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Re: Geology from Outer Space
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Date: 
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 21:05:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ryan Farrington writes:
Dave! wrote:
...did the people in Sumer really
feel the waters of the Black Sea rising around them?  I know you're not
suggesting that they did, but I'm concerned that the more literal-minded
might use the Black Sea inundation as proof of a world-wide flood.

Here's my literal-mined response:  :-)
I liked the way James put it: "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."

  One might draw a distinction, however, between "had a marked impact on a
focus point of developing civilization" and "killed everything but those few
animals that one guy could stuff into an apparently Tardis-like ark."

8^)

   Dave!



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  Re: Geology from Outer Space
 
(...) Oh, come, come now. They didn't really mean that every SPECIES of animal went in the ark. Just every KIND. So there was plenty of room. And the kinds must have quick-evolved back into all the species... er, oops, I said a naughty word. There (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Geology from Outer Space
 
(...) Here's my literal-mined response: :-) I liked the way James put it: "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 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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