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| Allegorical or a True Historical event? |
The story of Noah, the ark, and the Flood in Genesis 6-9 is one of the most famous and controversial passages in the entire Bible. The story, centered around a global cataclysm and a floating wooden DNA zoo, has captured the imagination of people for millennia. Until modern times, most Christians assumed the story referred to an actual worldwide event that happened in the relatively recent past, and this interpretation of the Flood continues to be a central feature of young-earth creationism. However, the discoveries of modern science, as well as an explosion of new knowledge about the ancient world of the Bible, have decisively challenged whether this interpretation is the best reading of the text. This includes the work of many Christian scholars and scientists who were (and continue to be) guided by a belief that all truth is God’s truth, that Scripture is inspired, and that the testimony of nature should not be ignored. MORE
| 2348 BC | Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood. | |
| 1863 | Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge. | |
| 1876 | Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife‘s village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War. | |
| 1901 | Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea. | |
| 1914 | German Field Marshal Friedrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans’ 35,000 in two weeks of fighting. | |
| 1918 | Chile and Peru sever relations. | |
| 1921 | Hirohito becomes regent of Japan. | |
| 1923 | Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences. | |
| 1930 | An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people. | |
| 1939 | Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim. | |
| 1946 | The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government. | |
| 1947 | The Big Four meet to discuss the German and European economy. | |
| 1951 | A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea. | |
| 1955 | The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel. | |
| 1963 | The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. | |
| 1964 | Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency. | |
| 1986 | As President Ronald Reagan announces the Justice Department’s findings concerning the Iran-Contra affair; secretary Fawn Hall smuggles important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office. | |
| 1987 | Typhoon Nina hits the Philippines with 165 mph winds and a devastating storm surge and causes over 1,030 deaths. | |
| 1992 | The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to partition the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, beginning Jan. 1, 1993. | |
| 2008 |
Sri Lanka is hit by Cyclone Nisha, bringing the highest rainfall the area had seen in 9 decades; 15 people die, 90,000 are left homeless.
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Born on November 25
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| 1844 | Carl Benz, pioneer of early motor cars. | |
| 1896 | Virgil Thompson, American composer (Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All). | |
| 1910 | Alwin Nikolais, choreographer. | |
| 1913 | Lewis Thomas, physician and author (The Lives of a Cell). | |
| 1914 | Joe DiMaggio, Hall of Fame baseball star who led the New York Yankees to ten World Series. | |
| 1939 | Shelagh Delaney, playwright (A Taste of Honey). | |
| 1942 | Bob Lind, singer, songwriter who was an important influence in the 1960s folk rock movement in the US and the UK (“Elusive Butterfly”). | |
| 1945 | Gail Collins, journalist; the first woman to serve as the editorial page editor of The New York Times. | |
| 1953 | Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron Corp.; convicted of multiple felony charges in 2006, relating to Enron’s financial collapse. | |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy Jr., elder son of US Pres. John F. Kennedy (assassinated three days before JFK Jr.’s third birthday); co-founded George magazine in 1995; died in a plane crash, July 16, 1999. | |
| 1971 | Christina Applegate, actress (Married . . . with Children, Samantha Who? TV series). | |
| 1981 | Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of US Pres. George W. Bush; she and her sororal twin sister were the first twin children of a US president; presently (2013) a special correspondent to NBC’s Today Show and a contributor to NBC Nightly News. | |
| 1986 | Amber Hagerman, whose kidnapping and murder in Jan. 1996 led to the development of the AMBER Alert system to notify surrounding communities when a child is reported missing or abducted. | |
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