By L. ERVIN WRIGHT
Americar
International Newsreel
William Greenwood, of Olympia, Washington, who be-
lieves a flood of the proportions of Noah's Deluge will
inundate America, and who has built an ark in prepara-
tion for it. The rainbow means nothing but colors to him
flood, of which the excavators have revealed traces,
is estimated to have occurred some 600 years earlier,
at about 4000 B.C.”
Professor Langdon believes that the world’s
earliest civilization began at Kish before 4000 B.C.
He believes that an early flood about 4000 B.c. wiped
out the first civilization at Kish, and that the city
had been re-established after the flood subsided,
only to be wiped out again in another flood, which
he identifies as the Flood of Noah.
If man survived this first flood without the use of
an ark, why was it necessary to build an ark to
escape the second flood?
The truth is that there were evidently two ex-
ceptional floods in the Mesopotamian valley some
years apart. That these floods were six hundred
years apart or occurred in 4000 B.C. and 3400 B.C. is
guess work, and that either of these floods was the
Bible Flood is preposterous.
The Euphrates and the Tigris have always been
inundating rivers. Fed by the mountain snows,
which vary with the years, these rivers also vary in
their flood waters. The Euphrates River is 1780
AUGUST, 1929
miles long; the Tigris is 1146 miles in length. The
inundation period of these rivers averages in modern
times over half a year. Immense volumes of water
have flowed in their stream-beds in the course of a
single year. The Euphrates flows through a canyon
of rock, which it has dug down to the depth of one
hundred to three hundred feet below the level of the
Mesopotamian plain, and is at this point from two
to three miles wide. This, digging of course, was
not done all at once, but in the course of a single
flood season countless thousands of tons of clay and
silt are carried to the Persian Gulf.
TENFOLD EVIDENCE
HEN Abraham was living in Ur, this city was
upon the Persian Gulf. Today the gulf is scores
of miles away. The sediment of the Euphrates and the
Tigris river which is deposited at their joint mouth
causes the waters of the gulf to be pushed back at
the rate today of about seventy-two feet a year.
Thus every seventy-three years the gulf is pushed
back one mile.
If it can be proved that the cities of Ur and Kish
were covered with eight feet of clay at a single
inundation, we have only the evidence of a flood
of unexpected magnitude. Such floods might be
expected from such rivers, which were in the habit
of overflowing every year. But that the worst flood
the Euphrates and the Tigris river could produce
should ever be identified with the Flood of Genesis
seems absurd. Whole cities might have been wiped
out, but these rivers could never cause a flood which
would call for the building of Noah's ark.
It is ludicrous to think of men’s supposing that a
flood which laid down only eight feet of silt over a
very restricted area should be the flood that God
warned Noah was coming and that Noah preached
about for 120 years. The evidence of Noah's Flood
is more than eight feet of Euphratean silt under the
ancient cities of Ur and Kish. The facts of the case
are that the eight feet of silt in question is only the
evidence of a local flood of the Babylonian valley
some time after Noah’s Flood had swept the entire
earth. The evidence of the Flood can be found in
every part of the globe. It can be found under the
cities of Ur and Kish, but it is farther down than the
archeologists have dug. The Flood of Noah has left
its marks in the thousands of feet of stratified rock
all over the earth, and not in ninety-six inches of
silt laid down by a single river in a small district.
Beneath Ur and Kish can be found hundreds of
feet of strata which were laid down during the period
of the Deluge of Noah.
Rocks all over the earth show that the crust of
the earth is only a cemetery of a former arrangement
when both plants and animals were larger and more
wonderful than any now on earth. (Cont. on page 35)
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