Slowvehicle
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Biblical Flood? Fish, squid, and shrimp fossils in the mountains of Lebanon and Peru
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Akhenaten
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I can but reiterate your question.
As a long-term fan of 'these' threads I don't normally have too much trouble translating the OPs into English and then proceeding as though the author actually had something to say.
So far, however, all I'm getting from this thread is:
2.5 billion years ago there was a lot of water about, therefore the biblical flood of 6 thousand years ago is a true story.
What the hell am I misssing?
Mojo
Mostly harmless
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
Hi, mate.
There's something vewwy scwewwy going on here, and I'd hate for it to cause any misunderstanding between us, especially since we agree so closely with each other.
For some reason that I'm at a loss to fathom, the post you keep referring (and indeed linking) to as #361 is, as far as my version of the forum is concerned, post #358, whereas #361 was authored by Agatha.
My apologies for any confusion this may have caused. I have no idea how to explain this anomoly.
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Slowvehicle
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Mighty One (may you post forever!): How ya been since?
This link
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php...&postcount=361
takes me to the post to which I thought I was referring, to wit:
...do the numbers change when posts get AAH-ed?
At any rate, enough of us have asked enough times, and enough different ways, for DOC to commit to a chronology that it really does not matter who he answers, if he would just answer one of them.
I will wager the title to my tapir-pulled MesoAmerican chariot that we will not be seeing a substantive answer.
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The post number shown when viewing a single post is encoded in the URL. Not sure how it got to be wrong; possibly if the URL was saved, and then 3 posts were sent to AAH, that would do it. If you go to the post in the thread, you'll see it is actually 358. http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9176448#post9176448 (I think it's best to link like that anyway, because you can see the post in context.)
Slowvehicle
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Akhenaten
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I'm sorry, your question does not compute.
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
As much as I love (dare I say 'covet') that avatar, I can't bring myself to bet against what for you is the safest bet ever.
Rincewind
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As the whole point of the flood was to exterminate all but the family Noah, how on earth could a local flood manage to do this?
Thanks.
Thanks.
That's the problem with assuming the facts of the story have some bearing on reality. If, however, you view the purpose of the story to be the moral of the story, even a much more minor event can be sufficient. The Bible wipes out a few cities to get across the message "Don't disobey God". The real question is, why go to such catestrophic lengths here? What's the point of wiping out the world, when obviousl smaller events clearly have the same (roughly) impact?
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Thank you, your Moderatorship!
You're welcome, but no inside knowledge was needed for that, just something I'd noticed well before my transition to the other side.
smartcooky
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IMO, as stated earlier, the flood event, as written in the OT was world wide from their perspective, when you consider what their world consisted of at the time, the eastern end of the Mediterranean as far as Cappadocia (eastern Turkey).
They had no concept of the "global" world as we understand it.
You have to be dead to be a moderator? That explains the smell....
DOC, when do you think the Biblical flood happened? Do you believe it was a local or a global event?
As a couple of side questions, do you understand that mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam are titles, not actual people, and the current holders of those titles almost certainly did not live at the same time or ever met? There is no relationship with the Biblical Adam and Eve other than the names the scientists chose in order to make the concept accessible to people who had little understanding of this particular field of science.
Do you understand that the people who hold those titles at the moment will not always hold those titles as lineages die out, or further advances are made in understanding of genetics? For reference, the current holders of those titles are a woman who lived around 190,000 to 200,000 years ago for mE, and YcA being a male who lived somewhere between 271,000 and 581,000 years ago, and was not a modern human.
Jesus wasn't a fairytale. He was a famous historical person if we are to believe Bart Ehrman who said Jesus certainly existed. And he was a famous historical person whose grave is empty and whose body has never been found.
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