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Re: Geology from Outer Space
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:30:52 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. The ten dynasties
> listed before then tell of men with extremely long life-spans, and
> questionable details attributed to them. From a biblical perspective, after
> the flood of Noah's day, people migrated to different parts of the globe.
> It is quite likely that the well-documented dynasties date back to the time
> one group of people migrated to Asia. The ten previous dynasties could very
> well be faded memories of patriarchs before the flood, when people lived for
> 900 years or so.
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> This theory can be reasonably corroborated when one examines the histories
> of other peoples that sprang up seemingly for no reason about that
> time--Sumerians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Indians. Each of these other
> peoples possessed a history containing ten patriarchs in their prehistory.
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> 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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> --Ryan
Dang, I answered this one in your email. Everyone will have to be mystified
as to my response. :-(
Oh, I'll cover the very last point again because it's quick: the Sumerians,
Egyptian, and Indians all developed their cultures along a major river
valley that floods regularly (Indus, Tigris-Euprates, Nile). There's your
flood mythos. All are older cultures than Judaism, so it may be the latter
that did some borrowing!
Bruce
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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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