IMHO, the antedeluvian world was of smaller diameter.....there are “giant” human remains that may suggest this as well.
A couple of other posters have raised that possibility on this thread. However, that raises the question: "From where and when did the extra mass and volume appear?"
276 posted on 04/05/2008 2:45:22 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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