Posted on 12/29/2004 1:48:49 PM PST by paudio
As sad as it is, the SE Asia earthquake is not the worst natural disaster ever. In 1991, Bangladesh suffered from Typhoon that killed about 140,000 people. Before that, in 1970, the country also lost 300,000 people from natural disaster.
The SE Asia disaster, however, seems to be a significant one because there are many Westerners, including 'celebrities', died in this unfortunate event.
Please look at the website that list of the worst 100 natural disaster in the 20th century. They also include famine and epidemic, though.
Why a "celebrity" would want to visit a part of the world where basic services are haphazzard at best, and at worst are backwards and unsanitary is absolutely beyond me.
Helmut Kohl was there. He was airlifted out on Sunday or Monday.
The flooding of the Huang He river in China in August of 1931 killed 3,700,000.
You have obviously not been to these places. While conditions can be quite primitive inland in smaller, isolated villages, the conditions at these resorts and ocean front places is quite nice, even luxurious in most instances. Very much like Mexico where resorts are fully modern and cater to tourists.
What is it with China and floods over the years, they havent figured that crap out yet?
How could you say that? I'm not even aware of any celebrities that died. As far as I'm concerned the numbers are staggering regardless of who comprises the number. I wouldn't be surprised to see the number deade go much higher. This is a huge tragedy, no matter how many people died in the flu epidemic of 1918.
Yes the suffering will not be eased without strong oversight by the US and others. Keep the UN away!
I'm afraid the toll will touch 200k from the event and aftermath.
Dude, I'm getting eyestrain from trying to read that chart.
Not entirely true. While indeed Noah was commanded by God to bring into the ark by twos, he was also admonished:
"Of every clean beast though shalt take to thee by the sevens, the male and his female: and of the beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and his female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth." Gen 7:2,3 (emphasis in italics mine).
In Genesis 6 what is stressed is the pairing of animals that were brought into the ark. However, in Gen 7 it is clear that a number of pairs of certain species was preserved.
What is important to observe here is:
1. God's care for man, for his comfort and benefit. We do not find that Noah was solicitous of himself about this matter; but God consults our happiness more than we do ourselves. Though God saw that the old world was very provoking, and foresaw that the new one would be little better, yet he would preserve the brute creatures for man's use. Doth God take care for oxen? (1 Cor 9:9). Or was it not rather for man's sake that this care was taken?
2. Even the unclean beasts, which were least valuable and profitable, were preserved alive in the ark; for God's tender mercies are over all his works, and not over those only that are of most eminence and use.
3. Yet more of the clean were preserved than of the unclean.
(1.) Because the clean were most for the service of man; and therefore, in favour to him, more of them were preserved and are still propagated. Thanks be to God, there are not herds of lions as there are of oxen, nor flocks of tigers as there are of sheep.
(2.) Because the clean were for sacrifice to God; and therefore, in honour to him, more of them were preserved, three couple for breed, and the odd seventh for sacrifice, (Ge 8:20). God gives us six for one in earthly things, as in the distribution of the days of the week, that in spiritual things we should be all for Him. What is devoted to God's honour, and used in his service, is particularly blessed and increased.
Worst natural disaster - Death. Total fatalities from death - billions.
does anyone ever wonder why most natural disasters occur in Asia.........???????.......
Worst disaster that any one alive can remember.....
Don't forget the millions who died of flu after WWI.
There never was a global flood. The Noah story interpreted that way is just not true.
Or how about the Glen Canyon Dam.
The Flood.
20th century only? What about the Permian Extinction?
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