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Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades
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Posted on 03/09/2017 8:41:09 AM PST by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin

This is a great article!

I grew up in the Tri-Cities at the top of the bend of the Columbia just before it turns West.


21 posted on 03/09/2017 9:45:59 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks for the post.

It was fascinating.

When NatGeo isn’t moralizing about stuff they shouldn’t they have some really good articles.


22 posted on 03/09/2017 9:50:42 AM PST by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: drjimmy

Velikovsky discusses the multiple floods - the parting of the Red Sea being the most prominent one he references - along with their probable cause (near passby of Venus). All of which is recent enough in documented world history to not need 13,000 years of silliness. :)


23 posted on 03/09/2017 10:22:37 AM PST by detsaoT
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To: Adder

Well, we all know now that the science is settled. It was human activity and carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that caused this to create global warming and climate change. (sarc)


24 posted on 03/09/2017 10:56:01 AM PST by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: BenLurkin

The hills where I lived in Moscow, Idaho were current ripples from this.


25 posted on 03/09/2017 11:06:00 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: drjimmy

Yes, and now that he is dead anyone can say anything about the theory. What is funny is that NatGeo actually published this article with so many tidbits like:

“Bretz was making arguments, and no one was going into the field to see anything,” Baker said. “They were just countering his arguments with theory.” And because scientists are first and foremost human beings, they’re loathe to change their theories or their minds because of mere data.

...But that might just compound the error, because it neglects the fact that scientists almost always favor their own theories over others’, and rarely are those theories completely right....

...The authorities in the field were invested in a particular theory, and contrary evidence was dismissed without an adequate hearing...

But yeah that was the 20th century, good thing for us that we can sleep like babies in the 21st century - you know, since all of our scientist are 100% accurate and honest now.


26 posted on 03/09/2017 11:23:08 AM PST by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: BenLurkin

Amazing vistas!


27 posted on 03/09/2017 11:37:11 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: G Larry

Do you know if anyone ever searches the gravel piles for Gold, etc?


28 posted on 03/09/2017 11:38:16 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: detsaoT

Worlds in Collision is one of my favorites. I think I’ll reread it again! Venus has been very big and bright the last couple of weeks.


29 posted on 03/09/2017 11:54:21 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: VaeVictis
Yes, and now that he is dead anyone can say anything about the theory.

Except before Bretz died, he accepted that there had been more than just one megaflood:
This wouldn’t have come as a complete surprise to Bretz. By the early 1950s he’d noticed that some scabland features appeared to be more weathered than others, and in his last paper on the subject, in 1969, he argued that there had been at least seven scabland floods.


30 posted on 03/09/2017 12:17:53 PM PST by drjimmy
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To: BenLurkin

At the southern end of the flood scablands is the Wallula gap. It is a 2 kilometer opening in the solid basalt walls that the Columbia River flows today. When the Missoula flood hit the Wallula gap, the volume of flood was so great that it started to back up an form a lake in the lower scablands. At peak flow it is estimated the volume of water flowing through the Wallua gap to be 10 million cubic meters per second.


31 posted on 03/09/2017 1:34:05 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: BenLurkin

Bttt!


32 posted on 03/09/2017 4:12:39 PM PST by Pagey (8 years of MISERY, Thanks to Valerie Jarrett. Wretched human.)
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To: MHGinTN

Never heard of it.

Gold panning in Washington is a pretty limited hobby.


33 posted on 03/10/2017 6:25:31 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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Note: this topic is from 03/09/2017. Thanks BenLurkin.

34 posted on 07/16/2018 1:36:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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