XPost: alt.religion.jehovahs-witn, alt.bible, alt.talk.creationism
XPost: talk.atheism
From: david@dajensen-family.com
In alt.talk.creationism, jabriol@hotmail.com wrote in
:
>Steve Mading
wrote in message news:...
>> In talk.atheism Paul Laird wrote:
>> :
>> : "David Jensen" wrote in message
>> : news:2gmvb050dvm49drr049cbefq27mmcn26s4@4ax.com...
>> :> In alt.talk.creationism, wrote in
>> :> <20040603.181324.20158.23165@webmail04.nyc.untd.com>:
>> :>
>> :> > THE Flood of Noah's day was such a devastating cataclysm that
>> :> >mankind could never forget it.
>> :>
>> :> Bad start.
>> :>
>> :> There was no such flood.
>> :
>> : Even worse response. Geologist and Geologic Paleantologists agree that
the
>> : earth suffered a catastrophic flood sometime in the last 6000 years.
>>
>> No. They agree that parts of the earth suffered seperate local floods
>> at seperate times.
>
>
>This was no local flash flood or cloudburst. In fact, the Greek word
>used in the Bible to refer to the Flood, or Deluge, is
>ka·ta·kly·smos´, a cataclysm. (Lu 17:27, ftn) Local floods come and go
>in a matter of days; this one lasted over a year, the greater portion
>of which was required for the water to subside. How unreasonable to
>believe that Noah spent perhaps 50 or 60 years building a huge vessel
>of approximately 40,000 cu m (1,400,000 cu ft) for the survival of his
>family and a few animals through a mere local flood! If only a
>comparatively small area was affected, why the need of bringing into
>the ark specimens of "every living creature of every sort of flesh" in
>order to "preserve offspring alive on the surface of the entire
>earth"?
The words don't matter if the facts show that the event did not happen.
Got it?
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