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Glenn,
Sorry for the delay in responding to your interesting idea of the
Mediterranean as Noah's flood locale. I don't recall, however, having seen
anything you wrote on what seems to me another important drawback.
1) Ryan and Pitman in their Book, _Noah's Flood_ say that the desiccated
Mediterranean basin was "an inferno of heat, twenty or thirty times farther
below sea level than Death Valley in California." They called it the
"Mediterranean landscape with drying lakes and their coastal mudflats,
evaporating under a scorching sun." (p. 84). Later the authors mention that
"[in] the broiling hot eastern Mediterranean, the elephants and
hippopotamuses had evolved through natural selection to a dwarf form that
could cope with the hellish conditions." (p. 89).
Have you explained somewhere how such a hellish environment could be a fit
one for human habitation, one that would support a large enough population
and technological culture to make possible the building of an ark?
I appreciate your comments.
Regards,
Bob