Glenn wrote:
> God interacted at
>Babel to alter language. But there is no evidence of that between 3000-2000
>years BC. The origin of language families is long before 3000-2000 BC.
I don't belive the tower builders spoke anything but Accadian before and
after their experience at Babel (Babylon). Both Canaanites and Hittites
continued to write in dialected forms of ancient Hebrew. The Babel incident
had a temporary effect, in my estimation.
>One parting shot, since you took one at me about listening--Yeah, I listen
>more than you. You still have that silly idea that water in the mesopotamian
>flood can flow up hill carrying the ark from sealevel up to 3000+ feet in
>elevation or that the ark can be poled, with all those animals and weight,
>by only 8 people against the natural downhill flow of water (3+ mph) which
>would exert such a force on the boat that you hypothesis would fail. I would
>like to see you do an experiment with 8 people to see if this is possible. I
>have yet to see you provide any calculations of the energy requirements of
>such a feat of poling the ark uphill at least 3000 feet in elevation against
>a flow of water which wouuld have been strong enough to wash everything
>away!
I once worked for a guy who was fond of "sucker bets." One of his favorites
was he would bet you he could push a quarter through his ring. You could
examine both and see that the quarter was too big to slide through the ring.
So if you took the bet, he would place the quarter on a table, put the ring on
his index finger, and gingerly push the quarter with his finger. Hmmm ...
I think some of the descriptions of incidents in the OT, like Joshua's long
day or the dial of Ahaz, would have been understandable if we could have
witnessed the events with our own eyes. I don't think the sun stood still or
that the earth was suddenly thrown into reverse. But also, I don't know how
David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear on one of his magic
shows. If I had been in a helicopter, my guess is I could have figured it out.
>Have you ever listened on this point? If so, I don't recall you ever saying
>anything about it.
Okay, I'll say something about it.
What's that expression about "time and tides"? The duration is important.
A continuous flood of over a year in Iraq would be hard to sustain in the
Summer and Fall. Yet two rainy Spring seasons with a period of relatively
dry weather in between would leave ample time for Noah and his crew to pole
up the Tigris. Anyway, 3000 feet of elevation in about one hundred miles
doesn't strike me as a very steep grade. Also, a Sumerian crew would have
been helpful - and, being non-Semitic (or non-Adamic) , they don't count
as part of the eight :>).
Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago."
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