[RonF]

Look at historical maps of any major river and you will find over the course of hundreds of years that penninsulas become islands, islands become penninsulas, and sites 5 miles inland today were on the riverbank a century ago.

[blam]

"Look at historical maps of any major river and you will find over the course of hundreds of years that penninsulas become islands, islands become penninsulas, and sites 5 miles inland today were on the riverbank a century ago."

Abraham's home town of Ur was a sea-side town when he lived there. It is almost 100 miles inland today.