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Re: Geology from Outer Space
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Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:13:25 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ryan Farrington writes:
> Bruce Schlickbernd:
> > As I mentioned before, recorded Chinese geneaologies go back further than
> > 6,000 years. That's why the 10,000 year fudge-factor appeared.
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> But that can be reconciled with 6,000 years. When one examines the early
> Chinese dynasties, one can find that precisely documented dynasties only go
> back as far as about 2000 B.C. The first true Chinese dynasty was started
> then (4,000 years ago) by someone who reportedly "sweetened the waters"
> making the land habitable after a wide-spread flood.
This is an example of what I mentioned earlier about Creationists altering
fact to fit their belief system (which should not be dignified with the term
theory or hypothesis).
> Sumerians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Indians. Each of these other
> peoples possessed a history containing ten patriarchs in their prehistory.
> On another note, all of those groups of people had stories in which a god or
> gods created the world, and a flood covered the earth.
If by "Indians" you're referring to Native Americans, then you're
referring to a group of people so broad and diverse that no useful
generalization can be made about their disparate belief systems. If you're
referring to the people of India, that's another matter, but you're still
not being very specific.
However, all of the cultures you list existed near bodies of water that
flood more or less regularly, so a flood myth can be easily explained. You
might ask instead why the Noachian Flood myth so closely mirrors a much
earlier Sumerian myth, even down to "two of each kind of animal."
Dave!
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| (...) Both Nova and National Geographic have recently done pieces on new findings that suggest a catastrophic flood of the Black Sea did indeed occur x thousands of years ago. I can't really remember the details, but I believe that the event is (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Bruce Schlickbernd: (...) But that can be reconciled with 6,000 years. When one examines the early Chinese dynasties, one can find that precisely documented dynasties only go back as far as about 2000 B.C. The first true Chinese dynasty was started (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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