[Avodah] Birds & Fish in the Mabul

[Liron Kopinsky]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:56 AM, hankman <hankman at bell.net> wrote:

>  Even if one were to accept your argument concerning the artifacts of the
> inhabited areas of the world at that time (as sparsley as the world was
> then populated),  I think one still has major explaining to take care of
> with how you would expect the fossil record in the uninhabited world of the
> period to show up today. Following a flood of global proportions killing
> off all land life outside the Teiva one would expect that all the cadavers
> would eventually collect and settle in great disorder and all mixed
> together when finally brought to rest by the receding waters in many low
> lying areas many of which would be remote from human settlement for a long
> time. These would be at one stratum (that of the mabul) readily identified
> by these many collections of fossils over the entire globe. This stratum
> should at the very least have many such large random collections of fossils
> of the fauna circa 4000 years ago at dips in the terrain that collected
> there post Mabul as it dried up on all of the continents. I think this
> expectation is not met in any known stratum that has so far been uncovered.
>

How do you translate Gen 7:23 - וַיִּמַח אֶת-כָּל-הַיְקוּם אֲשֶׁר
עַל-פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָה, מֵאָדָם עַד-בְּהֵמָה עַד-רֶמֶשׂ וְעַד-עוֹף
הַשָּׁמַיִם, וַיִּמָּחוּ, מִן-הָאָרֶץ; וַיִּשָּׁאֶר אַךְ-נֹחַ וַאֲשֶׁר
אִתּוֹ, בַּתֵּבָ
Vayimach et kol hayekum asher al pnei haadama...?
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