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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Yes....but where to keep the Blue Whales is problematic...and is just two of each being inclusive   |
In the biblical story certain animals did not have a limit of two..somehow I suspect the limit not did not apply to farm animals...but really your problem today in building an Ark will be many fold so maybe looking for a site near Mikes hill top could achieve a similar goal.
Although the biblical flood story is written off by many folk because of the suggestion that it covered everything it would seem there is evidence for a dramatic sea level rise some 13000 years ago..I have read various accounts that sea levels went up by 30 feet in a couple of days, supposedly supported by ice core samples and that they went up hundreds of feet over two years.. just a 30 ft rise would get a pretty good myth going ..imagine if that occurred today the story would get told that the whole world went under in only a couple of generations.
The flood story is found in many cultures so one wonders.
The Ark inclusion may have started as some farmer transporting animals that survived . .who knows but the folk who talk about this big flood seem to have more than casual speculation...the scientist I refer to not the religious account...but it certainly appears in the Sumarian tablets...the thing is with history you should not jump on a particular hobby horse as even with good evidence speculation is really a big part of the game.
Alex