From: Prof. Gomes (gomes@dpx.cnen.gov.br)
Date: Thu Apr 30 1998 - 15:32:19 MDT
At 11:44 28/04/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>SHO master wrote:
>
>
>if you have mread the bible it read that, "over all the world there
>came a dark cloud and it rained for fourty days and fourty nights."
>Now this could be taken in several ways:
>1. their known world was the middle east.
>2. it realy rained over the whole world
>3. it was wrong?
>
>
>
>Has anyone figured this out? If there were an average rain storm occuring
>across the face of the entire planet for 40 days and nights, would that be
>enough to cover the world? If not, how hard would it have had to rain? Of
>course, if it doesn't make sense the theists can just say that god made it
>happen anyway.
>
>Scott Badger
>
>
Possibly such story came from an ancient people who lived in a small island
having a great depression at its center :))) this was ALL THE WORLD !!!!
After that, they simply went to a continental land, maybe near India ( now
seriously: Do you know the hindu story of MAHABHARATA ????)
Gomes.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 14:49:01 MST