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Re: Geology from Outer Space
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Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:26:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ryan Farrington writes:
> > 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.
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> 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."
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> Dave!
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
hypothesized to have occured as a result of tectonic movements that allowed the
Mediteranean to flow through a fissure into the Black Sea basin. One of the
scientists in the Nova episode commented that, in the scenario being considered,
the flood could have displaced settlement at the rate of a mile a day.
Submersibles have been used to find settlement remains some distance from the
present coastline. This of course doesn't prove anything in itself, but it is
interesting that the scientific community is beginning to lend credence to the
possibility of a catastrophic flood of some nature that had a marked impact on a
focus point of developing civilization.
james
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| (...) I've seen bits about that on Good Morning America and now and then on CNN, but I'm not up on the latest info. What I recall is that the water flow into the Black Sea exceeded the rate over Niagara falls for a period (if I remember correctly) (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) 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). (...) If by "Indians" you're referring to Native Americans, then (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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