You SEEM to be explaining why the continents have to be at their present locations in 800 years but it makes no sense. You put the tower of Babel at 4000 years ago then you say the Phoenicians were sailing some 800 years later, but none of that means the continents had to have moved to their present locations in the interim that I can see.
What does tectonic movement have to do with the tower of babel anyway?
That is based on your statement, a few posts above, to the effect that:
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Having the continents in one place explains things like how the animals got home after the great flood and how humans scattered after the Tower of Babel was destroyed.
This implies that the continents were all together at the time of the tower, which I am placing at about 4,000 years ago.
I understand it to have started either during or shortly after the Flood. That's 4300 years ago.
Not unless Noah and kin managed to produce enough people to reconstitute a civilization capable of supporting themselves and doing massive engineering projects in just 50 years. I gave them the benefit of the doubt, at 350 years. Even that's not possible.
That's 1100 years until the Phoenicians started sailing according to your timetable. The continents would have separated quite a distance by then though not to the present location. Why do you assume it would have to be that far?
From 4,000 years ago to 3,200 years ago you are saying that the continents spread enough that a previously landlocked area formed the Mediterranean sea AND the people adjacent to that new sea learned seafaring? With the water level approaching that fast I'd have guessed they'd still be running for the hills!
ABE: I think I know the answer, it just came to me. You've always pictured the Phoenicians sailing around in the world just as it is today, but the ocean distances could very well have been much less between the destinations of the Phoenicians than they are today.
You still have to do all the tectonic movements in a scant 800 years. People don't develop seafaring cultures until they have a sea to play on. You have the continents together about 4,000 years ago and the oceans and seas by 3,200 years ago. In that time the continents had to have assumed their approximate modern positions. That's just not feasible.
You started out on this thread saying it could be done in several thousand years, and that was shown to be impossible. Now you're trying to defend the same events in a scant 800 or so years.
Really, there is only so much nonsense I can believe all at once, and you have far exceeded that limit. Don't you have any connection to reality at all?
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