Well, I was trying to take care of the issue of poling the ark upstream. It's
not such a great distance from where you believe Noah started. You mean to say
there was no civilization just a few miles away?
--- Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi Bill, you wrote:
>
> Suppose the flood was so shallow that the ark only drifted a short
> distance
> before it ran aground, but that the flood covered such a wide area and
> the
> water was so wild that no one would dare leave the ark. Furthermore, who
> says
> the journey began near the Persian Gulf? Suppose it began above Jabel
> Judi
> (the place where Carol Hill
> (http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2002/PSCF9-02Hill.pdf)proposes the ark
> landed),
> ran aground near Jabel Judi and stayed there til the flood subsided.
>
> I don't know any civilization north of there active at that time or any
> flooding. In theory anything could work I suppose. Shuruppak is the
> home of Ziusudra and that is where Carol starts Noah's big adventure. I
> have no reason to start some place else.
>
> Dick Fischer
> ~Dick Fischer~ Genesis Proclaimed Association
> Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
> www.genesisproclaimed.org <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org/>
>
>
Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
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"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
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