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derived from the Torah, a Jewish religious scripture, the story of Noah is also in the Bible that was compiled, at the Council of Nicaea, in 325 CE. If you enjoy debating true believers in the the story of Noah, consider asking how a 500 year-old man, described in Genesis, conceived children. During the Medieval Period, over a thousand years after the Council of Nicaea, if you lived to be forty-years-old your were lucky.
The average life expectancy for a male child born in the UK between 1276 and 1300 was 31.3 years. In 1998, it is 76. However, by the time the 13th-Century boy had reached 20 he could hope to live to 45, and if he made it to 30 he had a good chance of making it into his fifties.
As for true believers, who claim archeological evidence of the great flood in the Noah story has been discovered. Here is the rest of the story:
In 1929, while excavating Abraham’s (alleged) native city of Ur, the great British archaeologist Leonard Woolley (1880-1960) observed a thick layer of sediment covering the valley. Not a man to shy away from publicity, Woolley telegraphed messages to the leading newspapers in Britain and the USA announcing that he had found proof of Noah’s Flood. But he was a scholar too, so when he compiled his report, Ur of the Chaldees: A Record of Seven Years of Excavation (London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1935), he acknowledged that what he had discovered was evidence not of a universal deluge, but of a disaster confined to the lower Tigris/Euphrates valley.
The particular website, which presents the previous narrative, provides several other accounts of Noah-like heroes, who survived great floods, through divine intervention. One dates all the way beck to Sumerian culture. Are you familiar with that ancient belief system?
http://thetorah.com/noahs-flood-story/
Although I am agnostic, I enjoy studying various ancient and modern religions, without judging anyone for their beliefs: Is it obvious?
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