it was how england was made!! what do you think about this article??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070718/sc_livescience/megafloodcreatedgreatdividebetweenbritainandfrance
2007-07-18 09:51:51 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I guess I needed to add some details...
when I said what did you think of this article.... thats what I meant.
I thought that it was neat that it was how england was made....
I didn't mean to imply I thought that this was the flood that the bible was talking about with noah and his animals....
but for those of you who made nice remarks towards me.... thanks! I appreciate that and will be sure to share them with my sunday school class when I share them this article also....
2007-07-18 10:47:12 · update #1
I don't think this is a good candidate for thee flood, merely a flood. This one is so far back in prehistory, that Noah would have had to have been a Homo Heidelbergensis, and not a Homo Sapiens. Even the Neanderthals had not yet evolved.
Besides, this flood, as big as it was, was western European in scope. It would have had no impact on Turkey or the near East, the regions described in Genesis' flood narrative.
Given how frequent floods in the fertile crescent were in the Neolithic, I don't think we really need to look to this one.
2007-07-18 09:56:36 · answer #1 · answered by evolver 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
13 minutes - thats how long it took from the time that story was posted until someone grabbed hold of it and took it as evidence for a global flood.
Go read the article again. Not global, local flooding. Due to a lake held back by an ice dam. 450K years ago, not 6K...
Nice try.
2007-07-18 17:04:44 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In a universal flood, there would be many effects on already existing land depressions, and traces of sediment from each would only reach so far, producing many varying areas as to results to be seen for centuries later. It could easliy appear to be many disjointed local floods. As the great flood receded, even as the Bible states, there would necessarily have to be isolated pockets of flooded land retaining their overflow longer, further adding extra, concentrated change to each in turn. Common sense accounts for this, rather than running blindly by it in a rush to "prove dem stupid religious People" wrong.
2007-07-18 17:04:59 · answer #3 · answered by Travis J 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How did Noah gather 2 Polar Bears for the Arc when he didn't know that they existed?
2007-07-18 16:57:45 · answer #4 · answered by liberty11235 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ummm.. did you see the timeline? We were unable to become more advanced than we are for 450,000 years? All that time, and we only have roughly 10,000 years of written history?
2007-07-18 16:58:34 · answer #5 · answered by Worzel Gummidge 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I saw it before I logged in. Interesting article. You beat me to it, btw. I was formulating a question and I came across yours.
2007-07-18 16:56:20 · answer #6 · answered by Patrick the Carpathian, CaFO 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Let's see the Christians come up with an intelligent rebuttal.
2007-07-18 16:57:08 · answer #7 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Geology: Good for atheists. Bad for religious folk.
2007-07-18 16:55:44 · answer #8 · answered by Lisa 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
"A 'megaflood breached a giant natural dam."
That doesn't sound like 40 day/nights of rain, and this thing wouldn't cover that much land.
2007-07-18 16:57:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋