A Window into the Past in Genesis

Giants not only in physical stature, but also in mind, knowledge and know-how, “men of renown". Other versions of the Bible call them the Nephilim. They were the pre-flood builders of the Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Easter Island figures and the ancient Incan walls. God destroyed them in the great flood because, “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart” (Gen 6:5-6). So God destroyed that world and gave us a new and very different world with greatly changed physical properties and limitations. We will never know what vast volumes of knowledge of the ancient world were lost when the great Library of Alexandria, the ancient world’s single greatest archive of knowledge, was burned to the ground. Perhaps it even contained information about the Pyramid builders and their abilities. Mankind has struggled unsuccessfully to come up with elaborate solutions to such ancient mysteries as Stonehenge and Pyramid building ever since. If science would only establish the great flood as fact, then everything else would fall into its proper place in history, and make perfect sense, and all of the elaborate theories would be discarded. Carbon 14 dating assumes that the production of C14 in the air has remained constant throughout the ages, but if certain universal constants were changed around the time of the flood, as man’s natural lifespan was (Gen 6:3), then Carbon 14 dating would only be accurate back to the time of the flood at the earliest (just under 4500 years ago). All dates prior to the flood achieved by Carbon 14 dating would then be grossly inaccurate. Even Professor Willard Frank Libby, the father of Carbon 14 dating, has admitted that it is only accurate up to 4,000 years ago and that all older dates have errors. That is exactly the point in history when the lifespans of the Biblical Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph) were being dramatically shortened to the lifespan we now have. The fact that God also made the first ever rainbow after the flood (Gen 9:8-17) is further evidence that dramatic atmospheric changes were occurring at that time, changes that would drastically alter C14 production. If we accept Biblical truth about the flood as fact, only then can we begin to piece together our true ancient history, complete with all its mysteries, right back to creation. It’s a simple question of faith; either you believe God, or you believe man.