"thunder" wrote in message
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:30:21 +0000, Calif Bill wrote:


Believe it or not, the boat design would have been barge like. As to
world floods, yes there have been. At least once, Indian legends in
South America talk of a great flood. If you look at the coal seams in
Kentucky, Appalachia they are all at about the same elevation and there
had to be huge amounts of lumber piled up to make the size seams they
find. Think of a tidal wave washing over the earth. Maybe Noah saw the
big asteroid coming to clean up the earth?

As you probably know, much of N. America was once an inland sea/swamp,
resulting in those coal deposits.

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/nam.html

There has been some speculation that the Black Sea deluge theory was the
cause of Noah's flood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_theory




The inland swamp is true, but not to make the coal seams in the Kentucky,
east region. Most are all at the same elevation and seem to be against a
mountain in the eastern US. The Montana / Wyoming coal deposits are more
likely swamp remains. The Black Sea deluge may be the reason for the Noah's
flood, but South America has the same tales. Seems strange that 2 very
widely separated cultures and land masses share the same story if it was the
Black Sea Deluge.

Will be interesting in 10,000 years if the Rift Valley flood will spawn the
same legends. I think it is the Rift Valley in Africa that is separated
from the salt water by a narrow peninsula of land that is already leaking
salt water in to the valley.