Hello Glenn,
I wrote: That is not the opinion of another scientist I have discussed this
subject
with. He told me that, "A large meteor impact will produce earthquakes .. the
down
and up motion that you need for your model ... is produced by ... a
particular sequence of tectonic events ... [which] may be possible."
You responded: Who is this unnamed scientist who speaks with many ellipses? I
don't think this guy, whoever he is, knows what he is talking about ...
I was quoting from a private E mail sent to me by a respected participant of
this list. Since his E mail to me was off the list I did not mention his name
since he may not have wanted his comments to be on the record. That being the
case, maybe I should not have quoted his comments, even as an "unnamed
source."
My point in doing so was simply to prove that your assertion that Noah's
flood could not possibly have taken place in Mesopotamia, because the lay of
the land and the laws of physics would not have permitted such a flood to
have occurred there, is in error. I believe I have shown that, if the
conditions and events which I described and for which now exists a small
amount of evidence (the description of the flood's cause in the epic and the
existence of what some believe is a large meteor crater in southern Iraq)
actually did exist in Mesopotamia at the time of Noah's flood, then it is
physically possible that Noah's flood was a Mesopotamian flood.
You wrote: You have jumped from a circular depression, to this is a meteor
crater, to this is one of many meteors which hit the world at that time
without a single shred of evidence that it is a meteor impact in the first
place.
I am not the one who has suggested that this "circular depression" appears to
be a meteor crater. Credible scientists have done so.
You wrote: Once your Iraqi depression is shown to be an impact crater rather
than a salt collapse structure, or a karst sink hole, then before you can
claim many meteors hit the earth, you need to show that there are many other
craters of the same time.
If several meteors struck this area of the earth at about the same time
causing Noah's flood, as the epic of Gilgamesh suggests, they may not have
all struck land. Some may have struck the sea and the sea floor, leaving no
craters which are now readily discernible.
You wrote: you need documentation, not speculation, which is all you have
right now.
It sounds to me like you are now admitting that finding evidence that Noah's
flood took place in Mesopotamia is not beyond the realm of possibility.
Mike
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