The Antediluvian Adventures of Noah's Boys: 1. Escape from Mother Earth

How do you keep a positive outlook when the whole world is going off a cliff?   In this classic adventure for all ages, an aging patriarch relates his thrilling experiences in the Last Days of the Old World, an antediluvian time of decline and impending catastrophe much like our own.   A budding young inventor, Japheth’s peaceful plans are shattered when calamities strike, and his life becomes filled with perplexing moral questions, conflicting desires, and a seemingly endless series of dangerous challenges.   Bolstered by his solid upbringing at the feet of the patriarchs, a healthy sense of humor, and the support of his faithful brothers Shem and Ham, Japheth survives sudden disasters, resists seductive beauties, and narrowly escapes death from monstrous behemoths.   When corrupt politicians betray their homeland, the sturdy brothers fight, but are taken as hostages to the powerful but doomed City of Mother Earth.   Determined to do what is right,...

Noah’s Boys in the City of Mother Earth is a thrilling tale set in the perilous Last Days before Noah’s Flood, a time remarkably like our own.   In some of their adventures, the heroes of the story encounter giant behemoths, huge animals that seem identical to dinosaurs.   Could people actually have co-existed with dinosaurs? How else could you explain the following descriptions?   “Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox.   See now, his strength is in his hips, and his strength is in his hips, and his power is in his stomach muscles.   He moves his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.   His bones are like beams of bronze, his ribs like bars of iron.   He is the first of the ways of God; only He who made him can bring near His sword.   Surely the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.   He lies under the lotus trees, in a covert of reeds an...

Noah’s Boys in the City of Mother Earth is a thrilling tale of inventions, adventure, and romance set in the Last Days of the Antediluvian World, a time of stubborn wickedness and violently conflicting worldviews, just like today.   As described in the first book of the Bible, God utterly destroyed the world with a great cataclysm, deluging it with water for a full year.   When the water subsided, everything was changed, and the only animals or people that survived were those that entered Noah’s Ark. But isn’t that just a myth—a fairy tale?   Hasn’t science proven that all life was the result of “billions and billions” of years of purposeless evolution?   Lifeless matter spontaneously produced living cells that reproduced.   Over millions of years of accidental mutations, death, and “survival of the fittest”, diverging species became more complex until intelligent human life finally emerged.   We all know the story.   And the fossil record proves i...

Noah’s Boys in the City of Mother Earth is an exciting tale of adventure and romance set in the years before Noah’s Ark and Noah’s Flood, the catastrophic deluge that drowned the wicked culture of Noah’s day, and drastically changed the face of the entire earth.   But wasn’t Noah’s Flood just a made-up fairy tale, a religious myth?   After all, we have all been taught that people are actually the product of millions and millions of years of Darwinian evolution, and that the cosmos developed over “billions and billions of years.” The dogma is a familiar one: first, a Big Bang, and then a slow, gradual upward ascent from inanimate matter to living cells, and finally to complex animal species and mankind.   Such an intricate and delicate process of minor genetic changes occurring over a geologically vast period of time must somehow be evident in the geological record, right?   But what do the rocks show?  Are some things so obvious we might overlook them? ...

Noah was a real person whose importance in history cannot be overemphasized.   Moses, the writer of the first five books of the Bible (the Torah), believed in him, as did Jesus Christ.   If Noah was only a myth, as it is popular for academics to assert, then Moses and Jesus were both frauds, and any faith we have is pointless. But what do we really know about Noah?   The answer is: quite a bit.   While some cite ancient Sumerian fragments of the Gilgamesh epic that seem to parallel Noah’s story, our only reliable source of knowledge on Noah is actually the Bible itself. Noah was the key character in the story of the Great Flood (Genesis chapts 5-9), and altogether his name appears in the Bible 46 times. Noah’s Genealogy --Noah was the tenth patriarch, and named by his father Lamech as one who would “comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands,” (Gen 5:29) --Noah, his wife, his three sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth) and their wives entered the ark: ...

The Hydraulic Ram Japheth’s Stream Pump is featured in Noah’s Boys in the City of Mother Earth , and is a pump powered by the flow of the stream itself.   Whether or not Japheth was its original first inventor, his pump seems to have been an antediluvian predecessor of the modern hydraulic ram.   His pump was based on the principle that air may be compressed like a spring, but that water is incompressible, and conducts force. History of the Hydraulic Ram: The hydraulic ram has been named one of the 55 most important inventions in the history of the world ( People’s Cyclopedia , 1879). For more than 200 years, the hydraulic ram has been a major contributor to improved health and sanitation, as well as to crop production, gardens, and landscaping. While a manually controlled form of hydraulic ram was invented in 1772 (John Whitehurst of Cheshire, England), when the inventor Joseph Montgolfier (more famed with his brother Jacques as the inventors of the hot air balloon) ad...

A Wartime Adventure Catastrophes may strike anyone at any time , as Noah’s Boys discovered.   But whether or not they are later seen as an Adventure has to do with the End of the Story.   My own father experienced a personal catastrophe when he was shot down over Nazi Germany.   Later, however, he described it as “My Wartime Adventures.”    Here is a part of his story. “For our first actual mission over enemy territory in September of 1944, we were given a “used” B-17-E: the patched-up veteran of many missions.   The ground crew said it was a lucky one.   Very early that morning we joined up with a big formation of B-17’s.    I recall looking out my Co-Pilot window as we first flew into “flak.”   I saw the B-17 on my right hand get hit by Ack-Ack and explode on the bomb run.   It went down fast —and no parachutes appeared!   Ten men were doomed!   That was a sobering first vision of combat. Being winter, m...