<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">How do you explain the apparent evidence of continuous human habitation,</div>
going back thousands of years before the mabul, in the Americas, Australia<br>
and Asia -- and the lack of evidence of any interruption and world-wide<br>
wipeout of human life ca. 4000 years ago?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. <div>
<br><div>*** Harchinam<br> out in harei yehuda</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>