One poster wrote:

A record of the Creation and Flood are also to be found preserved in the ancient chinese written language (Pictographs). For instance, the Chinese characters for `to Create' consist of the characters for; `dust', `mouth' (=person), `movement of life', and `able to walk'. The Chinese characters for `boat' consist of the Chinese Characters for: `Vessel', `eight', and `mouth'. The Chinese word for `to continue' or `to hand down' is `eight persons' with three wavy lines underneath (making it appear as if the `eight people' are on water).

Secret + man + garden + alive = devil devil + trees + cover = tempter eight + united + earth = total total + water = flood eight + Person = common to all Woman + Trees = desire, covet Serpent + Trees = negative, not, not Noble Person + Sheep = beautiful lance + hand = me + sheep = righteousness

There are many others. Please note that the origin of the chinese pictographs (their written language) precedes the later Chinese tales of Creation, which are quite different than the Genesis account. It seems that while they were fabricating their creation story many centuries later, little did they know that their ancestors had preserved the Genesis account within their `alphabet'!

Chris responded:

There are many errors in the above, some of them quite fundamental.

If I may state my conclusion first -- the above material shows no real understanding of Chinese characters. None of the links with the story of Genesis are even remotely plausible.

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