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   From: nospam@buzz.off   
      
   On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 04:50:44 -0400, the following appeared in   
   sci.skeptic, posted by "Twonky" :   
      
   >"Michael Davis"  wrote in message   
   >news:d0c256f7367fe88eea128a277828a294@news.meganetnews.com...   
      
   >> The notorious net kook known as Twonky wrote:   
      
   >> > 2:10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden. From there it   
   divided >> and became four   
   >major rivers.   
      
   >> Rivers don't behave that way. Rivers join together to make bigger   
   >> rivers.   
      
   Yep, that's exactly what they do.   
      
   >Christ Jesus, Mke is a river eXspurt....   
      
   Seems so, although expertise isn't really necessary; the   
   simple ability to read a map will do nicely.   
      
   >> They don't split into smaller ones.   
   >   
   >The 'initial' river can be damned in anywhere along its run. It can   
   >be diverted in bifurcation any number of times.   
   >>   
   >> So in the first line you show that your beliefs are simply made   
   >> up fiction, and very bad fiction at that.   
   >   
   >I beg to differ, moi moron eXtraordinaire.....   
      
   Really? Let's see...   
      
   >The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers begin in eastern Turkey, flow   
   >in a southeast direction, and converge in southeast Iraq.   
      
   See above where he says "Rivers join to make bigger rivers"?   
   What do you think he might have meant by that?   
      
   >There's your bigger river....   
      
   Yep, just as he said.   
      
      
      
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