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   From: FreedomFromTheWTS@this.NG   
      
   " George"  wrote in message   
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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.   
   >   
   > The only ones who have rejected the fact of glaciation are you and JPT.   
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   And most creationists like Jabriol (a Jehovah's Witness) and other religious   
   fundamentalists will also reject such information.  You can't reason with   
   these people.  When I talked about the dinosaur bones I had seen at the   
   Museum of Natural History with a JW friend, she told me Satan "created" the   
   fossils to trick man into believing in evolution and turning away from   
   Jehovah....  sigh.....   
   --   
   Finzy.....   
   For those seeking the real truth - evolution/magic creation:   
   http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/   
   http://talkorigins.org/   
   http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.html   
   http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section1.html#pred4   
   http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/punc-eq.html   
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