Posted on 06/21/2004 7:49:48 AM PDT by aculeus
Figure 1: Marine Fossils on Top of the Andes Mountains. More than 500 giant fossilised oysters were found 3000 metres (about 2 miles) above sea level in Peru in 2001 by Arturo Vildozola, palaeontologist with the Andean Society of Paleontology. (photo from AP/Wide World Photos)
Fossils begot floods ping.
Its all water under the bridge.
So, how'd the coal get so deep ?
I suspect that it takes longer than 40 days and nights for those oysters to grow that big.
I also think that the Black Sea theory re. the Great Flood is a good theory.
Perhaps the fossil records are not too accurate, but Life on Earth is much older than thousands of years old. Millions of years old seems more accurate.
I don't need to refute the fossil records in order to believe in our Creator or to believe in the Creator of the Universe or to believe that the Bible is founded on the strongest foundation.
counting the minutes until the first reactionary creationist doesn't read the whole article to realize it does not support their fantasy...
Other thing of note is that there are plenty of ancient peoples that have no "flood myth" at all.
Is this the Russ McGlenn thread?
Man, wouldn't those make some awesome oyster stew!
I've also read recent articles that place the Biblical accounts of Noah as being based upon legends of the ancient Babylonians. Those accounts predate the Bible by several thousand years, and would have been available to the Jews who were taken to Babylon.
"It has been generally assumed that since the Flood is such a detailed and epic part of the book of Genesis, the Flood must have really happened."
There are numerous other detailed epics from ancient peoples (Greeks, Egyptians, China...) does that mean all those things happened as well? If one detailed ancient epic 'must have really happened' - why not all of them? Bedtime stories are fun but they sure aren't science.
Z
I don't care what you say, I'm still not gonna let Ted Kennedy drive me to the party!
Good question.
Well, new soil is constantly being laid down over the old do to volcanic eruptions, earth movement tectonic activities, etc.
While this doesn't amount to much over a year's time frame -over a period of thousands of years it adds up - even over a few hundreds of years. Look at ancient cities, Roman ruins - they are all below curren ground levels.
Coal deposits were laid down millions of years ago.
I think the scholarly consensus is that the Noah's ark story was written before the exile.
Or Oysters Rocky-feller.
I don't know about that, but it wouldn't matter. Abraham came from ancient Sumeria, so presumably he -- and thus the ancient Hebrews -- already knew the Sumerian legends.
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