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- From: seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson)
- Subject: Re: More (verbal) Flooding of "the" flood
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.193604.26176@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
- References: <1992Nov19.172101.23598@news.nd.edu> <1992Nov20.004006.15741@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> <1992Nov20.125525.18902@news.nd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:36:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.125525.18902@news.nd.edu> scharle@lukasiewicz.cc.nd.edu (scharle) writes:
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- > Which brings to mind a characterization of an Italian opera
- >which a mathematician told me -- "it's locally consistent". That
- >seems to me the best that I can say about any Flood history, but
- >the Flood histories don't have any redeeming musical value.
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- Don't tell my kids that. They are rather fond of such great works :)
- as "Rise and Shine", "Who Built the Ark" and "40 Days of Rain, Rain,
- Rain". (BTW, I do not teach them that there was a literal global
- flood, but we can still enjoy the story.)
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- --
- Seanna Watson Bell-Northern Research,
- (seanna@bnr.ca) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Opinions, what opinions? Oh *these* opinions. | Occam's razor split
- No, they're not BNR's, they're mine. | hairs so well, I bought
- I knew I'd left them somewhere. | the whole argument.
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