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  • From: "George F. Somsel" <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • To: villandra AT austin.rr.com
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ark of the Flood - to change the subject
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:15:55 -0400

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:50:28 -0500 "Dora Smith" <villandra AT austin.rr.com>
writes:
> Hey, you know what? I bet someone on this list may know this!
> After all,
> Abraham's god predates Akhenaten by a long time!
>
> My housemate says that between one and three years ago, there was
> some
> program on TV, he thinks as part of a pledge drive on PBS but not
> sure, that
> discussed wonders of the ancient world, and among them, the Flood,
> and
> Joshua's stopping of the sun at Jericho (I think that is when the
> sun
> stopped for a day and maybe turned backward).
>
> If you remember, around three to four years ago it looked as if all
> educational programming had gone Christian fundamentalist; it was
> full of
> "evidence" of the "truth" of stories in the Bible. I thought
> surely
> Armageddon was at hand.
>
> Anyhow, program presented someone's work to the effect that there
> is
> worldwide evidence that a worldwide flood happened ON A SINGLE DAY,
> and
> provided some scientific explanaiton of how the sun stood still and
> did the
> antics it did. My research has turned up discussions of how
> Cretaceous
> era rock is only a few thousand years old, and ample evidence that
> world
> wide flooding happened during a period of a few thousand years just
> before
> the dawn of recorded history.
>
> Anyone know of a TV program, or anything else, claiming evidence of
> worldwide flooding on a single day?
>
______________

That seems rather unlikely. Even the Fundamentalists, following the
Genesis account, hold to "forty days and forty nights."

george
gfsomsel



  • Re: [b-hebrew] Ark of the Flood - to change the subject, George F. Somsel, 07/16/2004

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