Recently the BBC has been showing an interesting series of archaeological type programmes, Bible Mysteries, which essentially have been showing the Bible to be based on fact. On March 21, they showed a 'drama documentary' on Noah's ark. They claim to be showing once again that the Bible story has a basis in fact, but it ends up very differently from the Bible account.
The programme was presented by Jeremy Bowen (who was also involved with a helpful documentary on our Lord Jesus a couple of years ago). His interest in the Bible arises from his years of broadcasting from the Middle East, particularly in Israel. The Radio Times announces that Bowen 'deconstructs the myth' and 'rebuilds it into a more realistic account'. I suppose we cannot expect the BBC to present the Bible in the way we would like, but it would be good if they presented the facts (rather than misrepresenting them) and included folk who support the Bible account.
Global signature
The commentator rightly states that a great flood like the biblical one would leave a signature and that would be all over the world. Since the only one they located was that of Woolley in Iraq (1931), which was only 12 ft. thick and localised in the Fertile Crescent, they conclude that the flood referred to by Noah was a local event.
