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YOUR BIBLE AND YOU
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E V I D E N C E S O F I N S P I R A T I O N
ing evidence in confirmation of even the smallest details of the Bible story.
Biologists, after innumerable experiments, amply corroborated the simple
Genesis declaration concerning the reproduction of species.
Geologists and paleontologists gleaned facts from the rocks in widely scattered
areas of the earth, which demonstrate beyond doubt that Noah’s flood
was no fiction.
Nuclear scientists, investigating the power of the atom, came to the conclusion
that sudden creation and dissolution even of stars and planets is not by
any means unreasonable.
Astronomers, with their mighty modern telescopes and radar-scopes,
revealed a universe in perfect harmony with the majestic concept of the
Hebrew seers of long ago.
Some specific archaeological discoveries are of special interest.
Digging into a mound of earth in Babylonia, a group of archaeologists found
it to contain the remains of the very ancient city of Erech, which is coupled
with Babel in Genesis 10:10. After going down through 50 feet of debris
of reed huts and mud-brick houses, they came across the foundations of a
great temple and the base of a ziggurat, or artificial mountain. Such buildings
prove the existence of an educated, highly organized community, with
considerable knowledge of arts, crafts, and religion, as far back as 2000 B.C.
Similar results were obtained by Sir Charles Woolley at Ur of the Chaldees,
where in the now-uncovered streets the modern tourist may see the kind of
houses people lived in during the days of Abraham, what utensils they used,
how they conducted their correspondence, and what gods they worshiped.
In Egypt a find of cuneiform tablets proved to be correspondence between
the Egyptian court and the princes of Canaan at the beginning of the fourteenth
century B.C. Known as the Tell el-Amarna Letters, they throw a
flood of light on conditions in Canaan at that time. Many scholars believe
that they have reference to the beginning of the Hebrew invasion of Palestine
under Joshua.
In 1928 a group of French archaeologists began to excavate the mound of Ras
Shamra, which turned out to be the site of the ancient city of Ugarit on the
Syrian coast. In one of the temples they found a number of tablets inscribed in
cuneiform, which proved to be an alphabetic script, a rival of the Phoenician
alphabet, the parent of all Western alphabets. Translated, the tablets provided