provide creationists with a complete thereon, and he transcribed it and ARCHAEOLOGY AND reconstruction of archaeology. sinned owing to it; for it contained CHRONOLOGY the teaching of the Watchers in John Kaplan, accordance with which they used Dear Editor, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to observe the omens of the sun and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. moon and stars in all the signs of The articles in CEN Tech. J., 11(1) heaven. And he wrote it down and by John Osgood and Ralph Pacini said nothing regarding it; for he concerning the history of ancient Egypt was afraid to speak to about as it relates to the prompt me to it lest he should be angry with him recommend reading the book on account of it' (the Watchers Centuries of Darkness, which though OF :36 being the sons of God in Genesis not a Christian publication is fair.1 6:12). As background to what I wish to Dear Editor, Extra-Scriptural legends such as say, Immanuel Velikovsky must be first those in Jubilees and other apocryphal mentioned. His 1950 Worlds in In The Genesis Flood (Appendix books are at least dubious. This Collision earned the wrath of scientists II)1 eight reasons are given for not particular one about Kainam was through his proposal that Venus began accepting the chronology of Genesis incorporated in the Genesis as a comet expelled from Jupiter in 11, seven of which are irrelevant. The account by inserting him in the historical times, causing geological and one which looks as if it may contain Messianic line between environmental disasters as it some substance is (2), regarding and as Cainan, from where, approached the Earth. His Cainan of Luke 3:36. The authors presumably, Luke recorded him in astronomical scenario fouled academic concede that it is only their conclusion Christ's ancestry. opinion against what he subsequently that Whitcomb and Morris are to be proposed in Earth in Upheaval 'the Septuagint does give us the full commended in urging moderation (catastrophic geology) and in Ages in list of names as they appeared in when extending the past by inserting Chaos (a reconstruction of ancient the original Hebrew text: but since unspecified numbers of phantom Egyptian and Palestinian history which the years for these as patriarchs into the Genesis gene­ agreed with the Biblical account rather given in the Septuagint are alogies. However, this red herring of than the generally accepted saga). obviously false, we have no way Cainan's absence from Genesis, which There seems always to have been of determining how old Cainan they seem to have originated, has ever a cynical attitude among the public was at the birth of his first son. since been regurgitated by one author towards psychiatrists, and Velikovsky's Thus, this one omission, even if after another. having been such was played upon by there are no others, makes it It seems incredible that qualified his critics. This attitude he related to impossible to date the Flood.' scientists who accept the Scriptural II Peter 3:4-7 in his final book, (p. 475) revelation of the creation of the Mankind in Amnesia, published after The footnote gives an impressive universe in six days can stumble over his death in 1979. Ironically, the list of the ancient versions of Genesis the straightforward chronology in following year Alvarez' ideas about which omit Cainan at the appropriate Genesis 11 (Hebrew text). dinosaur extinction opened the place, virtually demolishing the floodgates to the respectability of authenticity of their argument! One REFERENCE cosmic catastrophes, doubtless source cited in favour of including because the dinosaur extinction Cainan between Arpachshad and 1. Whitcomb, J. C. and Morris, H. M, 1961. supposedly happened millions of years 2 Shelah is the apocryphal book of The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record before the time of man. Jubilees.2 and Its Scientific Implications, The In 1982 British astronomers Victor In the Apocrypha and Pseudi- Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Clube and Bill Napier in The Cosmic Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 3 pigrapha translated by R. H. Charles 2. The books of Jubilees and are from Serpent connected the mass (1913), Jubilees 8:1-5 mentions the same religious tradition. Jude 14, 15 extinctions scattered throughout the Kainam as the son of Arpachshad by appear to be a quote from Enoch 1:9; the fossil record to such events as comets Raseuja, daughter of Susan, daughter traditional orthodox explanation is that Jude or meteors striking the Earth.4 The was not quoting this book but both refer to a of Elam. Arpachshad taught Kainam common tradition. This may be the case for book also touched upon ancient history, the art of writing; at some stage the Kainam of Jubilees and Luke's Cainan. especially of Egypt, and here the case Kainam was taken up by Centuries of found a writing which former Derel Briarley, Darkness. generations had carved on the Newcastle upon Tyne, rock, and he read what was ENGLAND. 328 CEN Tech. J., vol. 11, no. 3, 1997