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To: Greg or e who wrote (13887)	2/22/2011 10:27:27 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	of 69300

Human modernity might be as much as fifty thousand years old or more. We have no way of knowing. Human history is a more restricted category, since it implies human stories that have survived to the present day. Since we don't have any stories that can plausibly be assigned to the time before the ice sheets receded at the end of the last great glaciation (maybe twelve thousand years) ... I'm operating from an educated guess in re the greatest assignable age of the flood story. So suggesting that the mountains might have been significantly different in height and shape such a short time ago is without support from any independent earth scientists. I understand your central premise about the resurrection miracle being the hinge. Nonetheless the emphasis on the Bible's verity is also an indispensable plank of Christian doctrine. I'm thinking about the flood in a sort of reverse: testing its plausibility from what I know of geology, history and human experience in general. If I find that the Bible won't get the things that I can check right to any recognizable degree, my willingness to trust its account of the big things is undercut. Reagan had a marvelously pithy aphorism that I apply to this and some other situations: Trust, but verify.

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