Re: Noah's Flood math help

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:09:19 +0100, hlg
<huw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The flooding of the Neoeuxinic Black Sea lake was a catastrophic event
on a geologic time scale. An 80- to 100- meter lake level raise in 30
or 300 years, however, would not count as catastrophic on a human time
scale. But becoming aware of the flood's inevitability, could have
been an important breakthrough in the Early Neolithic man's
understanding of nature. Finally, for once, he is able to predict the
outcome and justifiably make the right decision to move for greener
pastures. For the next generations of primitive societies, who would
have had the opportunity to confirm the correctness of the predictive
model, that breakthrough in thinking would have seemed extremely
awesome and worthy to be attributed to divine inspiration. Imagination
and artistic license would gradually add to the story dramatic effects
by shortening the time scale and lengthening the dimensions of space.

Thank you for your apposite, well-researched, reasoned and reasonable
comments on this thread, and sci.geo.geology in general. I have long
since stopped contributing generally to a newsgroup so full of rude
self-opinionated pseudo-scientists.

Huw Gallon

Thanks! I appreciate you took the time to write this. I tried
answering via e-mail rather than posting here, but it did not go
through.

Regards,

Mircea
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