[Avodah] Birds & Fish in the Mabul

[harchinam]

>
> How do you explain the apparent evidence of continuous human habitation,
> going back thousands of years before the mabul, in the Americas, Australia
> and  Asia -- and the lack of evidence of any interruption and world-wide
> wipeout of  human life ca. 4000 years ago?
>

What evidence? There is none, really. Just taking Gaza in EY for an
example, it was a total desert wasteland for many decades when there were
no Jews there and after the Jews came back it looked like no one ever left.
There were people living in many areas before the mabul, people were wiped
out, and then people came back there. There are artifacts and leavings from
various times in history, but there is absolutely no way to find proof of
artifacts from the specific one-year period of the mabul or the few years
afterwards. And floods don't dissolve artifacts, they bury them and/or wash
them away. We see that after terrible flooding and natural disasters in
various parts of the world they are rebuilt and look basically "good as
new" afterwards. It doesn't take that long for humans to reproduce and to
repopulate areas that were once barren -- EY is proof of that.

*** Harchinam
     out in harei yehuda
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