Click here (SBS Australia) to learn about the catastrophic geological events that gave (re)birth to the Med Sea 5-million years ago...
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The King James verssion of the Bible reads: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
I believe that the sciptures are evidence that the earth was existing before all things we now no were placed here by God. The scriptures striking depiction of water, "the face of the deep," and the "face of the waters." Knowledge of the evolution of water is important so that we can like Jeanne Kay that we can operate in small dominion and stewardship of our ecosystem.
It's remarkable that ancient "floods" like this appear to have been memorialized by later human beings (even though this one happened LONG before any Homo sapiens were roaming the earth). Note what Pliny the Elder (1st CE) wrote about the Med Sea:
"At the narrowest part of the Straits, there are mountains placed to form barriers to the entrance on either side... Hence the inhabitants have called them the Columns of Hercules; they also believe they were dug through by him; upon which the sea, which was before excluded, gained admission, and so changed the face of nature."
Turns out to be (in general) hydrologically accurate, even if mythically described!
I never cease to be amazed by the power of water. I blame learning that the Grand Canyon was carved out by the Colorado River.... After seeing what Hurricane Ike did to Galveston Island: it hit the island head on and basically travelled highway 45 inland until it petered out, I cannot imagine a flood flowing at 300 hm/ hour and up to 10 meters a day.
Since myths tend to have basis in fact, yet no homo sapiens were around at this time, does that suggest that a second flood occurred during times of humanity to create this myth?
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The King James verssion of the Bible reads: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
I believe that the sciptures are evidence that the earth was existing before all things we now no were placed here by God. The scriptures striking depiction of water, "the face of the deep," and the "face of the waters." Knowledge of the evolution of water is important so that we can like Jeanne Kay that we can operate in small dominion and stewardship of our ecosystem.
Cynthia Williams
It's remarkable that ancient "floods" like this appear to have been memorialized by later human beings (even though this one happened LONG before any Homo sapiens were roaming the earth). Note what Pliny the Elder (1st CE) wrote about the Med Sea:
"At the narrowest part of the Straits, there are mountains placed to form barriers to the entrance on either side... Hence the inhabitants have called them the Columns of Hercules; they also believe they were dug through by him; upon which the sea, which was before excluded, gained admission, and so changed the face of nature."
Turns out to be (in general) hydrologically accurate, even if mythically described!
pdk
I never cease to be amazed by the power of water. I blame learning that the Grand Canyon was carved out by the Colorado River.... After seeing what Hurricane Ike did to Galveston Island: it hit the island head on and basically travelled highway 45 inland until it petered out, I cannot imagine a flood flowing at 300 hm/ hour and up to 10 meters a day.
Since myths tend to have basis in fact, yet no homo sapiens were around at this time, does that suggest that a second flood occurred during times of humanity to create this myth?
--brayden
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