1/23/01
Dick Wrote:
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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
Behalf Of Dick Fischer
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 4:20 AM
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 :>).
While I appreciate you finally saying something about this issue, it really
doesn't prove that this is possible. There is a need for a look at this
energetically. If the ark was a tiny little boat--then yes, they could have
poled it north. IF it was large enough to carry a significant load of
animals then I doubt 8 people could do it. Shoot, along the old Erie canal
and canals in England, they used donkeys to pull the boats. But, you
couldn't do that if the landscape was underwater--the poor mule would drown.
But I am curious now about another point. In order to get Noah and his boat
up stream you seem to have a flood, then a dry spell then another flood.
That doesn't match the Biblical account at all. It seems that in order to
have a rational mesopotamian flood account we have to reject what the Bible
says about the flood, thus making up what happened to our own satisfaction.
Why on earth do you believe this solves the flood problem? It solves the
flood problem as you envision the flood to have been, but not as the Bible
says it was.
glenn
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