Flood Made Britain An Island 'In 24 Hours'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 9-25-2006 | Tim Hall

[killjoy]

Homo Britannicus

He said homo...

[Socratic]

A lake can be broad and hold lots of water and a lake's edge does not have to be a prominent ridge to exist - just enough to keep the water in. After all the Gulf of Mexico is not contained to the North by a ridge, but merely a land mass which is above sea level.

[GSlob]

if there was not enough water level differential [shallow lake with low shores as measured from the lake bottom], the water would drain slowly [not in 24 hours] - it would be nowhere near causing catastrophic erosion. And the nothern rim, or whatever remains of it, should still exist, even if under water.

[thomaswest]

You're guessing, conjecturring, and supposing. And you're calling it science.

Your alternative is exactly what? That {poof} something happened by a process that no one knows about?

That {poof} there was a talking snake? Never one seen ever since.

I agree with you that it is impossible to know how language started, but it seems to me understandable in terms of development of brain capacity, use of symbols, evolutionary development of the vocalization apparatus in our throats, and an obvious benefit for early humans in family/ tribal societies. It is interesting that writing is only about 8,000 years old.

[Candor7]

This will solidify British belief in its "manifeft deftiny" that it is an Island unto itself, and that an act of G_D created it over night.

[donmeaker]

The sudden flush of water through the channel, was mentioned years ago in "Sarum".

[donmeaker]

Why are kangaroos native to Australia, and not anywhere else?

G-d must have created them, and then put them there, which is both special creation and special delivery.

Darwin's experiments on the transmission of various forms of life by various means were extensive, though of course, not exhaustive.

Since many forms of life are common between Europe and Britain, one would expect that the sea barriers between them was recent.

A simple look at the sea floor shows great furrowing in the channel, especially in the narrows.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I wasn't aware the Rove weather machine was operational back then.

It was operated by that little known ancestral offshoot, Homo rovicus.

[patton]

People who can only imagine one way to spell, are linguistically challenged.

[Socratic]

Your arguments do not, "hold water." You seem to know that the differential between this supposed lake and the prevailing sea level was a minor thing. Something for which you offer no evidence. Secondly, the proposed Northern shore would not have to be anything other than the Continental Shelf in the current North Sea area, if the ancient sea level were low enough. How you insist that there must be some great defining Northern ridge is beyond me. It could just be a slight rise - just enough to contain the waters of the lake. When the supposed breach occurred to the South, the defining aspect of its scoring effect would be the difference in water levels. For which you, again, offer no proof as to how low the prevailing sea level was at that time.

[LexBaird]

Vertical walls of Marble Canyon. No rubble lying at the low valley floor built up to a height one would expect from eons of erosion over time. Evidence of a large inland sea in southern Utah.

There is geological evidence that prehistoric Lake Bonneville drained north in a cataclysmic flood into the Snake River, via Cache Valley and the Portneuf Gap.

[SunkenCiv]

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[thomaswest]

The accounts written here make no sense. If the author is unaware of the great Rhein Graben valley through the middle of Europe he is ignorant. If the author imagines there was a great Cenozoic lake in the North Sea area, he will have to explain why this did not drain via the channels seen north-west of the Orkneys. Or via channels north-east toward Spitsbergen.

The account does not make sense.

[Jeff Gordon]

The flood would have taken place between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago..

I learned, right here on FreeRepublic, that the earth is only 6000 years ago. /s

[norton]

Let me understand this:
you want a flood to create a vast channel between California and New England..right?

Not gonna get too much agreement here on that one...there are lots of FReepers in; Idaho, Montana, Ohio, Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, New mexico, Utah, both Dakotas, Michigan (presumably the epicenter), and the other non coastal states (I'm assuming also that Washington and Oregon are part of 'greater California').

Probably better to hold out for an earthquake on one side and advancing glaciation on the other.

[Smokin' Joe]

The northern rim had to be high for the lake to be deep and hold a lot of water. Low rim = low water-holding capacity = not enough erosion. And a high rim would be difficult to submerge and erode, and it would be right there as a very prominent underwater feature somewhere in the North Sea.

I'd need to check the dates, but it could have melted. Ice bound lakes were present in the US as well, just in the last glacial epoch, check out Lake Agassiz or Lake Souris in North Dakota. The ice sheet changed the course of the Missouri as well.

Only relatively small relief beach ridges or wave cut terraces would have survived any shoreline on land, and those would be at an altitude reflecting the water level in the lake. That should be verifiable if it existed.

[blam]

Sarum Missal

[nmh]

Still they won't believe it.

Evidence doesn't matter to them.

[bannie]

Those cliffs looked much different when I saw them: It was from the windows of a Chinook Helicopter, and they shook around alot! :-)