On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:13:55 +1000, Stanislaw Flatto <> wrote:

>Tintin wrote:

>>

>> My memory is a little fuzzy on some of the exact details, as this

>> information came from a documentary I saw a few months ago.

>Look in recent May-June-July "National Geographic". The report is there.

>As to the question posted in title, of course there were, their names

>Shem, Ham and Yefet.

Isn't it funny how one person posits an idea that the flood might have been the Black Sea, conveniently forgetting that the flood DID subside, and the relative speed at which some people seize upon the idea as "gospel-fact" and an unassailable truth, which, more than likely, was not the intention of the writer.

If you want to know what happened to the dinosaurs, read the Bible. What does it say?

GEN 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

The Bible is saying that the "giants in the earth" were not just men but were also all kinds of flora and fauna. It was the flood that destroyed them because they were so violent, as it says;

GEN 6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. GEN 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

And Judaism begins its calendar, now almost the year 5762, from the COMPLETION of creation, and not from Day 1. Some Rabbis have even suggested that the universe is 14 billion years old, such suggestions having been made over 1000 years ago.

Now, if Christians paid more time to reading and learning ALL the Bible instead of looking for only those passages that justify the existence of their god/saviour, they might be a little more knowledgeable.

Les Brown