Posted on 07/07/2006 10:05:17 PM PDT by freedom44
Nice try. Send it to Art Bell.
It is good to read books, too. Rehwinkel - The Flood, published by Concordia Publishing House. That book is dated but has plenty of interesting information.
Ping for reading later.
You probably don't believe that Moses parted the Red Sea and led the Israelites out of Egypt.
And that the pursuing Egyptians and their chariots were wiped out by the sea once the Israelites reached safety.
You probably wouldn't believe it if you saw it with your own eyes: http://www.wyattarchaeology.com/red_sea.htm
What is sad is that so many folks are so easily duped. Anyone with any background whatever in geology would see those photos and recognize a shale outcropping. If I saw it, I'd be interested to know what fossils might be found in that shale, and whether there were small crystals of pyrite in it.
Yet, let some YEC website publish a photo of something that looks vaguely like wood, and so many people are so eager to accept that. It's amazing.
We're apparently failing, in our primary and secondary schools, to teach even the basics of geology.
A funny thing keeps happening when people come up with theories that stories from the Bible are really just unrealistic fables. Researchers prove them wrong.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/soc/EDOM.asp
Your saying that the animals left the ark "2 x 2." This tells me that you are ignorant of Scripture. Perhaps you should read the biblical account before you trash it.
FWIW, Noah brought 7 pairs of each "clean" animal. It's likely that in the year or so that Noah and his family were in the ark, the animals had offspring.
Why has your knowledge of Scripture not changed since you were a child?
This is a Conservative web site "Liberalartian".
The decendants of Noah and his children.
In southern Alaska there is a cave, from which an individual was recovered. He was dated over 10,000 years old.
mtDNA shows some of his descendants can still be found on the west coasts of North and South America, and a few places elsewhere.
How do you explain that? No replacement by Noah's mtDNA.
And this is only one of the findings of archaeology in the western US that disputes the notion of a global flood at the generally appointed date ca. 2300 BC.
They'll likely as not tell you everything was covered with water.
You might check out what Purina is selling you as dog food (dog = carnivore) & toss that back at the debate as well.
You, too, suffer from biblical illiteracy, instead choosing to rely on something you heard in a children's song or a TV sitcom. Perhaps you should read Scripture a bit more thoroughly before you ridicule it.
Your being wrong about how many of each "kind" of animal Noah had in the ark tells me that you very well may be wrong about what you believe Scripture says about other things. Wouldn't it be prudent of you to study this book before forming negative a priori opinions of it?
Global warming. Bush's fault!
As a side note: today, something like 80% of the world's population lives within 200 ft of sea level...
That was many millions of years ago. The commonly accepted date for the flood was about 2300 BC (with some estimates a little earlier; see below). Does not compute!
The date of the global flood:
2252 BC -- layevangelism.com
2304 BC -- Answers in Genesis (+/- 11 years).
2350 BC -- Morris, H. Biblical Creationism. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1993.
2370 BC -- TalkOrigins.com
3537 BC -- Setterfield (1999)
Moses, a prince of ancient Egypt, wrote a Pakistani myth? Interesting...
Genesis says the "mountains of Ararat" not mount Ararat!
??? Did you actually say "o(u)r closest genetic cousins are dogs and pigs"???? Wrong! Try chimps.
Our elemental make up is also way off from other indiginous life...
Wrong!
Look it up...there is no missing link...
No need to "look it up!" See below for a transitional (or missing link). Note its position in the chart which follows (hint--in the upper center).
Where do you do your research, the creationist websites?
Site: Koobi Fora (Upper KBS tuff, area 104), Lake Turkana, Kenya (4, 1)
Discovered By: B. Ngeneo, 1975 (1)
Estimated Age of Fossil: 1.75 mya * determined by Stratigraphic, faunal, paleomagnetic & radiometric data (1, 4)
Species Name: Homo ergaster (1, 7, 8), Homo erectus (3, 4, 7), Homo erectus ergaster (25)
Gender: Female (species presumed to be sexually dimorphic) (1, 8)
Cranial Capacity: 850 cc (1, 3, 4)
Information: Tools found in same layer (8, 9). Found with KNM-ER 406 A. boisei (effectively eliminating single species hypothesis) (1)
Interpretation: Adult (based on cranial sutures, molar eruption and dental wear) (1)
See original source for notes:
Source: http://www.mos.org/evolution/fossils/fossilview.php?fid=33
Source: http://wwwrses.anu.edu.au/environment/eePages/eeDating/HumanEvol_info.html
> (Take a close look at the variety of geographies represented on the x-axis of the below chart.)
Interesting chart. However, two of the lines are bogus:
* Destruction by water
* Humans saved
Both of these are simply inheirant to the whole notion of a flood. If it was a flood, of *course* there was destruction by water. Since we're here, clearly humans were saved. Take those two lines out, and the chart looks substantially less newsworthy.
Q. What's harder than getting a pregnant Brontosaurus into the ark?
A. Getting a Brontosaurus pregnant in the ark!
(Noah! Make them stop. I'm getting seasick!)
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