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Dr Adequate
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Message 9 of 14 (690694)
02-15-2013 11:42 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by kofh2u
02-15-2013 11:21 AM


How is it far fetched when we read that the actual mass extinction of all humanoids did actually occur with a "flood" of Modern Homo sapiens that covered the whole earth, as they rained down upon the earth to the highest mountain tops during a 40 thousands year period of time?
Why did I suddenly think of the Weather Girls?
It seems a pretty cleverly couched analogy or even literal report on paleontology ...
So cleverly couched that you're the first and so far only person in history to understand it.
That wouldn't actually be clever, would it? Why not just say what happened?
In this "literal report on paleontology", in which the flood waters apparently stand for H. sapiens, what is the interpretation of, for example, Genesis 13-14? "By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry." That would have to correspond to the complete extinction of H. sapiens, if this "literal report" is to be consistent in its analogy.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 11 of 14 (690702)
02-15-2013 12:00 PM
Reply to: Message 10 by kofh2u
02-15-2013 11:53 AM


Re: Glenn Morton at evcforum.net
There is a gnere of literary works which communicate idea from the writer to his readers using the Literary Arts in a way that allows publication to egt past the always present editors or fire ideas ver the head of people locked in a paradigm of their times which would road block a more direct itemization if what was really being said.
And there is apparently also a "gnere", or even a genre, of literary works which totally fail to communicate ideas from the writer to his readers. And if your interpretation of Genesis was correct, which it isn't, then Genesis would be a shining example of this genre.

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