In a message dated 07/08/2002 11:31:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com writes:
<< 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 sounds like the theory in Walter S. Olson, "Has Science Dated the
Biblical Flood?" Zygon 2 (Sept, 1967) 274. The date is c. 9500 BC.
Paul
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