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       [1-4] The Ice Age
       =========================Postby Lloyd » Sun Dec 06, 2015 7:58 am
       ... Ice Age. I'm trying to get more discussion on this topic, so
       I brought it up on another forum too at
  HTML http://www.christianforums.com/threads/great-flood-evidence.7921217/.<br
       />One of the members there provided a link to a good article on
       the Arctic animals. It's The extinction of the woolly mammoth:
       was it a quick freeze?
  HTML http://creation.com/the-extinction-of-the-woolly-mammoth-was-it-a-quick-freeze.<br
       />I also emailed NewGeology.us ...
       - That article answers almost all of my questions, except for
       the problem of why the frozen animals' cells didn't burst. I
       don't know how certain it is that their cells didn't burst, but
       supposedly when animals' bodies freeze normally, their cells do
       burst. And it's only by flash freezing them to extremely cold
       temperatures that can prevent the cells from bursting. And
       besides unburst cells, there's said to be other evidence of
       flash freezing, namely the claims that streams were found in
       Siberia I think with fish frozen in them in medium level depths
       and, more importantly, one stream with cattle swimming in it
       with their heads above the ice and their bodies in swimming
       position.
       - Oard's Solution. The article has a novel but very plausible
       solution. It agrees that the Arctic animals migrated to the
       Arctic after the Great Flood. The Arctic Ocean remained warm for
       a few centuries and the land area around it was also warm in
       winter and summer, I guess kind of like around the Mediterranean
       Sea. Glaciation started in eastern Canada and Greenland and
       gradually spread to central Canada and the Arctic. Many of the
       animals got trapped there around the Arctic Ocean. Wind-blown
       loess and ice killed them and buried them, some while still
       standing or kneeling. Dust storms apparently can bury large
       objects sometimes. I just found an update of Oard's paper here:
  HTML https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j17_2/j17_2_74-79.pdf.
       - Remaining Doubts. I'm still not completely satisfied, as there
       still seems to be a strong possibility that the freezing was
       extremely sudden and bitter, below -150 F, and it seems
       questionable that the Arctic could provide enough vegetation in
       the winters for so many animals, and at least some of the
       animals in eastern Siberia were hit by shrapnel from meteor air
       bursts. A bison that was hit by micrometeorites appeared to
       continue living after being hit, since the bone [or horn?]
       started to grow back over the punctures.
       --------------------Postby johnm33 » Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:19 am
       __REFERENCE
       This is a piece by Ginenthal which is full of references
  HTML http://saturniancosmology.org/files/holden/velikovskianiv-no.4.txt
       __- 8. GRAND CANYON
       LK: Is it obvious that the Grand Canyon formed from dam breaks
       of the ancient lakes that previously existed north and east of
       the canyon?
       - Do you know how to calculate how soft the ground had to be in
       order for the canyon to erode so quickly and deeply?
       - And do you know how to calculate how young the sediments had
       to be in order to be that soft?
       GW: The Grand Canyon is the popular go to for both
       catastrophists and uniformitarians, so is a good place to
       discuss the mechanisms of sedimentation. I refer folks to Guy
       Berthault's sedimentology for the understanding of how multiple
       deep sedimentary layers are formed simultaneously by a moving
       current. The depositing of the sediments and subsequent draining
       of the rising plateau may have happened within weeks of each
       other, so the ground would have been adequately soft and
       immeasurably "young". As to the cementation process in rock
       formation, there is no reason to require long ages for sediment
       to become rock. We can do it in hours for a concrete sidewalk.
       How can we know this could happen in the past? The evidence is
       before our very eyes: The cement we use comes from the rock
       formations we're taking into evidence -- the rocks are full of
       these cementers, which we quarry out and grind up for our use.
       There is no mystery, these rock formations may take months, even
       years to fully cure, but why assume the hundreds of millions of
       years required by the standard model? Related, the process of
       petrifaction is accomplished in hours in the lab, under the
       right conditions and catalysts. That these conditions existed in
       the past is inferred [not proven] by the fact that we find
       petrified remains in all kinds of sedimentary materials. Again,
       no reason whatever to claim ages of millions of years except to
       support the requirements of the standard model.
       =========================Postby Lloyd » Fri Dec 11, 2015 6:40 pm
       __GRAND CANYON EROSION
       I used to think the Grand Canyon may have been carved
       electrically, but then I found out that there were two large
       ancient lakes that just happened to break open and drained
       through the Grand Canyon. They obviously drained when the
       sedimentary strata were still not very hard, which is why the
       canyon became so huge. I think that was a few centuries after
       the Great Flood, during the Shock Dynamics event.
       --------------------Postby GaryN » Mon Jun 06, 2016 2:31 pm
       __POTHOLES
       <<__Question 6 for Gordon: The Washington scablands that
       formed from the Missoula flood have potholes that formed by
       vortex cavitation during the flood, apparently, so were potholes
       in bedrock under the drift more likely form from flood than from
       glaciation? Are the scabland potholes ever filled with drift?
       Maybe this image answers the question:
  HTML http://www.paddling.net/sameboat/Images/riverpotholes10.jpg
       -
       The cobbles in that pothole will be found to be still attached
       to the bedrock, I have lots of images of the same kind of thing.
       The cobbles are of a different composition to the bedrock,
       basalt in my case, which means they were created and
       metamorphosed just where they now are. Forget water or glaciers,
       ALL rounded pebbles, cobbles, boulders were created by EM means
       in a split second.
  HTML https://www.flickr.com/photos/garyinsooke/14409266996/in/album-72157636766895323
       ____________________Postby webolife » Mon Jun 06, 2016 9:31 pm
       __POTHOLES
       I think I disagree with Gary's assessment of the included
       pebbles in the potholes. In studying eastern Washington
       potholes, and other hilly basalt areas where pebbles are also
       found, I find rather that water action is likely responsible for
       the placement of these stream-rounded non-basalt rocks. In the
       case of smaller potholes, as were pictured above, the pebbles
       are agents of cavitation, and as they are forcefully slammed
       into the basalt by the vertical action, they can become
       lodged... this is an usual occurrence, but when I've seen it,
       the pebbles are wedged into crevices or other openings in
       vesicular basalt, or just laying on the floor of or surrounding
       the rim of larger potholes. The potholes I studied are those
       adjacent to Deep Lake in the Sun Lakes State Park, and the hilly
       areas were south of Vantage around Mattawa, where I hiked to
       collect petrified wood samples.
       =========================Postby Lloyd » Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:08 pm
       __MAMMOTHS
       Frozen Mammoth Questions
       I can't figure out if the frozen Arctic animals froze during the
       Great Flood, or some centuries later. It seems they had to die
       later, since they mostly didn't drown, but this video
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IIE8UnvPUg
       suggests that they
       died during the Great Flood, when the northern continents moved
       from their formerly warmer locations to their present ones. But
       what could have caused the temperature in the Arctic then to
       suddenly go below -150 F, the temperature needed to flash freeze
       them and prevent mammoth stomach contents from beginning to
       digest or rot? Also, what made the Arctic muck and loess and ice
       pellets that killed some or most of them? The muck contains a
       lot of smashed tree and animal parts.
       --------------------Postby nick c » Tue Dec 22, 2015 11:43 am
       __MAMMOTHS
       On page 3 and 4 of this thread there was some discussion of the
       frozen wooly mammoth carcasses that are periodically found
       within the Arctic Circle.
       Previously, THE EXTINCTION OF THE MAMMOTH, By Charles Ginenthal
       was only available as a hardcopy for purchase; the book is now
       freely available on the net as a PDF here:
  HTML http://immanuelvelikovsky.com/Mammoth_01052014.pdf
       ====================postby Lloyd » Thu Mar 31, 2016 9:38 pm
       __MAMMOTHS EXTINCTION
       - In the thread, Archaeological Find Challenges Standard Geology
       at
  HTML http://www.thunderbolts.inf
       o/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16219&p=112560#p112559
       - I said: I found a good paper online by Oard that I think might
       help to get a more thorough model for ancient cataclysm
       completed. Oard's paper is at
  HTML http://creation.com/defining-the-flood-post-flood-boundary-in-sedimentary-rocks<br
       />. Maybe you've read it already.
       __MAMMOTHS
       frozen mammoths, and evidence for the very fast cataclysm that
       froze them:
  HTML http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FrozenMammoths.html
       ====================postby Lloyd » Mon Jun 06, 2016 1:29 pm
       __GREAT FLOOD VS GLACIATION
       - "NOT GLACIAL DRIFT, BUT GREAT FLOOD DRIFT"
       Problems in the Glacial Theory
       Creation Research Society Quarterly, 13(1):25-34, June 1976
       [Note: I'm not a creationist, but they published a lot of good
       science. I suspect that the great majority of glacial evidence
       is actually great flood evidence as this article explains.]
       - DRIFT
       ... A layer of unconsolidated material [called drift] ... covers
       the solid sedimentary and igneous rocks in the temperate zones
       of Europe and North America. ... A ... similar [layer] occurs in
       parts of India, in South Africa, the tropical zones of South
       America, and in many mountainous areas of the world.
       <<__Question 1 for Gordon: Do you agree that the drift in India,
       S Africa & S America suggests that the drift layer was deposited
       before the supercontinent split, because those 3 areas were
       adjacent on the supercontinent? Europe & N America were also
       adjacent. I wonder if the other mountainous areas containing
       drift are adjacent to both of those two north & south
       locations.>>
       <<__Question 2 for Gordon: Why did the drift not lithify during
       the flood? Is there any other significant amount of drift that
       wasn't deposited by the Great Flood? And why are there locations
       with no drift?>
       - The material consists of gravel, sand and clay, with many
       large boulders of variable composition, and innumerable rounded
       stones and pebbles of all sizes. Often it is hundreds of feet
       thick. Frequently stratification exists, and it is usually
       present in the sand in the pattern of cross stratification.
       - Cross stratification:
  HTML http://www.earth.northwestern.edu/individ/brad/baraboo/geology/pics/crossstrat.gif
       - Usually referred to as "drift", the material is also known as
       boulder-clay, diluvium, outwash deposits, glacial moraine, and
       till. ... In general, the landforms composed of drift have a
       remarkably fresh appearance. Although they contain loose
       material, the effects of erosion have been minimal, showing they
       could not be of great age but must have been formed recently.
       <Glacial Theory> Geologists believe that the last of the ice
       disappeared only a few thousand years ago.
       - The [layer] of drift is shaped into a wide variety of
       structures, [kames, eskers, rimmed plateaus, drumlins, flutings,
       striations, potholes & erratics, as follows below]....
       <<__Question 3 for Gordon: Can you explain how a megatsunami
       could produce each of the drift types discussed below, i.e.
       kames, eskers, rimmed plateaus, drumlins, flutings, striations,
       potholes & erratics? Or can you give a source that explains them
       all?>
       - Images of kames, eskers, rimmed plateaus, drumlins, flutings,
       striations, potholes & erratics:
       - Kame:
  HTML https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/ndnotes/Veblens/Images/Diagram-a-1%20copy.jpg
       - Esker:
  HTML http://8c4625.medialib.glogster.com/media/b1c37420af793bb953a2b933c638f1dc0fc6756daff86b6338c9dd65cdcd4599/esker-with-permission.jpg
       - Drumlin:
  HTML http://www.geo-logic.org/Glacial%20Geology/cd33022%20drumlin%20example001,%20www.royalalbertmuseum.ca.gif
       - Fluting:
  HTML http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_7CSUyHA0I8/T_8GPcCqaVI/AAAAAAAAAdA/xIt2PSh4Y5E/s1600/GlacialFluting.jpg
       - Striations:
  HTML https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6174/6139928577_aca529683e_b.jpg
       - Potholes:
  HTML https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/ae04a988-67fd-4e09-89ef-314ad88f5b75.jpg
       - Erratics:
  HTML http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/32/x150832-004-CFC3FEC0.jpg.pagespeed.ic.I5bgaOeS82.jpg
       - KAMES
       - Kames are conical mounds usually composed of sandy material.
       <Glacial Theory> [Kames] are thought to have been caused by the
       dumping of glacial debris when the great ice sheets of the
       glacial age melted.
       - ESKERS
       - Eskers are long, winding ridges of gravel and sand....
       Sometimes branching eskers occur. The eskers are known to
       stretch for great distances, go up and down hills, and disappear
       and occur again further on.
       <Glacial Theory> [Eskers] are explained in the glacial theory as
       the debris of rivers formed in or on the glaciers, that was let
       down when the ice melted.
       - RIMMED PLATEAUS
       In the prairie regions of Canada and in the northern states of
       the United States there are various kinds of rimmed plateau(s),
       composed of drift. Often these have central depressions
       containing clay sediments. The rims are often composed of stony
       material and contorted drift layers. Some of the rimmed
       plateau(s) or prairie mounds are of large size, with areas of
       several square miles, and may reach as much as 150 feet above
       the surrounding hummocky and pitted regions.
       Hummocky:
  HTML http://www.seddepseq.co.uk/SEDIMENTOLOGY/Sedimentology_Features/Strat_Bedforms/Hummock1.jpg
       <Glacial Theory> The rimmed plateau(s) and prairie mounds are
       explained in the glacial theory as landforms created during the
       melting of the great ice-sheets. The glaciers, it is believed,
       sometimes melted in such a way that isolated blocks of ice were
       formed, that wasted away and deposited their debris in various
       kinds of rimmed structures and plateau(s).
       - DRUMLINS, FLUTINGS
       - Drumlins are hills shaped like the inverted bowl of a
       spoon.... Glacial flutings are similar, elongated parallel
       ridges and troughs. Individual flutings may stretch for several
       miles in the prairies of Canada and parts of North Dakota and
       Montana.
       Drumlins and flutings are ... streamlined landforms ... often
       composed of drift, but many are bedrock or partly bedrock. Some
       have a mass of bedrock at their upstream ends. ... In drumlin
       swarms the drumlins all have locally parallel orientation ...
       sometimes covering thousands of square miles.
       <Glacial Theory> Drumlins and flutings are explained as the
       effects of the movement of the ice in the glacial theory. The
       ice-sheet flowing across the countryside shaped and moulded the
       rocks and previously deposited layers of glacial debris into
       these remarkable ... landforms....
       <<__Question 4 for Gordon: Could the parallel Nebraska dunes be
       drumlins or flutings? Is there any way an ice sheet could move
       significantly and streamline any of these drift types?>
       - STRIATIONS
       - Striations are frequently present on the surface of the
       bedrock underlying the layer of drift. In some areas the bare
       rocks uncovered by drift are also scratched and grooved, as if
       by movement of stones across them.... Within the layers of
       gravel in the drift there are many rocks and boulders that are
       striated.
       <Glacial Theory> These are thought to have been transported by
       ice and abraded in the process. ... [Bedrock surface striations
       are] attributed to the ice-sheets in the glacial theory [with]
       large numbers of stones being carried along in its base, that
       gouged the bedrock as the ice-sheet went along.
       <<__Question 5 for Gordon: How could megatsunamis make
       striations on bedrock and on the rocks that they push around?>
       - POTHOLES
       - In the bedrock underneath the drift, and at many places where
       the bedrock is exposed, there are deep vertical potholes, ...
       usually filled up with the drift material, sand and gravel and
       large boulders.
       <Glacial Theory> [Potholes] are often explained by reference to
       the glacial theory. These are attributed to glacial "moulins" or
       waterfalls tumbling down crevasses in the ice, that eroded the
       bedrock and caused these deep holes.
       <<__Question 6 for Gordon: The Washington scablands that formed
       from the Missoula flood have potholes that formed by vortex
       cavitation during the flood, apparently, so were potholes in
       bedrock under the drift more likely form from flood than from
       glaciation? Are the scabland potholes ever filled with drift?
       Maybe this image answers the question:
  HTML http://www.paddling.net/sameboat/Images/riverpotholes10.jpg
       >
       - ERRATICS
       - Large boulders, ... known as "erratics" ..., are found in some
       regions with a composition quite different from that of the
       bedrock [and other drift] in the vicinity. These may sometimes
       be as large as houses, and are usually rounded, though some are
       of irregular shape. In the drift there are stones and pebbles of
       varying composition and appearance, but most of the rocks
       reflect the composition of the bedrock underneath.
       <Glacial Theory> The large boulders ... are considered to have
       been transported from regions afar by the moving ice-sheets. ...
       <<__Question 7 for Gordon: Why is most drift of the same rock
       type as the bedrock under it? If the flood transported large
       erratic boulders, shouldn't smaller kinds of drift material also
       be erratic?>
       ... ... Flint provides a table of some examples of ... erratics
       ... [here modified & supplemented]:
       - Erratics
       Moved .. Uplifted
       distance: height: .. From:
       > 18 km; 1000 m; Mount Katahdin, Maine
       > 100 km; 900 m; Adirondack Mountains, New York
       160 km; 500 m; Allegheny Plateau, central New York
       80 km; .. 900 m; Killington Peak, Green Mountains, Vermont
       1,300 km; 1,300 m; Rocky Mountains of Alberta
       -----------------------------
       Moved dist: .. To: .... From:
       100-1250 km; UK-Russia; Scandinavia & Finland
       1000 km; .... Missouri; Ontario
       ... km; ..............; Alberta
       ... km; ..............; Manitoba
       ... km; ..............; Northwest Territories
       ... km; ..............; [Ireland &] Wales
       ... km; ..............; Northern Germany
       - These erratics, [many] perched higher than their sources, if
       they are to be attributed to ice, would require that the
       direction of the flow of the ice was opposite to the slope of
       the land. Flint suggested that the stones were carried in the
       base of the ice, which flowed uphill, rather than that they
       somehow migrated upwards through the ice. ... How Could the Ice
       Move Uphill?... Howorth accused the glacialists of departing
       from the principles of physics and appealing to "transcendental
       causes". ... Howorth believed that the motivation of geologists
       who favored the glacial theory was their reluctance to accept a
       catastrophic alternative. ... In his book Ice or Water he
       [said:] ... Their real inspiration has been the fervent hope
       embodied in the words with which Sir R. Ball concludes his
       ill-fated book on the Glacial Age. "The appeal to ice removed
       the glacial period from the position of a 'catastrophic'
       phenomenon. It placed the ice-sheet as an implement at the
       disposal of the geological uniformitarian."
       __ARCTIC CARNAGE
       -
  HTML http://saturniancosmology.org/files/thoth/thotiv02.txt
       - THE DEMANDS OF THE SATURNIAN CONFIGURATION THEORY: Part II
       ... THE ARCTIC CARNAGE
       ... Arctic muck ... covers no less than one seventh of the land
       surface of earth, all of which ... lies within the Arctic
       Circle. Composed mainly of silt, sand, pebbles, and boulders, it
       is often accompanied by 'preserved, semi-decayed, or fully
       decayed vegetable and animal matter.' Its depth, in some places,
       'has always caused even the most open-minded geologists to
       boggle.' The Russians, who have conducted prolonged studies on
       this muck, have in some places drilled down to more than 4000
       feet without reaching rock bottom. Entire forests have been
       found buried in this area, including plum trees complete with
       their leaves and fruits, to say nothing of palm trees and huge
       exotic ferns ... [as well as animals like] the mammoth. ...
       [T]he Arctic Ocean [itself is] an immense basin scoured out of
       the living rock. [The north polar tornado/vortex did all that.]
       ... Entire forests in an uprooted condition, bituminous trunks
       and fossilized charcoal, are everywhere [in the Arctic]
       intermingled with petrified ash, and veins of ice, and sand that
       has turned into sandstone. Among this colossal devastation are
       found the skeletons of mammoths, rhinoceroses, bison, and
       horses.
       ... In the Mahabharata we read that Mandara, that churning
       mountain, was 'crowded with tusked animals.' Moreover, when the
       churning began, great trees spun off, were crushed against one
       another, lightning flashed forth, a fire blazed burning the
       elephants and other beasts, 'and all the various creatures there
       lost their life's breath.' The water pouring from above
       eventually dowsed the fire and flowed into the ocean.
       ... THE ONSLAUGHT OF ICE
       ... How did it all freeze? ... This is an easy question to
       answer. [The ancients] had long associated ... Saturn [on the
       polar vortex] with snow and hail, ... cold and moist, ... cold
       and windy, ... cold and frozen, [a] cold star. ... William of
       Conches ... tells us that 'Saturn is called cold not because he
       is inherently cold himself but because he causes cold.' ...
       [T]he Modoc Indians of southern Oregon and northern California
       [said] the Chief of the Sky Spirits drilled a hole in the sky
       with a rotating stone through which he pushed snow and ice to
       form a mound which almost touched the sky. ... Dolph ****
       informs us: "... we cannot find evidence that Earth's climate
       grew cold before the advent of an ice age; ... on the contrary,
       climate grew colder only after the ice arrived and only to the
       extent that the ice itself refrigerated the Earth.... Obviously
       the perma-frost accumulated from the bottom upward -- not by
       freezing from the top downward." What this means is that the
       detritus which forms the permafrost was frozen as it was being
       laid down. ... What I am claiming is that the snow, ice, and
       sleet came from the axial vortex when it was severed for the
       last time because that is where a vast quantity of terrestrial
       moisture had been stored.
       ... The Muria [tribe of] India tell without ambiguity how [the
       polar god] Mahapurub turned the world topsy-turvy. ... [The Hopi
       said] "The world, with no one to control it, teetered off
       balance, spun around crazily, then rolled over twice. Mountains
       plunged into seas with a great splash, seas and lakes sloshed
       over the land; and as the world spun through cold and lifeless
       space it froze into solid ice."
       ====================postby Lloyd » Wed Feb 24, 2016 3:04 am
       __ANTARCTICA
       - Grey Cloud wrote: Does Antarctica Have A Hidden Layer Of
       Meteorites Below Its Surface?
  HTML http://www.universetoday.com/127492/does-antarctica-have-a-hidden-layer-of-meteorites-below-its-surface.
       - Did yous see my recent post, Huge Canyon and Crater in
       Antarctica, at
  HTML http://www.thunderbolts.inf
       o/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1462&p=111136#p111136?
       The crater seems to have been discovered in 2006 under a km of
       ice in Wilkesland, while the canyon, over twice as long as the
       Grand Canyon, but not quite as deep, is in Princess Elizabeth
       land[?], and was written up last October or so in Geology
       magazine, I think. The canyon and a fairly large lake are also
       under a similar depth of ice. The crater is larger than any
       other known crater in the world at about 250 miles in diameter,
       but it's only about half as wide as the Somali Basin crater that
       Mike Fischer located off east Africa.
       - The electric charge on bolides comes from friction in the
       atmosphere, as Charles Chandler explains in great detail, not
       from electric currents in space, as is theorized but never
       explained in any detail. The charge does build up enough to
       cause thermonuclear explosions, either from impacting Earth's
       surface, or from internal detonation as an airburst. The charge
       is great enough to carve out rilles near the point of impact.
       --------------------Postby Grey Cloud » Sat Dec 12, 2015 9:20 am
       __GC CRITICISMS
       ... Atlantis. Why would Solon (Athenian) or the Egyptian priest
       be using a Cretan script?
       - The Oera Linda book, while very interesting, is of disputed
       provenance. 'Altland' = old land and has nothing to do with
       Atlantis (the book makes no such claims or inference). If memory
       serves, it was in the North Sea or possibly the Baltic. There
       were elephants and coconuts on Atlantis (according to Plato).
       Incidentally, there is a similar English book known variously as
       The Kolbrin, The Book of Kolbrin and the Kolbrin Bible, which
       contains the story (twice) of something called 'the Destroyer'
       which arrives in the sky and destroys much of life on Earth.
       - Aquarius is not a water sign, it is an air sign.
       - The biblical flood story is a straight lift of the Sumerian
       story from the Epic of Gilgamesh. Mount Ararat was not called
       Ararat in ancient times. Wasn't the OT Ark of equal length and
       width? In the Phoenician version, they, a sea-faring people,
       take the vessel out for sea trials before the flood and it's
       dimensions are more realistic.
       - Khem is as far as I know the 'black land'. Egyptian 'Thoth',
       Greek 'Hermes' and Hebrew 'Cush' have no known etymological or
       philological connection.
       - If you are going to use the OT as a source then I suggest the
       Septuagint as it is the earliest version or at least compare
       various versions. The KJV is probably the worst
       translation-wise.
       - Virgin. This is a complicated or complex subject. It can refer
       to the constellation Virgo and also the universe or the soul for
       example. e.g. the virgin mother-goddess (the universe) gives
       birth but remains in her original condition - think closed
       system.
       - "fountains of the great deep". What would Sumerians/Hebrews
       know of mid-ocean rift zones? Or if they did know, how would a
       people living in southern Iraq/Middle East know they had opened?
       To me 'great deep' would refer to space.
       - I don't subscribe to Plate Tectonic theory. To me it makes
       more sense that earthquakes cause the cracks rather than the
       cracks causing the quakes. Could someone explain the mechanism
       for the plates pushing against each other? If the Earth is
       revolving on its axis at over 1,000 mph then would not
       centrifugal force pull them apart? ...
       - CATASTROPHISM WEAKEST POINTS. On the science side there is a
       necessity to accept some mainstream science whilst at the same
       time rejecting some. On the ancient textual side there is the
       infuriating lack of dates, the sheer volume and diversity of the
       sources and the dubious translations. ...
       - Not sure where you are getting the idea that this was one-off
       event. The ancient textual evidence points to at least two.
       Science points to several. e.g. Middle Bronze-Age collapse and
       Late Bronze-Age collapse. The MBA and LBA collapses happened in
       the eastern Med/ME, China and northern Europe. They may well
       have affected other regions, e.g. the Americas and Africa but
       scholars tend to not mention these.
       - Rather than global flood I tend to think more in terms of
       global flooding. e.g. There are three separate floods in Greek
       myth - of Ogyges, Dardanus and Deucalion. Ogyges was something
       which happened to Attica; Dardanus lived on Samothrace and ended
       up in Anatolia, giving his name to Dardania and founding the
       original city of Troy; Deucalion is Thessaly and is corroborated
       by modern geology. The plain of Thessaly is a dried up lake bed.
       Lake was surrounded by moutains, quake split the mountains (Vale
       of Tempe?), water exited. ...
       - Never yet come across an ancient text referring to Saturn as
       the first sun. In fact I rarely come across mentions of Saturn
       at all. The main actors appear to be Venus, Mars, Jupiter and
       the Sun (this one). El is the Phoenician(?) word for Lord.
       - My current focus of study in on the LBA collapse in the
       eastern Med/ME because a) there are more sources and more
       English translations available and b) it can be tied to actual
       known historical events if not concrete dates.
       =========================Postby Lloyd » Sat Dec 12, 2015 7:22 pm
       __GC CRITICISMS REPLIES
       ... 'Altland' = old land ... LK: It could have been the land
       between Britain and Europe that flooded, could it not?
       - GC: Aquarius is not a water sign, it is an air sign. LK: But I
       think Gray was saying that the Great Flood started when the Sun
       was in Aquarius. ...
       - LK: ... I'm pretty sure the ark was said to be much longer
       than wide. ...
       - LK: I agree the great deep probably referred to space. I had a
       thread here about Barbara Walker's book, Women's Encyclopedia of
       Myths and Secrets. The deep or great deep was said to refer to
       space, or the heavens, and was thought of as an ocean. I'm not
       sure about the fountains, but they may have referred to the
       fountains or splashes of meteors from space hitting the
       terrestrial ocean. Gordon says the Hebrew word, matar, likely
       meant meteors.
       - GC: I don't subscribe to Plate Tectonic theory. ... LK: There
       is no subduction, except that plates can slide over each other,
       i.e. North America over the Pacific. It looks like subduction at
       the plate boundary, but the Pacific plate isn't subducting, it's
       moving horizontally under North America. Charles Chandler
       explained how the plates can continue to ratchet over each other
       via electrical tidal forces. The Shock Dynamics video at
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       shows how an asteroid impact likely broke
       up the Supercontinent and caused rapid continental drift.
       - GC: ... the Rockies and Andes are new. ... LK: All of the
       mountain ranges are new, from about 4,000 years ago, while the
       Flood likely occurred less than 4,400 years ago. ...
       - GC: ... global flooding. ... LK: A lot of smaller floods
       occurred after the Great Flood. The Mediterranean Sea I think
       would have flooded shortly after the Shock Dynamics event. The
       Black Sea likely flooded after that. The Grand and Hopi Lakes
       breached and carved the Grand Canyon soon after the Shock
       Dynamics event, I think. The other inland lakes in the western
       U.S. drained around then too, I presume. ...
       - GC: ... I rarely come across mentions of Saturn at all. ...
       LK: The Sun in the various languages initially referred to
       Saturn. That applies to Sol, Helios, Ra and others. And I just
       read today that "Cronos [or Kronos - the Greek name of Saturn]
       is called El by the Phoenicians." [W.A.Heidel, The Day of
       Yahweh, p470]. I read that in Cardona's book, God Star. And the
       book shows that Saturn was the main god of the ancients.
       --------------------Postby Grey Cloud » Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:16 am
       __GC CHRONOLOGY
       ... My views? Multiple catastrophes with the last major one
       approx 12,000 years ago. The last of the lesser approx 1200BCE.
       I'm more interested in the human side of things rather than the
       Earth/science side.
       - ... If there was a 'global' flood then it would have been
       12000 ya. It can't have been either the MBA or LBA collapses as
       there were still several peoples, eg, Egyptians, Indians etc who
       didn't completely collapse. ...
       --------------------Postby Grey Cloud » Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:37 am
       ... (As I see it) Venus and Mars were definitely involved in the
       LBA collapse as were Jupiter and the Sun. Homer makes this
       clear. Whether Venus was involved in any of the previous
       incidents is hard to say partly because it is difficult to know
       in which time period a story takes place.
       --------------------Postby Grey Cloud » Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:44 pm
       ... Nanodiamond-Rich Layer across Three Continents Consistent
       with Major Cosmic Impact at 12,800 Cal BP
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