RadioBanter - View Single Post - Laying Waste to Frank Of Silliland's Silliness

September 7th 05, 02:13 AM

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Mike Coslo wrote:
wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote:

When it gets fun is when they try to explain the
biblical flood as a verbatim event. The have yet to answer
two simple questions.

Where did the water come from?
Where did the water go?

I haven't found one yet that can answer the question, How much water
would it take to cover the earth from sea level to 1 foot over the top
of Mount Everest? And What effects would this extra mass have
on the
Earth?

Well, if you melted the polar ice caps, the oceans would rise some, but
not nearly enough. Precipitate out all the atmospheric water and the
oceans would rise some more.

So the environmentalists are all wet?

But to flood the entire earth requires much more water than that.

The flood story may have its origin in reality.

There is some evidence that the Black Sea was once a fresh water lake -
and a lot smaller than it is today. This would require that the strait
near Constantinople/Istanbul was an isthmus back then.

Think hard. What would that area be called today?

Hint: We spent most of the cold war counting the Russian ships and subs
passing through there. And we're almost approaching a radio-related
topic.

The evidence says that when the oceans rose at the end of the last
ice age, water from the Mediterranean rose to the point where it
overflowed the isthmus and flowed into what is now the Black Sea -
raising its level and flooding any low=ying lakeside communities.
Which have been well below sea level ever since.

(sound familiar)

Sounds like a big flood.

Such a catastrophe would have been remembered a long time.

Perhaps even to the present day. Especially if it covered all of the
known world at the time.