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   From: george@george.net   
      
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   >" George"  wrote in message   
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   >>  wrote in message   
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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!   
   >   
   > uh.. no.. however please explain why you call it bullshit.   
      
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