The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-05-18
EVE MADE WINE;
ADAM GOT DRUNK
WAS REASON THEY HAD TO
LEAVE THE GARDEN OF
EDEN.
NOAH WAS A FAKE
ARK ONLY CROSSED A FLOOD
ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE LAST
IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY,
sAfs wILLCoCKE.
NOAH WAS A FAKE

NEW YORK, May lr-Modern sx-
plantations of the events of Biblical
times. beginning with the departure
from the Garden of Eden Of Adam
and Eve. and covering the period up
to the passage Of the river Jordan
were given today in "a lecture before
the National Training school of the
Young Wornen's Christian association,
on East Fifty-second street by Sir
William Wiilcocke. K. G. g. NJ, the
noted engineer. designer and builder
OF the AsSuan dam. and perfector of
the irrigation system of Mesopotamia
Sir william has spent the greater part
of an active life in Egypt and Meso-
potamia. and has n intimate acquain-
lance with all places made famous in
Biblical history
Sir William told his audience that
Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden
not a. a result of eating apples. or
any other fruit growing on trees. but
because Eve hit on 81 plan for making
wine out or The bounteous grape sup--
ply in tho Garden OF Eden, and caus-
ing Adam TO become drinking man.
lie declared that if the commonly ac-
cepted idea of the Garden of Eden
was true. Adam and Eve would never
have left IT..
The food. which has made Noah's
reputation as the first great lifesaver.
he declared. was not any bigger than
any number of modern foods and II
has been duplicated often in the Mis-
sissippi valley, Sir William said. Fur
thermore, the ark never rested on top
of Mount Ararat. The food story any
many other Biblical tales which Sir
William thinks are far from the truth,
have resulted from mistakes by trans
lation in trying to decipher languages
that had long been dead when the
books Of the Bibe were written.
No Big Food.
Taking UP the food episode, Sir Will
fam said that IL the inundation has
been so extensive as to leave the ark
stranded on top Of Mount Ararat, the
forty days' rain would have had to
yield precipitation of FIVE thousand
inches day. which is quite a shower.
Sir. William said that the ancient
food sufferers really thought the in
undaAion had covered the entire world,
SO they commenced building high tow
ers TO escape future foundations. The
tower of Babel was one of the first
Of these.
Sir William said that one Of the
great mistakes Of the ancient historians
is TO have Moses leading the children
of Israel across the Red sea II Moses
HHd gone 10 the ftFu sea III the TIME
he is credited with he would have
had to lead his flock, In which were
many children, across forty -four miles
of desert in. twentY-four hours
Moses actually crossed the river
Nile, Sir William said, and the way
he led his followers across on dry
land was to build dyke. When the
Israelites had crossed Moses broke the
dyke and the Egyptian army. follow
ing them, was drowned. In explaining
the tale that Moses turned water into
blood, and slew the fish. Sir William
said that when the Nile overfows into
its branches 1t is red, and the fsh
come from far below for the excellent
food then obtainable. The construc-
ton of the dyke left the water In the
branch so low that the fish were killed
by the millions.