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From: MikeSatterlee@cs.com
Full-name: Mike Satterlee
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:51:25 EDT
Subject: Re: space.com dates Noah's flood to 2350 BC
To: glenn.morton@btinternet.com
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Glenn,
Forgetting the "crater," I found the tree ring studies showing that a major
climate altering event of some sort happened between 2354 and 2345 BC to be
very interesting, since (2350 BC) was Ussher's date for the flood. I've done
a lot of study of Bible chronology and that too is how I date it.
The fact that the Gilgamesh epic seems to describe a meteor, or several
meteors, as the cause of the flood makes me hope Saddam allows studies of the
kind you mention to be done. I believe glass beads should also be found if it
is a meteor crater, which would be able to be dated by some means. However,
this is in an area which was overgrown by vegetation and the "crater" was
covered by water for thousands of years, unlike the crater in the Arizona
desert. Positively identifying it as a meteor crater may not be that easy
even if it is one.
Mike
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