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"Jupiter" |
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06 Sep 2004 08:09:22 AM |
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In the news: Did fossils inspire the ancient flood myths? |
Many ancient and modern cultures have creation myths involving flood legends
similar to the the Bible's story of Noah's Ark. Thinkers over the centuries,
including Leonardo da Vinci, have debated whether the stories were true.
In the past few years it has become popular to believe they were - that a
primordial flood really happened. Recent studies claim to back up the notion
scientifically; for instance, there are findings that a that a titanic flood
created the Black Sea in the Middle East 7,500 years ago.
But a better explanation may exist, a physicist says.
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/040906_noahfrm.htm
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| User: "Az_" |
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| Title: Re: In the news: Did fossils inspire the ancient flood myths? |
07 Sep 2004 02:04:52 PM |
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"Jupiter" <jekluk@aol.com> wrote in message news:<6kZ_c.4099$as.1836388@twister.nyc.rr.com>...
Many ancient and modern cultures have creation myths involving flood legends
similar to the the Bible's story of Noah's Ark. Thinkers over the centuries,
including Leonardo da Vinci, have debated whether the stories were true.
I suspect that the flood myths came first and the fossils implications
on them were and afterthought. Consider this. Most early
civilizations formed around flood plains for the agricultural
advantages. Thus flooding was a prominent aspect of most cultures.
Add to this the discovery of a catestrophic flood around the Dead Sea
and you have the basis for a myth of a global flood.
Myths tend to explain the things that occurr in daily life that may
not be fully understood. Most people did not encounter fossils. It
was scholars and others of their ilk that were exposed to their
existance. They attempted to apply what they could discern from them
to what the myths claimed had occurred.
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| User: "George Washington Hayduke" |
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| Title: Re: In the news: Did fossils inspire the ancient flood myths? |
06 Sep 2004 03:18:24 PM |
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"Jupiter" <jekluk@aol.com> wrote:
In the past few years it has become popular to believe they were - that a
primordial flood really happened. Recent studies claim to back up the notion
scientifically; for instance, there are findings that a that a titanic flood
created the Black Sea in the Middle East 7,500 years ago.
But a better explanation may exist, a physicist says.
Continental uplift, isometric rebound, plate tectonics... Yes,
"physicists" as well as a great many other arenas of scientific
inquiry understand how fossils are deposited and form.
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| User: "Damaeus" |
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| Title: Re: In the news: Did fossils inspire the ancient flood myths? |
23 Oct 2004 04:59:34 AM |
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In news:alt.skeptic.society, (George Washington
Hayduke) posted on Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:18:24 GMT:
Continental uplift, isometric rebound, plate tectonics... Yes,
"physicists" as well as a great many other arenas of scientific
inquiry understand how fossils are deposited and form.
In the Biblical timeline, those floods happened only about 4,000 to 6,000
years ago. Are we then saying that fossils were thrust 17,000 feet into
the air in only a few thousand years, or does the physicist base his theory
on the idea that the entire religious history of the world and all the
events therein are complete *****?
I'm agnostic, by the way, but I lean more toward "wanting" some kind of
eternal existence, and I openly admit that it's because it makes me happy.
Science doesn't even admit to have all the answers. Religious people do,
but they've also got a lot of *****-shoveling going on. Ultimately I think
science will eventually prove some things paranormal, but only when we
construct the technologies necessary to do so.
Damaeus
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: In the news: Did fossils inspire the ancient flood myths? |
07 Sep 2004 06:26:13 AM |
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On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 13:09:22 +0000, Jupiter wrote:
Many ancient and modern cultures have creation myths involving flood
legends similar to the the Bible's story of Noah's Ark. Thinkers over the
centuries, including Leonardo da Vinci, have debated whether the stories
were true.
In the past few years it has become popular to believe they were - that a
primordial flood really happened. Recent studies claim to back up the
notion scientifically; for instance, there are findings that a that a
titanic flood created the Black Sea in the Middle East 7,500 years ago.
But a better explanation may exist, a physicist says.
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/040906_noahfrm.htm
One explanation for fossil shellfish on mountain tops that was popular
before plate tectonics was known was that God created the rocks with the
fossils already in them, and they weren't the remains of once-living
creatures.
God was a real practical joker, back then....
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MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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