> > Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 13:27:54 -0200 (GRNLNDDT)
> > To: extropians@extropy.com
> > From: "Prof. Gomes" <gomes@dpx.cnen.gov.br>
> > Subject: Re: Christian Society
> > Reply-to: extropians@extropy.com
>
> > The main problem for me is not such interpretation, just because I suppose
> > they did not even know Everest... And the greater mountain for them was
> > possibly Sinai...They were, in general, an ignorant people, with almost no
> > great commerce or knowledge of the rest of the world... They were weak, lots
> > of times were taken as slaves... Just after, at the time of Solomon or
> > David, they got a little more importance... Their main difference was the
> > religiousty with a monotheist image of the supposed god was of a Good
> > Father... This made them different from Greek ( = Roman ) Theology... And,
> > talking about good things and look: ressurrection... they "made the minds"
> > of other people... ( Note that Christians were nothing more than
> > revolutionary ( in the philosophical sense... ) Neo-Jews, for that time... )
> >
> >
> > >
> > >That's not the worst of it.
> > >
> > >It rained so much as to cover the mountain (and don't forget that the
> > >fountains of the earth opened up to help out). That would be
> > >Everest, which according to my almanac (I found the damn thing
> > >again) is 29,028 feet above sea level.
> > >
> > >It did this in only 40 days and 40 nights = 960 hours. The water
> > >level rose at an average of 363 inches per hour. Even if only 10% of
> > >that is rain (the rest being from the fountains of the earth), that's
> > >a yard of rain an hour. A heavy Midwestern rainstorm delivers maybe
> > >four inches an hour.
> > >
> > >With a yard of rain an hour, Noah didn't need an ark.
> > >
> > >He needed a submarine.
> > >an ark.
^---now what's that line doing there?
> Do we know with out a doubt where all this was taking place, was it
> in the gaza strip?
It was over the entire earth.
After all, that's what the Bible says.
And the Bible is the unalterable incorruptible Word of God, right?
(Excuse me a moment..... GAGGH.... thanks, I'm back and I feel
better.)
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