More like the story of Gilgamesh is a modified copy of the story of Noah. The so-called experts, athiests who also admit their main reason for distorting the evidence they find is to prove Christians wrong, all believe that Gilgamesh is older but there is plenty of evidence to suggest otherwise.
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"their main reason for distorting the evidence they find is to prove Christians wrong"
Not exactly. The fact is that we are tired of you people arrogantly shoving Jesus in our faces, that we love to see you squirm when faced with a skeptical question. You people bring it on yourselves. Just like Satanism. Satanism was just invented as a mockery of Christianity and just based in general defiance of it. You people are just begging for ridicule.
I hate to break it to you, but we have not been exploring the history of our planet just to prove the Bible wrong. Evidence may come out of it which does so, but so too does evidence which Christians twist around to claim that the Bible is true.
"More like the story of Gilgamesh is a modified copy of the story of Noah "
...What ?
The Epic of Gilgamesh is about an invincible hero-king, part God, his epic battle and subsequent kinship with the wildman Enkindu, their battle with a giant boar and Enkindu's inevitable death.
Noah's Ark is about... well, Noah's Ark.
HOW THE FUCK ARE THOSE TWO STORIES ANYTHING ALIKE
"More like the story of Gilgamesh is a modified copy of the story of Noah. The so-called experts, athiests who also admit their main reason for distorting the evidence they find is to prove Christians wrong, all believe that Gilgamesh is older but there is plenty of evidence to suggest otherwise."
Just because you find the facts uncomfortable, does not mean they are not the facts.
Just because those who do the research do not come to a conclusion you like does not mean they are in error. While it is common in creationist/Bible literalist circles to lie and distort the facts, most scholars try to avoid such behaviors.
Just because you say there is evidence showing that the Noah story is older than the Gilgamesh story does not mean you're correct.
Well, except for the fact that Gilgamesh is a hell of a lot cooler than Noah, and there are no direct correlations that I can think of. Except for them both being fictional. Maybe people should actually try reading things before they start trying to shoehorn them into their favorite bedtime story.
There is no evidence to "suggest" that the story if Noah is older than Gilgamesh. There is, however, quite a lot of evidence to support the reverse.
This is just the same old fundie rhetoric: when reality conflicts with their dogma, it's reality that must be wrong, so you may as well just make the statemnt that it's wrong despite the fact that you don't know jack shit about what you are talking about.
"there is plenty of evidence to suggest otherwise"
You wishing it weren't true does NOT constitute 'evidence'.
"The so-called experts, athiests who also admit their main reason for distorting the evidence they find is to prove Christians wrong"
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, STRAWMAN!
The so-called experts, athiests who also admit their main reason for distorting the evidence they find is to prove Christians wrong, all believe that Gilgamesh is older but there is plenty of evidence to suggest otherwise.
Well, no, there's not "plenty of evidence". There's just speculation by fundies that maybe the Bible has earlier written sources that Gilgamesh copied. They don't actually know of such sources, though - they just assume they exist because that's the conclusion they want. Most biblical scholars who don't have a fundie ax to grind think the story of Noah was written down about 1,400 - 1,500 BC. Gilgamesh was probably written as much as 1,000 years earlier. Unlike the Bible, we actually have clay tablets of Gilgamesh that predate Moses. What experts admit they're distorting evidence just to prove Christianity wrong? Sweetbilly just made that up.
They are not atheist. They are just common sense and put two and two together. If you discover clay tablets, which are(by exact thermolumminiscent proofs)5000 years old and you find the Bible, who reliable both Christian and secular scholars say it was written down in 700 BC after being told and retold from the second millenium BC in a place close to the bone to Palestine(and it doesn´t matter. Versions flood have been detected in India or in Greece, to name a few places), well, only an Alternative Bizarro Universe candidate like you can say such a nonsense. And I propose this one, because he denies data he´s handling, against all evidence.
Nothing surprising here...historically, religionists are famous for rejecting evidence to the contrary, and for good reason: their dogma depends upon it.
Also, non-changing belief systems (like the louder of the US fundi churches) have little to no room for 'new evidence that becomes available.'
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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