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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Question on scientific creationism theory and The Flood
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Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 21:33:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 21:33:28 1984
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>There is data to support the postulate that much of what is now
>the Middle East was flooded at some point about 10,000 years
>ago (I am not exact on the dates, you nit-pick flamers.) To the
>writers of the Bible, the Middle East *was* the world. Ergo,
>a world flood. Which leads me to something that has been forgotten:
>
>        THE BIBLE WAS WRITTEN FOR ITS INTENDED AUDIENCE
>        That means sheperds, fishermen, etc.
Flood stories come from many parts of the world, but all were handed down
by oral tradition for an unknown time before being recorded.  Oral tradition
can be remarkably accurate, and we may well assume that *some* kind of
flooding was pretty general a few thousand years (say 10,000 if you like) ago.

What happened around then that we know about?  Well ... there was a rise
in sea level of quite a few feet as the Ice Age ice melted.  Countless
fishing villages (if any existed) would have been flooded, and at least
people would know that places their grandfathers had known as land were
now under water.  Couple that with wind-driven tidal surges now and then
in flat areas that occur at the ends of many sheltered bays, and you have
plenty of seeds for stories of great floods ..."in my father's day" ...
"in my great-great grandfather's day" ...  "in the days of long ago, there
was a huge flood that covered all the land."

There's no smoke without fire, but a flood can put it out.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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