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RickJB
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Message 6 of 188 (383591)
02-08-2007 4:23 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Hyroglyphx
02-08-2007 1:57 PM


I saw a documentary about this hypothesis a few years ago.
At the time I was aware that it divided the scientific community not so much in terms of its possibility, but in terms of the time at which it might have happened.
Furthermore, there is also some consensus that the entire mediterranean underwent a similar type of flood (though the straights of Gibraltar) at some point after the last ice age.
The idea of such floods doesn't trouble scienitsts - they are physically plausible. There is no cover up! What does trouble them is the idea of a physically impossible global flood 6000 years ago.
As for of the "historicity" of the Bible. Any text, no matter how mythical, can provide a certain amount of historical information. In that sense the Bible can be considered to be no different from the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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RickJB
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Message 23 of 188 (383771)
02-09-2007 4:33 AM
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02-08-2007 6:02 PM


Re: Discovery channrl
Matters of both faith and geology aside I'm comfortable with the possibility that some sort of physically plausible flood informed the literature of the region.
One must also consider the fact that if some kind of large, localized flood did take place it would, from the perspective of a bronze age civilisation, seem as if the whole world were flooding.

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RickJB
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Message 119 of 188 (385099)
02-14-2007 3:52 AM
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02-13-2007 12:34 PM


Re: Exegesis
nj writes:
Secondly, the Flood was supposed to have killed every living thing, save the inhabitants of the Ark, so I'm not sure why you incredulously said, relying upon geysers to produce 200% of the water on earth today results in a heat exchange high enough to kill virtually every living organism yes?
This line of argument doesn't help you!
The flood was supposed to have killed every living thing due to heat, yet somehow Noah and his animals were exempted? How could this be? Goddidit?
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RickJB
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Message 128 of 188 (385205)
02-14-2007 3:53 PM
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02-14-2007 12:35 PM


Re: Uplift R Us
nj writes:
Do these fossils conform to any kind of geological pattern?
Could every mountain formed been near water to account for fossilized aquatic lifeforms?
The simple answers are "yes" and "yes". Every mountain is part of the very fabric of the planet. They are made of of material that his been distorted, heated, uplifted, eroded, deposited and re-uplifted in a cycle that has lasted billions of years. One has to get a handle on the sheer magnitude of the time involved.
The rock cycle.
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