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- Subject: Re: More (verbal) Flooding of "the" flood
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.085658.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- From: kmagnacca@eagle.wesleyan.edu
- Date: 17 Nov 92 08:56:58 EST
- References: <12103@risky.Convergent.COM> <1992Nov16.164447.21120@linus.mitre.org> <1992Nov17.123322.9457@news.nd.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.123322.9457@news.nd.edu>, scharle@lukasiewicz.cc.nd.edu (scharle) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov16.164447.21120@linus.mitre.org>, m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
- >
- > According to Bishop Ussher, the Flood occured in 2348 BCE. Remember that
- > there was a considerable time between Adam and the Flood -- Methuselah
- > alone lived 969 years.
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- Actually, there wasn't that long; if you look carefully at the
- numbers and when people were born, you'll find that Methuselah didn't
- die until the year before the Flood. I added it up a while ago, it
- came out to something like 1600 years between Adam and the Flood
- (which presumably is what Ussher got, since that part is easy; it's
- Flood -> Exodus and Exodus -> present that get tricky).
-
- Karl
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- "Find a great ideal, a great purpose, marry it, and raise a family."
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