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From: mross@goldengate.net (Michael King Ross)
Subject: Re: Noah & other bible myths
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:06:06 GMT
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greer@hiwaay.net wrote:


>We have a man who built an ark large enough to hold a male and female 
>pair of each and every one of the millions of animal species that exists 
>on earth,

Actually, it was 7 pairs of some animals, and this boat was made of
wood.   With hand-tools.   By one small family.

> enough feed for forty nights and forty days, 

actually, it _rained_ for 40 days & nights, and then the boat was
adrift for about a year.

>a god of war that 
>hauls the sun across the sky each day in his horse-drawn chariot . . . 
>oops . . . that's another fable. 

"It's turtles all the way down!"



'king Ross


