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Originally posted by wmscott:
Peter
If you would read the first post in this thread, you will see that I accept the age of the earth and have little in common with YEC other than a belief in the deluge.
All I was trying to point out to axial-thingamabob was that
the existence of catastrophic flooding in the history of
the earth is not the issue with the Biblical account of the
flood.
Most of us here accept that it is most likely grounded in
a true event, but that it has been turned into a more compact
form, suitable for story telling+shouting the power of God
story i.e. it has been fictionalised for some purpose or
other.
Personally I am happy to accept the idea of glacial meltdowns
and ice-dam breaking causeing catastrophic flooding during
a several thousand year period starting some 11-12000 years
ago. I've read about these things, and interpretations of
the evidences seem credible to me.
I think the issue might be that YEC's have a harder time
with their faith than the rest of us ... and need to confirm
it to themselves.