Posted by Extra!-WW [WW] on April 07, 1999 at 20:43:43 {HTWDI6pmYgOfSZqlzZ0Um1EPSMpKF.}:
In Reply to: ***Mammoths, Flood -- for WW posted by 4 all replies on April 07, 1999 at 16:42:11:
To All,
Sorry for the hurried typing above.
I recognize all of your many valid points and do not know enough about some subjects to attempt to dispute your research.
What I am doing is giving examples of disputes regarding present
scientific understanding. I personally think that a great flood happened sometime within the last 10,000 years and it was enough of an event to have influenced oral traditions in the cultures of several geographic areas. Unless, mankind
lived in ONE LOCAL AREA. Isn't it possible, even probable that there was one first tribe that realized it's intelligence and humanity? Could this then be what we would call 'eden'?
Isn't there a lot of unaccounted for facts that may
indicate there were previous advanced civilizations on the earth? Have you seen the dispute over the age of the Spinx and Great Pyramid? Isn't it downright odd that it was placed at the geographical center of the world? Isn't it true that
the ancient cultures have mythical founders whose names are some variance of Noah's (Nu/Nut) sons? Could they be survivors from an age that had great enough knowledge to have built the pyramids on this side of the flood? Isn't Astarte
source the wife of Noah? 10 kings of Mesopotamia = 10 patriarchs of Israel?
Just how much accuracy does carbon-12 and carbon-14 have after 5000 years and isn't some interpretation involved? With each degrade of the half-life doesn't it
become more variant?
I know a lot of faith is placed in this method and others for the dating of artifacts. I am not convinced of it's accuracy and find it incredible that we can speak of millions and billions of years with full
confidence. Don't get me wrong, I am not personally into the "49000 years or less" existence of earth!
WW