Comment Re:which creationism? (Score 1) 666
In regards to your query about how much water it would take to cover the entire earth, I would like to point out for your edification, one small flaw in your assumptions.
You are assuming that the flood of Babylonian and Herbrew myth did indeed cover the whole earth. You are looking at this from your "small world" perspective of the 20th century.
Just because you as a person of this time can get from where you are to any other place on the planet within 24 hours does not mean that the world was just as accessible to ancient peoples.
To people of times past, places the size of some of the states in the USA would have been "the whole world." For many, "the whole world" was whatever had been explored around their immediate kingdoms. When such people wrote "...and the water covered the whole face of the earth," they meant THEIR world, not YOUR world.
How much water did it take to flood the states surrounding the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers several years ago? I bet it was enough to completely drown out some small countries...possibly even enough to put most or all of ancient Babylon under water. To the Babylonians, their entire world was flooded. To us, it was "just a few states."
The world today is not the same place it was all those years ago, and neither are we as humans the same. We live in a time where the world and its geography is no longer a total impediment to us. Thus, our view of the world, and our interpretations of writings about this world are tainted by our current "small world" culture.
One must always take past AND present culture into account when reviewing history and mythology.
ta,
Jason
# Jason A. Dour
You are assuming that the flood of Babylonian and Herbrew myth did indeed cover the whole earth. You are looking at this from your "small world" perspective of the 20th century.
Just because you as a person of this time can get from where you are to any other place on the planet within 24 hours does not mean that the world was just as accessible to ancient peoples.
To people of times past, places the size of some of the states in the USA would have been "the whole world." For many, "the whole world" was whatever had been explored around their immediate kingdoms. When such people wrote "...and the water covered the whole face of the earth," they meant THEIR world, not YOUR world.
How much water did it take to flood the states surrounding the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers several years ago? I bet it was enough to completely drown out some small countries...possibly even enough to put most or all of ancient Babylon under water. To the Babylonians, their entire world was flooded. To us, it was "just a few states."
The world today is not the same place it was all those years ago, and neither are we as humans the same. We live in a time where the world and its geography is no longer a total impediment to us. Thus, our view of the world, and our interpretations of writings about this world are tainted by our current "small world" culture.
One must always take past AND present culture into account when reviewing history and mythology.
ta,
Jason
# Jason A. Dour
