Posted on 08/23/2006 5:58:47 PM PDT by blam
I'd love to see a wall of water that size-from the safety of an airplane or helicopter, quite a bit higher!
That's a reasonable conjecture.
My biases just tend toward otherwise, much to most of the time.
It's probably safe to say that Moses on the mountains involved some natural lava, fire, brimstone.
But then Scripture characterizes God Himself as causing the mountains to melt. I don't think we know what that means in all cases.
Ahhhh.
I have been thrilled by the discovery of chariot wheels etc. on the Sinai side of the crossing across the RED sea.
The old notion that they crossed the REED sea during a nice hot wind storm was so laughable. Right, Pharoah and all his armies and horses drowned in 4 inches of water! Grope, grope.
Thought this thread might be of interest to you.
I !THINK! Las Vegas Dave has a similar impression of a slight or better tweaking up of various subtle levels of disclosure in the UFO field in recent months. More programs airing and reairing and another level of detail being disclosed. But I need to ask him if that's his perspective.
The bit about the ET's paying a lot of attention to the Mexico City area volcano is just sort of recalling in gestalt fashion all the mentions of such in the news over the last several years.
Yes, V discusses the "Mount Sinai a Volcano" book (which at first actually sounds reasonable, pillar of fire by night, pillar of cloud during the day), the author of which hiked all over the Sinai and elsewhere trying to find a volcanic peak as a candidate. He failed.
Velikovsky's Planets in Collision hypothesis finally bit the dust when the Venera series of Venus landers found no oil on Venus. I had already decided against the wandering planets because there appears to be no mechanism for Mars, earth and Venus to have been flying around in wild orbits so recently and then to be in fairly circular orbits now.
Oddly enough, the open side of the caldera (IOW, the part that collapsed and caused the supposed wave) points right toward the Greek mainland -- home of the Mycenaeans who succeeded the Minoans in their old trade routes and lands, including Crete. Seems a little strange, doesn't it? It will until the idea of a super-eruption and tsunami in historical times is abandoned. :')
:') Venera didn't look for oil on Venus.
Obviously this is waaaay off topic, but the late J. Allen Hynek gave (as one alternative to the ET hypothesis) out the possibility of metaterrestrials, that is, time travelling UFOs. So, if they seem to have advance knowledge of an eruption... ;')
Upgraded from "YIKES!" to "HOLY COW!"
No, it didn't. But it took a look at what is there, and it found 800 degrees, sulfuric acid, and no oil. End of velikovskianism. There are still sabertooth toger and mammoth bones and hides all jumbled together in frozen muck in Fairbanks, though, so something happened not so long ago.
Santorini was such a massive event that even across 3500 years some kind of partial historical record nearly has to remain of itThat is strange, until one considers that the massive eruption in the 2nd millennium BC is a modern invention.
Good pt.
Thx.
Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments
Source: The Westminster Press, Philadelphia
Published: 1953 Author: Joy Davidman
Posted on 09/26/1999 19:55:16 PDT by logos
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37eedc945143.htm
Mount Sinai Was A Volcano In Saudi Arabia, Says Scientist (Exodus)
The Telegraph (UK) | 6-13-2003 | Roger Highfield
Posted on 06/12/2003 9:15:39 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/928064/posts
Try Exodus.
Both the Exodus and Atlantis stories suggest otherwise.
Is there any volcano in the Sinai, even an extinct one?
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