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