Posted by WW- [WW] on April 06, 1999 at 13:44:13 {JK6FUAMFdMOfSZqlzZ0Um1EPSMpKF.}:
In Reply to: Mammoths, Flood -- for WW posted by AF on April 06, 1999 at 06:54:24:
af,
I realize you have done much research and honestly believe what you are telling me.
You depend on other's research or writings to do some of yours, right? You say your sources are beyond dispute? What about the 10% of Brown's
treatise that is unexplained?
I am not posting this info for those who have made up their minds, nor is it for the purpose of debate.
How much do you think would happen to the configuration of the earth's continents and seas if we had
a close call with a planetary body?
Did you know that with a flat landscape, the whole earth would be covered by a mile and a half of water? I'm sure you do.
There is really too much evidence left out in all science because some of
it cannot be pigeonholed into a category. For instance, there is an ancient city that exists high up in the Andes. Spaniards were amazed at what they found and the local indians said the Ancients had made the city. It is too high for
humans to do the WORK required to build it! NO way to grow the food at that height in the mountains.
Carvings on the blocks show people who do NOT LOOK LIKE the races now prevalent in the region. Who were the inhabitants? Therefore it
was raised by catastrophism and likely very quickly. It is largely intact so a large area had to move at once. There are sandy SHORELINES at high elevations.
Ancient calendars from different cultures show a year as being 290 days, then
after a break in time and evidence are 'corrected'. This idea that continents ONLY shift and move over millions of years is disputable.
Something happened in the ancient days, some catastrophic event or events. There are too many
unanswered questions to just say 'it never happened'.
Do you deny that the earth could have had a different tilt on the axis, allowing a much milder climate worldwide?
There are salt lakes in mountains, fossilized aquatic creature's
remains on mountains, the list goes on and on.
I am also not 'afraid of what I will find', I have seen it and am not impressed. I have also realized that much more of the Bible than I thought can not be taken literally and it does not
have to be!
There is a deeper, more spiritual meaning when one looks beyond the literal storyline.
I also recognize where the Bible is in many ways a history of Israel and they used 'Yahweh commanded' to justify butchery and
murder.
It is not inerrant, it has an ancient view of events and the cosmos and it cannot be defended as literally word for word from God.
WW