Re: The flood and the deep - rambling thoughts

From: gordon brown (gbrown@euclid.Colorado.EDU)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 15:47:13 EST

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    Allen,

    The author of Genesis was not what you call a Flood Catastrophist. If he
    had been, he wouldn't have wasted his time trying to explain to his
    readers the geographical location of the Garden of Eden.

    Gordon Brown
    Department of Mathematics
    University of Colorado
    Boulder, CO 80309-0395

    On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Allen Roy wrote:

    > Point 1. Because of that, Flood Catastrophists propose that the pre-flood
    > geography was much different than today. The high mountains that exist now
    > result from CPT (Catastrophic Plate Tectonics) which shoved up the mountains
    > (in general). Prior to the flood catastrophe it is proposed that the
    > highest mountains were likely less than 2000 meters high and represented
    > less than 4% of the earth's surface similar to today. Most of the surface
    > topography would be low rolling hills and slightly sloping "flat lands."



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