<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:56 AM, hankman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hankman@bell.net">hankman@bell.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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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></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How do you translate Gen 7:23 - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: David; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">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</span></div>
</div>Vayimach et kol hayekum asher al pnei haadama...?</div>