Garden of Eden lays in the Persian Gulf? Not a religious thread.

[sapphi_snake]

padib said:

sapphi_snake said:

padib said:

Now the fascinating thing about the biblical account is that if my makeover theory is correct, then the rivers described in genesis (Tigris, Euphrates, etc.) should not exist post-flood, yet they do. The only other possibility is that the mountain shapes and crevaces surrounding the rivers predated the flood, and were not affected by the flood. This is possible only if you consider that the rivers do not follow a fault line and hence are not part of the mountains that were shaped due to plate collisions during the flood.

Really? Is that the only other possibility you can think of?

And more importantly, are you sure you wanna be known as 'small p'?

Hahaha, I never saw that coming :D

I guess the other, but less respectable possibility is that the rivers existed pre-flood in one form, and reappeared post-flood in another form and location. I'm going biblically speacking here.

As for my first and more plausible exception clause, here is why fault lines matter (I say biblically speaking supported by this):

11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

If we map that description to a natural phenomenon, it sounds like volcanic and tectonic activity, with water entraped below many areas of the earth's surface, causing bursting and steaming.

You're still not seeing the other possibility I was talkign about, small p (sorry, it's already catching on ).