Re: Round earth in judaism


Lisa wrote:


Cataclysmic events have certainly occured in the Earth's history.
Asteroids, floods, global warming, global cooling, reversals of the
magnetic field, all kinds of things. But not 5,000 years ago.

In your opinion. For one thing, global warming and cooling has
absolutely happened, according to *everyone* even within the last 1,000
years. The Tunguska event, which happened less than a century ago, may
well have been an asteroid strike.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

Though no one actually knows what caused it. The fact that less than a
century later, and a century with mass communication, at that, most
people have never even heard of the event, certain suggests that other
such events could have happened during recorded history which aren't
well known.

But, realistically, the main reason most people have never heard of it
is that despite the size of the impact, it happened in one of the most
geographically isolated areas in the northern hemisphere and affected
almost no one. Had it happened in a major population center, we'd
still be hearing about it constantly. The biggest problem there, AFA a
flood, is the complete absence of evidence supporting it as a
cataclysmic event and the absence of antedeluvian artifacts that differ
substantially from postdeluvian ones. We would reasonably expect to see
radical changes in many things, major discontinuities, and evidence of
entire civilizations that ceased to exist, all at the same time.
Several problems with your comet idea -- first, it wouldn't have
happened over forty days. A comet with enough water to flood the entire
earth would have had a catastrophic impact that would have been felt
immediately, ending all life on earth about the same time, and would
have certainly destroyed even the most modern sea vessel, to say
nothing of a wooden ark.It wouldn't have just rained; there would first
have been a shock wave followed by blazing heat and such thick dust
that no one could breathe. Then, the water would have done its thing.
Secondly, that much water wouldn't have just vanished without a trace,
leaving oceans and seas at pre-flood levels. And even a comet that was
mostly ice would also have with it many other metals and elements which
would alter the composition of the seas and the surface of the planet,
probably to the point that they wouldn't support the same sorts of
plant life. (Keeping in mind that we're talking about a comet large
enough to cover the whole earth with water...) Finally, a comet that
large would have left a crater the size of the Pacific ocean. And I'm
not sure you're going to find a comet that large in the entire Kuiper
Belt.

Eliyahu

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Relevant Pages

  • Bruce Masse (and others) on Noahs Fludd
    ... Masse, an environmental archaeologist at Los Alamos National ... gigantic comet crashed into the Indian Ocean several thousand years ... Only 185 craters on Earth have been identified, ... describes a deluge for 40 days and 40 nights that created a flood so ...
    (sci.archaeology)
  • Re: OT: sea level rise hmmmmm....
    ... They were blaming the last record flood in Hamburg on the rising sea level. ... Climate science isn't so dissimilar, ... quite obviously successful in communicating meaningful signals for us, ... global warming, more precipitation per year and a change in the time ...
    (sci.electronics.design)
  • Re: Comet parts Red Sea tradition
    ... There are traditions that Halley's comet parted the Red Sea. ... a 576 year orbit from 1682 AD back to the Flood as 2929 BC ... and Edmond Halley effecting his beleifs in Flood and Red Sea. ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: OT: sea level rise hmmmmm....
    ... quite obviously successful in communicating meaningful signals for us, ... year flood plains" that are considered quite buildable for homes... ... global warming, more precipitation per year and a change in the time ...
    (sci.electronics.design)
  • Re: Golf rankings!
    ... Preparing ourselves for what we get. ... If a flood is going to be much much bigger than the flood control dam ... means more warming, which means more CO2. ... There are many ways to prepare for global warming. ...
    (rec.sport.golf)