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Posted on 09/24/2006 6:00:46 PM PDT by blam
Flood made Britain into an island 'in 24 hours'
By Tim Hall
(Filed: 25/09/2006)
Britain may have become an island after a Biblical-style flood split it from Europe in less than 24 hours, according to new geological research.
The flood would have taken place between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago, sweeping away hills between Britain and what is now France.
The theory could rewrite British prehistory, as current text-books teach that Britain - once a peninsula of continental Europe - split from the great land mass after a long process of erosion and rises in sea levels.
However, surveys of the Channel bed using new sonar techniques have revealed the remains of a huge valley, running south-west from the Strait of Dover.
The sonar survey, led by Sanjeev Gupta, from Imperial College, London, uncovered deep bowls, scour marks and piles of rubble on the sea bed that may have been caused by a torrent of water.
Dr Gupta said in a paper published at an academic conference: "In places, this valley is more than seven miles wide and 170 ft deep, with vertical sides. Its nearest geological parallels are found not on Earth but in the monumental flood terrains of the planet Mars.
"This suggests the valley was created by a catastrophic flood following the breaching of the Dover Strait and the sudden release of water from a giant lake to the north."
According to Dr Gupta's theory, France and Britain would have been linked by a high ridge of chalk hills, running roughly between Dover and Calais. To the north would have been a freshwater lake, fed by rivers, and deepened over thousands of years.
The lake, hundreds of feet above sea level, finally overflowed the chalk ridge and swept down towards the Atlantic. The water washed away the soft chalk hills and left the British Isles a separate land mass.
Dr Gupta's work is outlined in his book Homo Britannicus: the Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain, to be published next week.
Ummmm...because it makes sense?
A lot of people have a religious belief that it must have been a fast process.
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Should read "Women" - I can't spell tonight.
Lake Missoula
One can see the various shoreline levels still on the sides of Mt. Jumbo and Mt. Sentinel; even weirder, and confusing to five year olds, fossils of ancient seabeds on same.
Evidence of Biblical style water catastrophes continue to pile up.
They just can't seem to get the dates right though or get them to coincide yet. The Baby Lucy was found with many animals all buried by a huge water catastrope. The recent dinosaur finds in South America, again water catastrophe.
"A lot of stuff that appeared to require "a long process" now appears to have happened quite quickly indeed."
Some stuff. I wouldn't say a lot.
Reminds of that classic Times of London headline:
"Fog in Channel, Continent cut off"
Had there been such a lake, with the Dover strait area to its south, then the draining of such a lake southward would have left its northern shores high and dry - there would have to be the second land bridge to the north. Thus IMHO his theory does not hold water.
Water catastrophes simply favor fossil formation. Animals and plants get bunched up together and quickly covered with soil which prevents scavengers from getting to the carcasses and tearing them apart.
Before speech involving words and primitive grammar, there was posture, arm language, facial expressions, as means of communication.
The {poof} notion of geology and biology is long ago discredited.
Man! These modern geologists can really just "pin-point" things these days!
:)
"Fog in Channel, Continent cut off"
Love it!
That wouldn't be the famous British understatement, or would it?
IMO, this is why some contemporary science gets such a bad reputation. You state an estimate range going back perhaps as much as 500,000 years. But not 600,000? Not 700,000? No, no, but 500,000 is a definite possibility (more recent is more likely, of course, but the range of informed estimates goes back as much as 500,000 years).
And with all that, exactly how much evidence do you have for gestural communication within this timeframe? Any fossilized one-finger salutes?
Answer: You're guessing, conjecturring, and supposing. And you're calling it science.
LOL... careful, that's getting pretty close to "beeber" territory!
And yes, I've probably done worse.
It wasn't. But development of the Rove Time Machine is progressing nicely.
Eh? There was a "global flood" and all of God's creation was wiped out save for creatures on an ark? This has been thoroughly discounted for 100 years. Flood myths, faerie myths, rain god myths were discarded because they do not fit any evidence whatsoever. The flood myth in particular has never explained the survival of plants or insects or fresh-water/salt-water species from supposed Edenic times to modern times.
Water has certain known properties, like the latent heat of vaporization. Nobody in biblical times had the slightest clue about this.
The flood myth also teaches immorality.
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.
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