Posted on 09/20/2007 6:21:38 AM PDT by Dysart
I’m nearly through reading it, it’s mostly excellent, and pertinent here because of mass extinction of the mammoths.
How long ago did the flood of Noah occur?
...The fossils date back about 68,000 years to a time when central Texas had fewer trees and more grassland.
Yes, but it’s a good tail.
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It sounds like they think that the mammoths were protecting their calves from a flood, but what were the saber tooth cat and a camel doing there with them?
And there might be more mammoths there as well? How big of a flood was that?
My neighbor found a 12 ft long tusk on his property in Bell county Tx!
I’ve seen it! (Too bad he ruined it with ‘epoxy’ glue...)
Yep, time to blow the lid off this thing.
I don’t really know; those questions sprung to my mind as well. Maybe the camel and saber tooth cat(tiger) were somehow washed down to this location later?
I sure hope they open this to the public. My pet mammoth told me he wants to be buried here with a few of his old friends.
I woolly expected more from you.
I hope they release the location. I’m eager to pack my trunk and journey down...
A condition which still exists for much of Texas. According to secular scientists, there were still mammoths and ground sloths running around North America as recently as 10 or 11,000 years ago. The evidence here is not inconsistent with the animals having been overwhelmed by a flood, so the only question is dating.
While this is interesting, it does not answer my original question about when the flood of Noah is supposed to have occurred.
How long before they blame these deaths on Bush, Rove and Cheney?
Wouldn’t it be cool if they could take the DNA from a mammoth and put it into a fertilized elephant’s egg in her womb?
I wonder if we would ever do that?
Ed
They didn’t happen to find the remains of Janet Reno there did they?
I think that has been done. The mammoth they found in Siberia and had a big show on Discovery was used. The DNA material was taken to Japan and implanted there, I think. No links on that though. I believe it was done in the past two to three years ago. I do not remember the results.
I wasn’t around then, so I can’t give a precise date. The geological record seems to indicate about 10,000 or so years ago.
By using the dates mentioned in the bible when sons were born to the patriarchs, most scholars say that the Deluge must have taken place in the third millennium before the birth of Jesus Christ — possibly between 2500 BC and 2300 BC.
Here’s the order, based on dates mentioned in the bible.
Name - Years before son’s birth
Adam 130
Seth 105
Enos 90
Cainan 70
Maleleel 65
Jared 62
Enoch 65
Mathusela 187
Lamech 182
Noah 600
Noah was 600 years old when it happened:
In the 600th year of Noah’s life, in the 2nd month, the 17th day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. On the very same day Noah, Noah’s sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s wife and his sons three wives with them, entered the ark with two of every animal and bird. God shut the door of the ark, and the Flood began. It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed 15 cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth and every man.... Only Noah and those with him in the ark remained alive. [Gen 7:11-23]
I’zat so.
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