The World that Was: A Template for Writers on the Pre-Flood World
One member wrote:
I would enjoy exchanging views about what the world before the flood of Noah was like. That was a vast period of history, and there is room for as many stories as people would like to tell. Let me start with this observation: The curse upon the ground was 'progressive', not instantaneous. What do you think?
Another had written:
I have written about 100,000 words of a story about the Flood.
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The Worlds of Star Wars and Star Trek and AVATAR are nothing compared to the real world that was "The World of the Flood."
I think there should be a consensus among those of us who are biblical creationists about lots of elements of that wonderful world.
Here we can discuss several facets of the pre-flood world. We might also suggest books and sources of a scholarly nature that develop the various realms and features of that world.
Some of the categories of a template might include:
Topography, world maps with the locations of the lands and features mentioned in Gen. 1 - 6, like Eden, and Nod, and Havilah, etc. The land and the Seas, etc.
Culture: tent dwellers, city dwellers, seafarers, herders, agriculturalists, miners, smelters, manufacturers, Noah's possible means of living, religions, matriarchies, polygamy,
Religion: Sacrifice, visible angels at Eden's gate, righteousness
Law:Vengeance
Climate and Astronomy (what did the moon look like?),
Evil: slave trade, treatment of children,
Flora and Fauna
and so on.
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Permalink Reply by Jim Brenneman on -
Seems to me, based on the ages at which we are shown children were born, assuming that it is not terribly late in their lifetime, indicates that maturing was a bit delayed from present rates. In Buried Alive, Cuzzco suggest that to be be the case from his examination of Neanderthal fossils.
Nowadays, puberty and adolescence is happening at age 9-14 and this is younger than just a few decades back. But in the pre-flood world, it was more in the range of 20 to 30, with adulthood entered fully only at about age 30-50, or perhaps later. You see in the case of the three sons of Noah, that their first offspring were produced when they were well beyond age 50.
I would guess that the ark was built in a somewhat secure and defensible location, but well-known to the public, and that in general they left the "old coot" to himself and his eccentricities.
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