Re: Why the Flood can not be in Mesopotamia

Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Mon, 10 Feb 1997 08:58:50 -0500

At 5:17 PM 2/8/97, Glenn Morton wrote:
>Can the Mesopotamian Flood account for these facts? It can
>account for 8 people on the Ark and animals on the Ark. But it
>can not explain how the Flood could last for an entire year nor
>can it account for where the Ark landed at the same time.

Allow me to respectfully point out that whether "Foundation, Fall and
Flood" accounts properly for the landing place of the ark is debatable.
You had the ark landing on the North African shore of the Mediterranean,
which would have looked to Noah, living in the deep valley that was the
Mediterranean before it flooded, like a mountain range. You speculated
that perhaps that "mountain range" was known to Noah as the mountains of
Ararat. If you allow such a change in the names of geographical features,
perhaps you shouldn't insist that other accounts mean the region around Mt.
Ararat in present day Turkey when they say "the mountains of Ararat".

Bill Hamilton
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