I think Robinson is running out of ideas in his investigations. I never liked Baldric. Vera -----Original Message----- From: dyfed-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dyfed-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Venita Sent: 16 September 2013 17:56 To: Dale Davies Cc: dyfed@rootsweb.com; 'Robert Williams' Subject: Re: [Dyfed] Biblical matters. Along with creation stories, all cultures have flood stories to tell, and all of them very similar to what is recorded in the Bible. I find it very interesting that wherever scientists go, from the lowest elevation to the highest, they find evidence that that part of the world was once under water. Just saying. Venita On Sep 15, 2013, at 5:33 AM, Dale Davies <dale_j@brisvegas.org> wrote: > Oddly enough, that program was available here thanks to the wonders of the > internet. Robinson was referring to a reconstructed scenario of a very large > tsunami triggered by a large undersea landslide on the edge of the > continental shelf off Norway, some large-distance in time BC. They worked > "Doggerland" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland ) and so on into it as > well. A more modest effort only a few years ago off the northern coast of > New Guinea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Papua_New_Guinea_tsunami ) > demonstrated that you don't need a Tohoku-scale earthquake > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami ) to > get a devastating tsunami. > > Beyond the other end of Europe in Mesopotamia it would be unlikely to have > excited anyone. Cameron (as in find-the-Titanic) et al have tried to float > (ahem, sorry) the idea that the final in-filling of the Black Sea - about > half as far back in time and a great deal closer to Babylon - inspired the > legend. Still another and far more boring idea has been that the > Tigris/Euphrates valleys, rather flat and close together around the middle > and bottom of Mesopotamia, had a meteorologically ordinary but epic, large > and devastating flood, that happened to occur during a period when people > were inclined to write about it. > > Yet to surface in this context - but it will, it will - is the post-glacial > flooding of most of the upper Persian Gulf. Although slow, such a process > would have been noticeable on the scale of a human lifetime; northern > Australia etc ("Sahul") must have gone under at a rate in the order of a > kilometre a year. That's noticeable. Anyway, the Gulf is an area some > evolutionary anthropologists suspect out-loud may have been a human refuge, > during glacial conditions, from the hyper-arid conditions that overtook > Arabia. This is part of an "out-of-Africa by an earlier southern route" > hypothesis. "Eden" has been placed by some in the southern parts of > Mesopotamia: adjacent to the hypothesised flooded refuge. > > Then there're the flooded "city" remains off Mumbai. > > Personally, I'm with the cloudburst theory. Or the mushrooms. Ockham's > razor. > > cheers > Dale > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dyfed-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dyfed-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf >> Of Robert Williams >> Sent: Sunday, 15 September 2013 8:06 PM >> To: dyfed@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [Dyfed] Biblical matters. >> >> Mention of "The Great Flood"had me thinking of the Programme that was on > the >> Telly a while ago. >> I don't know what this programme was called,but it was introduced by Tony >> ROBINSON, The Ex-Baldrick Wallah,mate of Rowan ATKINSON. >> >> Anyway,I only caught the last few seconds of this programme,and he > mentioned a >> similar "Great Flood"of 14,500 years ago. >> >> Did anyone see it? >> >> It mentioned that a vast area of Canada had a sudden global warming job, > which >> melted a vast area of ice. >> >> This Ice was of the Fresh Water Variety, >> >> And with this melting,a Tsunami happened which caused all this water to > rush >> across the Atlantic and swept across Europe, seperating The United Kingdom >> from the land mass of France,Thereby causing the Water between Dover and >> Calais. >> >> This same Tsunami carried on further inland and finally ended up to form a >> freshwater lake in the Caspian sea, or some other Freshwater Lake over > there? >> >> [My Geography is sadly lacking since leaving School over 50 years ago!] >> >> The bottom line to all of this being, >> >> Was THIS the Great Flood of Biblical times perhaps? >> >> Comments? >> >> Cheers Graham. >> >> Graham Williams, >> Glam;FHS# 551. >> of Canton,Cardiff. >> >> ================================ >> Dyfed list REVISED resources http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html >> [Dec2012] >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DYFED- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the >> subject and the body of the message > > > ================================ > Dyfed list REVISED resources http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html [Dec2012] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DYFED-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ================================ Dyfed list REVISED resources http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html [Dec2012] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DYFED-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message