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   From: george@george.net   
      
   "Finzy"  wrote in message   
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   >> >> > "John"  wrote in message   
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   >> >> >> 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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   That sounds just about right up their alley.  There aresome Jehovahs' Witnesses   
   in my neighborhood.  they come around about twice a year to try to pray with me   
   on my doorstep. I usually tell them to wait while I get my Torah out (of   
   course,   
   I'm not Jewish either, but my wife is).   
      
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