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Hubby · 01-21-2004

The Great Flood

"WOOLLEY IN HIS OWN WORDS
Starting then below the level at which the graves had been found we sank a little shaft, no more than five feet square at the outset, into the underlying soil and went down through the mixed rubbish that is characteristic of old inhabited sites a mixture of decomposed mud brick, ashes, and broken pottery, very much like that in which the graves had been dug. This went on for about three feet and then, suddenly, it all stopped; there were no more potsherds, no ashes, only clean water-laid mud, and the Arab workmen at the bottom of the shaft told me that he had reached virgin soil; there was nothing more to be found, and he had better go elsewhere. I got down and looked at the evidence and agreed with him, but then I took my levels and discovered that 'virgin soil' was not nearly so deep down as I had expected, for I had assumed that the original Ur was built not on a hill but on a low mound rising only just above the surrounding swampy land; and because I do not like having my theories upset by anything less than proof I told the man to get back and go on digging. Most unwillingly he did so, again turning up nothing but clean soil that yielded no sign of human activity; he dug through eight feet of it in all and then, suddenly, there appeared flint implements and fragments of painted al'Ubaid pottery vessels. I got into the pit once more, examined the sides, and by the time I had written up my notes was quite convinced of what it all meant; but I wanted to see whether others would come to the same conclusion. So I brought up two of my staff and, after pointing out the facts, asked for their interpretation. They did not know what to say. My wife came along and looked and asked the same question, and she turned away remarking casually, "Well, of course, it's the Flood." That was the right answer.
- C. Leonard Woolley: Excavations at Ur.
New York: Apollo Editions, 1965, p. 27"

http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/ur/ur-flood.htm

I can't think of any off the top of my head right now, but there are also things in the writings of religions other than Christianity that some have sought to "disprove" and have done the exact opposite.

Mind you, almost every religion I have done any reading on has contradicts itself, in one way or another, within it's own writings. That is not to say that there is, or isn't a "GOD", it is that man has a tendency to embellish and add his own ideas where he sees fit to do so.

01-21-2004	#88
Hubby Members Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 202	The Great Flood "WOOLLEY IN HIS OWN WORDS Starting then below the level at which the graves had been found we sank a little shaft, no more than five feet square at the outset, into the underlying soil and went down through the mixed rubbish that is characteristic of old inhabited sites a mixture of decomposed mud brick, ashes, and broken pottery, very much like that in which the graves had been dug. This went on for about three feet and then, suddenly, it all stopped; there were no more potsherds, no ashes, only clean water-laid mud, and the Arab workmen at the bottom of the shaft told me that he had reached virgin soil; there was nothing more to be found, and he had better go elsewhere. I got down and looked at the evidence and agreed with him, but then I took my levels and discovered that 'virgin soil' was not nearly so deep down as I had expected, for I had assumed that the original Ur was built not on a hill but on a low mound rising only just above the surrounding swampy land; and because I do not like having my theories upset by anything less than proof I told the man to get back and go on digging. Most unwillingly he did so, again turning up nothing but clean soil that yielded no sign of human activity; he dug through eight feet of it in all and then, suddenly, there appeared flint implements and fragments of painted al'Ubaid pottery vessels. I got into the pit once more, examined the sides, and by the time I had written up my notes was quite convinced of what it all meant; but I wanted to see whether others would come to the same conclusion. So I brought up two of my staff and, after pointing out the facts, asked for their interpretation. They did not know what to say. My wife came along and looked and asked the same question, and she turned away remarking casually, "Well, of course, it's the Flood." That was the right answer. - C. Leonard Woolley: Excavations at Ur. New York: Apollo Editions, 1965, p. 27" http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/ur/ur-flood.htm I can't think of any off the top of my head right now, but there are also things in the writings of religions other than Christianity that some have sought to "disprove" and have done the exact opposite. Mind you, almost every religion I have done any reading on has contradicts itself, in one way or another, within it's own writings. That is not to say that there is, or isn't a "GOD", it is that man has a tendency to embellish and add his own ideas where he sees fit to do so. __________________ It's finally open! Click here to download the NEW poker room!