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   From: matts2@ix.netcom.nospam   
      
   On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 07:59:14 -0400, Pastor Dave   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:51:45 GMT, Matt Silberstein   
   > posted thusly:   
   >   
   >>On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:24:51 +0930, "Linda"   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>IF  The Ark sits at 14,500ft above sea level...............   
   >>>   
   >>>Near the Top of Mt Ararat towards the Ahora Gorge.................A find   
   >>>would be...   
   >>>   
   >>>Implications Staggering.   
   >>>Would revolutionize virtually all disciplines.   
   >>>Geology (Physical & Historical)   
   >>>Anthropology   
   >>>Archeology   
   >>>Zoology   
   >>>Biology   
   >>>All Humanities, History, Sociology, Religion.   
   >>   
   >>How so? Let us assume we find the remains of a boat on the top of that   
   >>mountain (there isn't one, but let us pretend). How does that   
   >>overthrow all of the geological and biological evidence that says   
   >>there was no global flood 4,000 years ago? How does that   
   >>"revolutionize" anthropology and archaeology and such? We have   
   >>millions, if not billions, of data points supporting those   
   >>disciplines. One outlying point does not refute that. Please tell us   
   >>your logic.   
   >   
   >See what I mean, Linda?  The evidence doesn't matter to   
   >them.  They're going to believe what they believe,   
   >which is based on their faith that no catastrophe ever   
   >changed the decay rate for any period of time and then   
   >accuse you of believing only on faith, while you're   
   >standing next to Noah's Ark.   
      
   Try to write something a little less silly. The evidence does matter.   
   Finding one item, even a boat on top of a mountain, does not make all   
   of the *other evidence* go away. Which is why I *asked* Linda (though   
   you are free to answer as well) exactly how this *single* piece of   
   evidence overthrows what we have learned from *millions* of other   
   pieces of evidence. This is not a question of faith at all.   
      
   As long as we are on the question of evidence, how does the *evidence*   
   tell you that some (supposed, not actually found, but we are   
   pretending) boat found on the top of a mountain is Noah's Ark?   
      
      
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   Matt Silberstein   
      
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