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Author Topic:   Is the Global Flood Feasible? Discussion Q&A
Oreopithecus
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Message 113 of 352 (2111)
01-14-2002 11:30 PM


Just finished reading this whole thread, and I thought I'd through my two cents worth in.
Seems everyone missed this comment by TrueCreation
1. What time period are we talking?
If you mean to imply what geologic time period like triassic, jurrasic, etc then I would have to say every time period, but If you are just asking how long ago it happend then I would have to say about 4,500 years ago.
Now as an Archaeology student, I find this strange considering 2500 BCE is smack dab in the middle of the Old Kingdom in Egypt and the Early Dynastic II period in Sumeria. I would love to know during the reign of which the Flood happened. pharoahhttp://touregypt.net/kings.htm
(Hint: there are still records from the 1st and 2nd Intermediate periods, so don't go choosing that one to quickly)

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Oreopithecus
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Message 138 of 352 (2438)
01-19-2002 1:26 AM


To tell you the truth this is one question that I have been meaning to ask, and I guess its time to ask it, what is the mothod used to date to know this is 'smack dab in the middle of the Old kingdom in Egypt'.
The Egyptians, as you know, had writting. They wrote the names of their pharoahs on the walls of their temples and monuments. From these written acounts by the Egypitans themselves we know for certain the dates of the pharoahs. The Sumerians also had writing, and did the same thing with their rulers. So there is no dispute over the Egyptian and Sumerian chronologies. See the Sumerian timelime for instance:
http://www.usfca.edu/westciv/Mesochro.html
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/TIMELINE.HTM
Thus as there is continues civilization during the time when the world was supposidly destroyed, the Genesis Flood is a myth.
And on the First Intermediate Period, see
http://www.arab.net/egypt/history/et_1stintermediate.html
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/digital_egypt/chronology/1stintermediateperkings.html (rulers during the 1st Intermediate Period)
http://gatewaytoancientegypt.users.btopenworld.com/firstint.htm
So Egyptian Civilization continued throughout the chaos of this period, so any attempt to put the Flood in here is useless. The bottom line is there is no way a global flood could have taken place in 2500 BCE. The continuation of the Egyptian and Sumerian civiliazation is the proof.

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