Dick Fischer write on Saturday, July 20, 2002 6:47 PM
>To: asa@calvin.edu
>There were twenty authors in Robert Best's bibliography I had read in
>researching my book:
>
>Alster
>Bailey
>Gelb
>Gould
>Hasel
>Heidel
>Jacobsen
>Josephus
>Kidner
>Kramer
>Lambert
>Langdon
>Mallowan
>Parrot
>Sollberger
>Speiser
>Tigay
>Wenham
>Woolley
>Young
>
>How many books from any of these authors have you read?
I have read 4, but Dick, you miss the point. If numbers determines truth,
then the Hindoos are correct that the earth rides on the back of a turtle
which swims in the cosmic sea. In my last post
>
>Let me put it another way. How many books and articles have you read
>on geology? How do you feel when you encounter someone who has read
>not one geology book and yet has the gall to hassle you about your
>conclusions.
Dick, I didn't hassle you on the data I hassled you on the LOGIC (or lack
there of). If you think that the numbers of people who believe the same
thing determines truth, then I would suggest that you think again. 50 years
ago, only a handful of geologists beleived that the continents drifted
across the face of the earth. If numbers determine truth, then continental
drift didn't begin until 1965 when the majority of geologists finally
accepted drift!
And Dick, it doesn't take but one big bad fact to sink a theory. You want
Noah and his 7 family members to push the ark north, against the current by
poles. This is so that the ark can be taken from Shurrupak to Turkey. They
are supposed to push it uphill for several hundred miles against the
current. 8 people don't have the energetic output to do this. I don't care
how many deluded people you line up to say "yep, the flood happened just as
Dick says," I will continue to deny your scenario's truth on that account
alone.
>
>>To paraphrase and mangle Mark Twain, there are several
>>billion Buddhists who agree that Buddhism is correct.
>>Shouldn't that tell us something as well?
>
>Best and I together have read well over 300 books and articles
>directly pertaining to this subject, and we agree on the date, 2900
>BC, and the place, southern Mesopotamia.
Congratulations, you are a true bibliophile. But 300 books doesn't
necessarily lead on to the truth. I imagine Henry Morris has read as many as
well! If we want to count, I have a 4400 book library of which I have read
abou5t 3000 cover to cover. I have read something approaching 7000 articles,
big deal. That in and of itself doesn't lead me to the truth either. If the
number of articles and books determine truth, I win. Cease your resistance,
resistance if futile, you will be assimilated.
>
>Either shun the research and trust those who do it, or do the
>research and weigh in. Best, Young, and I did the research and
>agree, you haven't and disagree. Does THAT tell you anything?
It tells me that you are being illogical on this. And as to the research, I
have done the geologic research on Iraq and the physical research on moving
the ark. On both counts your theory fails as I have outlined many times
before . Wanna compare geological books we have read?
http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/mflood.htm
http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/physmeso.htm
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
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