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To: Pan Paniscus
Yet many sciences have shown time and time again that a worldwide flood has never happened.

Yes we know about those "sciences". And surely those "sciences" have plausible explanations for how water runs thousands of feet uphill to form the Grand Canyon and the presence of aquatic fossils on tall mountain peaks far from any body of water. (sigh)

Records from many other cultures that predate the supposed deluge show no evidence of such happening.

Of course the presence of so many records from diverse cultures around the globe claiming a massive flood (global or superregional) at about the same time in history doesn't raise any red flags - must be coincidence. Why is it do the God haters always believe the records of other cultures and always reject the Scriptural account? Is it because the Jewish Torah is by orders of magnitude the best honored and faithfully preserved document in all of world history?

The fact that the Noah story was written around 600BCE

So you one of the dozen or so people who believe that. And I have this great ocean front property in Arizona.

Both Babylonian and Sumerian myths which predate the noachian flood tell pretty much the same story, indicating that the story of Noah was borrowed by the Biblical authors, with appropriate changes of course, and used as a fable.

Let's see your reasoning here. You gratuitously presuppose that the Genesis narratives were written after a certain convenient date, then you declare by fiat that the unknown author of Genesis looted these ideas from Babylonians and Sumerians. Then you just happen to know that these stories are fables. And, we can't also forget that the prevalence of this theme being kept around by so many different cultures is clear proof that it never happened. (Using the Up is Down and Cold is Wet hermeneutic)

The technology of the time could not have successfully accomplished what Noah was credited with.

Oh, now you happen to have a garage filled with technology of that era.

Hey, if you hate God and wish to think that you are nothing more than an accident of Chance, go right ahead. You are nothing but an deterministic animal. Your thoughts are nothing but chemical reactions. If you had a pizza for lunch, then your thoughts are based on whatever toppings you ordered.

If you are stupid enough to feel that you can pass off this anti-Semitic garbage as fact, then more power to you and your fellow travellers. I don't care to waste any more time with bigoted racists and Christophobes.

237 posted on 12/05/2004 6:57:45 PM PST by Reuben Hick
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To: Reuben Hick

"If you are stupid enough to feel that you can pass off this anti-Semitic garbage as fact, then more power to you and your fellow travellers. I don't care to waste any more time with bigoted racists and Christophobes"

Since when is it anti-Semite to advocate correct translation of the Torah?

Since when is it being a "Christophobe" to fight the cult of idolatry that is creationism?

If you are not going to waste any more time spouting your nonsense-we who still have brains thank you.


247 posted on 12/06/2004 5:21:34 AM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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