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Amen!  All "conclusions" are tentative, for no one knows what future 
discovery will
reveal, nor how much more remains to be found, or even precisely where it may 
be
found.

Solomon Landers
Memra Institute for Biblical Research
http://www.memrain.org

Rolf Furuli wrote:
>..................................

> Let me stress this: I do not defend a young earth, and I do not try to
> prove by help of geology that a worldwide flood has occured. I simply want
> to demonstrate   how problematic it is to measure the value of the accounts
> in Genesis by help of  history, archaeology, or geology. We simply do not
> know. We would not expect to find a structure from the past with the sign
> "Noah's ark" or the remnants of a river with a sign "Pison river". But
> neither can we use negative evidence as a means to show that the Genesis
> account is just fiction (e.g. we cannot find the remnant of a worldwide
> flood, therefore no such flood has occurred). So again, let us admit that
> the principal reasons for the different viewpoints regarding the origin and
> meaning of the Genesis accounts and a young or old date of the torah are
> differences in metodology and  different assumptions and not necessarily
> science versus faith.
>
> Regards
>
> Rolf
>
> Rolf Furuli
> University of Oslo
>