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To: HeadOn
Don't be too quick to come to that conclusion. There is archeological (or would that be geological?) evidence of a cataclysmic flood all over the world.

There physically isn't enough water on Earth to do it. And if somehow it happened anyway, 100,000 years would not suffice for its effects to be overcome.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to see adults seriously entertain the notion of a worldwide flood as a historical fact.

32 posted on 06/14/2002 9:11:16 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
Frankly, it's embarrassing to see adults seriously entertain the notion of a worldwide flood as a historical fact.

Not embarrassing at all. You assume the earth had the same characteristics before the flood as after. This is clearly could not be the case if one takes the Genesis account at face value, as Jesus Himself did.

46 posted on 06/14/2002 9:26:04 AM PDT by OldDominion
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Spot on. A worldwide flood would have resulted in the greatest extinction event in the history of the world. It would have made earlier extinction "events" seem tame.
49 posted on 06/14/2002 9:27:17 AM PDT by B.Bumbleberry
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To: Physicist
Just a thought:

Couldn't DNA testing of animals prove/disprove the theory that, say, all elephants are descended from a single pair just a few thousand years ago?

Am I wrong?

58 posted on 06/14/2002 9:36:03 AM PDT by Dominic Harr
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To: Physicist
Frankly, it's embarrassing to see adults seriously entertain the notion of a worldwide flood as a historical fact.

When you gaze into their eyes, you can see all the way to their toes.

67 posted on 06/14/2002 9:43:39 AM PDT by jlogajan
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To: Physicist
There physically isn't enough water on Earth to do it. And if somehow it happened anyway, 100,000 years would not suffice for its effects to be overcome.

Obviously, if there is an omnipotent being undertaking such an activity, he or she could create water from scratch, destroy it when done, etc., and contain or limit the consequences of the event in any way desired.

According to the Bible, these kids were stained with the original sin, and therefore bound for hell.

What a crock. "Original sin" is a man-made unbiblical concept. I challenge you to provide any Scripture that teaches damnation of children.

106 posted on 06/14/2002 10:51:22 AM PDT by Sloth
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Are you SURE there isn't physically enough water to flood the whole earth? How much water, on average, is in the clouds on any given day? How much frozen at the poles? I'm curious as to how you are so sure of your ascertion.
109 posted on 06/14/2002 10:57:22 AM PDT by MEGoody
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To: Physicist
There physically isn't enough water on Earth to do it. And if somehow it happened anyway, 100,000 years would not suffice for its effects to be overcome.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to see adults seriously entertain the notion of a worldwide flood as a historical fact.

As I Christian, and a person that is somewhat familiar with world history and the background of the history recorded in Genesis in the Bible, I'm sorry to say you are almost too correct in your assessment. However, please do not assume that the Bible says this that and the other, when it does not, just because mal-informed Christians say it does. Looking at the original Hebrew manuscripts, it is *not* written there that the world is 6000 years old, just as it not there that the whole world as we know it was flooded. Only a poor scholar not versed in the language that it was written in as well as figures of speech would make such claims.

When it says 'land' in the manuscripts, and the King James translators put in 'world', why would one then assume that Moses meant the whole entire world from China to the Andes to Siberia to the Himalayas was flooded, when he had no knowledge of such places, when he only wrote that the whole 'land' where Noah lived was flooded. Help me out here, what does Occam's Razor have to say about this?

177 posted on 06/14/2002 12:55:17 PM PDT by Citizen of the Savage Nation
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To: Physicist
God has powers little can comprehend. Saying God cant muster more water "physically" provided by Earth is indeed a serious accusation of Gods powers.
287 posted on 06/17/2002 12:17:56 PM PDT by smith288
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