Posted on 08/23/2006 5:58:47 PM PDT by blam
Enter into the speculative spirit. A spirit might use a burning gas jet to speak. Who is to say not?
Definitely. The role played by impact was stuck in a temporal ghetto, the Late Heavy Bombardment of billions of years ago; this is based on a series of syllogisms and yield false conclusions. The piles of space debris which come whistling by (or bombing in) shouldn't be there under the dying model. So, there will be a resort to catastrophism, there's not really any way around it, even if it is just something like comets shedding material during their trips through perihelion.
What does he need a burning jet to talk to Moses? Why not use Moses brain?
The Scriptures indicate that the cloud/pillar of fire
FOLLOWED THEM, hovered over them as they went.
There was an emphasis on the UNNATURAL nature of the cloud and pillar of fire in it's hovering over them protectively, closely and as they traveled.
I don't think volcano stuff acts that way. Having been through the darkness in midday from Mt St Helens . . . doesn't sound that natural, to me.
What does he need a burning jet to talk to Moses? Why not use Moses brain?For that matter, why use a volcano?
Bombardment is ceretrainly still going on. One of the hugest collisions took place is what is now Germany. The crater is about 20 miles across. The road goes up over a rin several hundred feet high than then descend to a plain. Once upon a time, it will filled entirely by a lake and debris. I doubt one person in a thousand in Germany is even aware of the enormity of the event, even the thousans of school children who has visted the museum. After they have oooed and ahed, they go home and forget.
Ries Basin, a mere 15 million years ago I think. Next time one of those happens it may be with no warning, despite current efforts.
We sit on our perch precariously. When I visted McDonadl's observatory, the visitors' center showed a film that made a great impression. The CGI showed a tiny earth moving through the fiery sea of the suns extreme atmosphere, protected from extinction only by the earth magnetic field. Having seen this I can hardly take serious the global warning crowd. A slight blip in that magnetic field could cause more change than all the works of man. But ditto with some monstrous volcanic event(s). Puny, puny man. Yet....
North Magnetic Pole could be leaving CanadaThe magnetic pole, which has steadily drifted for decades, has picked up its pace in recent years and could exit Canadian territory as soon as 2004, said Larry Newitt of the Geological Survey of Canada. If the pole follows its present course, it will pass north of Alaska and arrive in Siberia in a half century, but Newitt cautioned that such predictions could prove wrong. The erratic pole can jump around considerably each day, but migrates on average about 10 kilometers to 40 kilometers each year. Friend of navigators for centuries, beckoning compass needles from virtually every point on the planet, the North Magnetic Pole is distinct from the North Terrestrial Pole, the fixed point that marks the axis of the turning planet. The magnetic pole is currently 966 kilometers (600 miles) from the geographic one. Because the magnetic pole lies in the Arctic Ocean, scientists attempting to pinpoint its precise location must visit during a brief window in the spring. The North Magnetic Pole historically is resurveyed about once every decade. But Newitt and colleagues, who last studied the site in 2001, might attempt another trek in 2003 to investigate further its accelerated migration.
by Richard Stenger
wandering magnetic pole image
March 20, 2002
Director posits proof of biblical Exodus
The Globe and Mail | 14 April 2006 | Michael Posner
Posted on 04/14/2006 8:58:16 AM EDT by timsbella
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In 1991 Sigurdsson and his URI colleague Steven Carey had estimated that 39 cubic kilometers of magma and rock had erupted from the volcano around 1600 B.C., based on fallout they observed on land. The new evidence of the marine deposits resulted in an upward adjustment in their estimate to about 60 cubic kilometers.Interesting claim, considering that A) no dating methods are in use by them that anyone would take seriously, and B) that Akrotiri, the town buried (in 200 BC, rather than somewhere between 1350-1650 BC) by an eruption, has 3 to 6 feet of ash -- in spots -- and that 6 feet is the max.
Yes, I remember that line from Yul Brynner very well. BTW, He was part Russian, part Mongolian, if I remember correctly. "Scratch a Russian and find a Tartar," as the Central Asian saying goes. Do you suppose DeMille might have read "Worlds In Collision?" Even the Charlton Heston version of "The Ten Commandments" came out too early to have been influenced by any other of Dr. Velikovsky's books.
For what it's worth, I believe DeMille read Josephus, because of the scene where Prince Moses brings back treasure and a princess from a campaign in Ethiopia. Josephus mentioned that, but it's not in the Bible; if something like that really happened, the author of the Exodus story must have thought it wasn't relevant to anything else Moses did.
Plato clearly puts Atlantis outside the Gates of Hercules and demonstrated a knowledge of true continents beyond Atlantis i.e. North America. This knowledge came from the priests of Eygpt according to him.
I saw that program the other night. Interesting.
Plato was quite explicit as to the location of Atlantis and it was not in the Mediterrean.
thanks. Bet that changes the weather.
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