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   From: george@george.net   
      
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   > "John"  wrote in message   
   > news:<2Yawc.49$w65.10@fe37.usenetserver.com>...   
   >> My understanding is that biblical stories of the "Great Flood" were taken   
   >> from earlier Sumerian tradition (Gilgamesh, etc.)   
   >>   
   >> There IS evidence of a catastrophic flood event in the Black Sea related to   
   >> glacial melting and failure of ice dams.   
   >>   
   >> The same thing happened in Eastern Washington State ... the ?Brest? floods   
   >> following the drainage of Lake Missoula after the failure of another glacial   
   >> ice dam.   
   >>   
   >> I don't have citations at hand but they are out there.   
   >>   
   >> Oral and written tradition often echo true events but typically distort them   
   >> for historical or even literary reasons.   
   >>   
   >> If this is feeding a troll, sorry...but this type of coalescence of ancient   
   >> tradition and verifiable geological events is fascinating to me.   
   >>   
   > Concerning the time when scientists were developing their theory of   
   > ice ages, we read: "They were finding ice ages at every stage of the   
   > geologic history, in keeping with the philosophy of uniformity.   
   > Careful reexamination of the evidence in recent years, however, has   
   > rejected many of these ice ages; formations once identified as glacial   
   > moraines have been reinterpreted as beds laid down by mudflows,   
   > submarine landslides and turbidity currents: avalanches of turbid   
   > water that carry silt, sand and gravel out over the deep-ocean floor."   
      
   Apparently your source for this bit of trifling bullshit came from Jean Paul   
   Turdhard, troll extraodinaire!   
      
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