I absolutely agree with David. It seems that this 'crater' has already been
blessed off on prior to anyone visiting the site all based on a statement in
the Gilgamesh. This isn't the way science is done.
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
>Behalf Of bivalve
>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 12:59 PM
>To: asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: space.com dates Noah's flood to 2350 BC
>
>
>This sounds akin to an article I saw in Terra Nova a few years back,
>arguing for widespread disruptive cometary activity in the early
>historic past. Replies in the following numbers suggested that the
>correlations were not nearly as strong or precise as the initial
>article claimed. Likewise, there is no evidence that the Iraq
>crater, if it is a crater, dates to 2350 BC rather than several
>thousand years earlier. Until some evidence is produced to show that
>it is a crater and the age of the impact, the speculation (especially
>in the newspaper version, which made stronger claims than the
>website) on athropological efects and correlation is premature.
>
> Dr. David Campbell
> Old Seashells
> University of Alabama
> Biodiversity & Systematics
> Dept. Biological Sciences
> Box 870345
> Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
> bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com
>
>That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted
>Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at
>Droigate Spa
>
>
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