation..... And an inundation which took seventy-three days to
sink from the day when the ark rested on the mountain of Ararat till the tops of the mountains
became visible (8/4f) implies a depth of water which would involve a universal deluge. The story
therefore,cannotbeacceptedashistorical,(A commentary on the Bible by Arthur S. Peak pp.143)
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