>He told me that the "solution" I will here discuss was proposed on
>this list quite a while back.<
Actually, it may have been on the Affiliation of Christian Geologists
list and not this one; I have not double-checked the archives.
At any rate, at the Affiliation of Christian Geologists meeting at
the Geological Society of America meeting about six years ago or so,
someone gave a talk on the possibility of the Persian Gulf as the
site for Eden and Noah's Flood. He suggested that recently detected
dry and buried river channels in Arabia could account for the other
rivers besides the Tigris and Euphrates in Genesis 2. However, his
flood model was more like Glenn's than Mike's in that he postulated
the existence of a barrier blocking the southeast end of the Gulf
that, in conjunction with Pleistocene sea level lowstand, produced
the dry seabed. Rising sea level was then envisioned as breaching
this barrier. He provided tentative speculation about the barrier
and evidence for past lowered sea level in the Gulf, but the evidence
is weak at that point.
This has the advantage of not proposing impacts for which there is no
known evidence. Between petroleum exploration and military
attention, I suspect that the large-scale structure of the floor of
the Gulf (i.e., adequate to detect significant craters) is
well-known, though perhaps not publicly available. From Mike's
viewpoint, it has the disadvantage of not corresponding to his
chronology. It does not solve the problem of getting the ark any
farther north than southern Iraq, if that is considered a problem.
It could be quick enough to trap the neighbors without being so
violent as to overturn the Ark.
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
Droitgate Spa
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