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To: Coyoteman

Thanks again for your unfounded opinion.


235 posted on 06/15/2007 4:11:53 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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editor-surveyor: there is nothing about a literal interpretation of Genesis that is at odds with real science...

Coyoteman: There is a lack of scientific evidence for a global flood at about 4350 years ago.

editor-surveyor: Thanks again for your unfounded opinion.


Neither unfounded nor an opinion.

The date 4350 years ago is the average of the estimates of a number of Biblical scholars. Many estimates are quite close to that date.

In doing archaeology, I have found cultures which continue unbroken from before, during, and after that date.

There is continuity of both culture and DNA, as well as local fauna and flora. Native languages show no sign of having originated in the Near East. The mtDNA types of living descendants in this area are found back as early as 10,000 years.

Also, in layers of that age we do not find massive silt deposits nor do we find erosional features resulting from the scouring away of earlier soils.

And this is just evidence I have come up with! Many of my colleagues in archaeology and the other fields of science have a lot more evidence than I do. For example, early geologists, who were pretty much all creationists seeking to prove the global flood, gave up on the idea about 1830. Also, Egypt was a going concern 4350 years ago and they didn't notice a global flood.

In order to contradict this evidence you will have to overturn most of science, as archaeology relies on everything from nuclear chemistry to basket weaving, including most of the physical and natural sciences. You will also have to rewrite the historical record for much of the world.

(Myth busted.)

237 posted on 06/15/2007 6:45:07 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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