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To: SunkenCiv

Or maybe historical memory goes back further than most people allow. IAC, scientific theories tend to have the self life of bananas when they deal with events earlier than last week.


62 posted on 08/24/2006 10:13:35 AM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: RobbyS
Or maybe historical memory goes back further than most people allow. IAC, scientific theories tend to have the self life of bananas when they deal with events earlier than last week.
That's the approach taken by Ryan and Pitman in "Noah's Flood" -- but they screw that up by taking the one tale from the Aegean basin which explicitly refers to a flood and tell us that it doesn't really say what it says. :') The reason Herodotus (who discusses Thera) and Plato (who doesn't) don't record a notable eruption on the island is, it didn't happen until Herodotus and Plato had been dead for centuries.
67 posted on 08/24/2006 10:23:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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