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- From: scharle@lukasiewicz.cc.nd.edu (scharle)
- Subject: Re: More (verbal) Flooding of "the" flood
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.172101.23598@news.nd.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:21:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.015904.4059@panix.com>, mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon) writes:
- |> 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:
- [discussion about various civilizations apparently contemporaneous
- with the Genesis Flood]
-
- Thanks to Michael for posting better information on that than
- I had (I have to resist the temptation to post stuff without checking
- first). I'm glad that my misinformation got corrected. The Egyptian
- records, and the rather dramatic evidence of the Pyramids do seem to
- be quite adequate counter-evidence to the idea of a world-wide
- catatrophic flood any time around 2300-2400 BCE.
-
- One other civilization which hasn't been mentioned is the Indus
- Valley, which my memory tells me started around about that time.
- Does anyone have any information on how reliably dated that is?
- Unfortunately, we don't have anything that we can _read_ from the
- Indus Valley Civilization, so it's not as definitive as ancient
- Egyptian records.
-
- On the other hand, what range of dates do literalists take as
- acceptable for the FLood? I quoted Ussher's date of 2348 BC.
- Someone else told me 2370 BCE -- do most of the estimates cluster
- around this time, or does someone make it much earlier? I've also
- seen 2104 BCE -- is there any later date?
-
- Then there's the Tower of Babel -- one source I've seen puts it
- 340 years after the Flood. That all people had the same language
- before that seems a little hard to reconcile with Akkadian and
- Egyptian writings, doesn't it?
-
- I know by now that this is an old complaint of those of us who
- believe in conventional story (people having been around for more
- than 10,000 years) but --
-
- Does any Biblical literalist have a brief outline (or even
- better, a detailed one) of world history of ancient times (say,
- before 2000 BCE) which takes account of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India,
- Europe (like Stonehenge) or the Americas? I'd suppose that there
- would have to be a story about what got done before the Flood and
- what after.
-
-
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