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@Dr.Franklin
How wonderful!
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@disgusted
Yay!
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@Dr.Franklin
I have to add that to the list. It is so funny.
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@disgusted
I'm flattered
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@Dr.Franklin
Another one. bwuahaHAHAHAHA
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@disgusted
thank you
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@keithprosser
I don't know if that is what you had in mind.
Like I have said. The first I heard of the Thera eruption theory was over 30 years ago.
I have stretched myself and read your link dated 2002. It's not over 30 years old and I imaging it (the programm Moses, which is presented by Jeremy Bowen, the former Middle East correspondent, will be broadcast on BBC1 on Dec 1) was rehash of the earlier programm I mentioned using todays computer garphics for effect https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1412815/Biblical-plagues-and-parting-of-Red-Sea-caused-by-volcano.html Some 30+years earlier.
Fresh evidence that the Biblical plagues and the parting of the Red Sea were natural events rather than myths or miracles is to be presented in a new BBC documentary.
Moses, which will be broadcast next month, will suggest that much of the Bible story can be explained by a single natural disaster, a huge volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini in the 16th century BC.
Using computer-generated imagery pioneered in Walking With Dinosaurs, the programme tells the story of how Moses led the Hebrews out of Egypt after a series of plagues had devastated the country. But it also uses new scientific research to argue that many of the events surrounding the exodus could have been triggered by the eruption, which would have been a thousand times more powerful than a nuclear bomb.
Dr Daniel Stanley, an oceanographer who has found volcanic shards in Egypt that he believes are linked to the explosion, tells the programme: "I think it would have been a frightening experience. It would have been heard. The blast ash would have been felt."
Computer simulations by Mike Rampino, a climate modeller from New York University, show that the resulting ash cloud could have plunged the area into darkness, as well as generating lightning and hail, two of the 10 plagues.
The cloud could have also reduced the rainfall, causing a drought. If the Nile had then been poisoned by the effects of the eruption, pollution could have turned it red, as happened in a recent environmental disaster in America.
The same pollution could have driven millions of frogs on to the land, the second plague. On land the frogs would die, removing the only obstacle to an explosion of flies and lice - the third and fourth plagues.
The flies could have transmitted fatal diseases to cattle (the fifth plague) and boils and blisters to humans (the sixth plague).
The hour-long documentary argues that even the story of the parting of the Red Sea, which allowed Moses to lead the Hebrews to safety while the pursuing Egyptian army was drowned, may have its origins in the eruption.
It repeats the theory that "Red Sea" is a mistranslation of the Sea of Reeds, a much shallower swamp.
Computer simulations show that the Santorini eruption could have triggered a 600ft-high tidal wave, travelling at about 400 miles an hour, which would have been 6ft high and a hundred miles long when it reached the Egyptian delta.
Such an event would have been remembered for generations, and may have provided the inspiration for the story.
Jean-Claude Bragard, the director, said: "Sifting through the latest historical research and utilising new archaeological tools, we have been able to find a surprising amount of circumstantial evidence for the Biblical tales."
The same pollution could have driven millions of frogs on to the land, the second plague. On land the frogs would die, removing the only obstacle to an explosion of flies and lice - the third and fourth plagues.
The flies could have transmitted fatal diseases to cattle (the fifth plague) and boils and blisters to humans (the sixth plague).
The hour-long documentary argues that even the story of the parting of the Red Sea, which allowed Moses to lead the Hebrews to safety while the pursuing Egyptian army was drowned, may have its origins in the eruption.
It repeats the theory that "Red Sea" is a mistranslation of the Sea of Reeds, a much shallower swamp.
Computer simulations show that the Santorini eruption could have triggered a 600ft-high tidal wave, travelling at about 400 miles an hour, which would have been 6ft high and a hundred miles long when it reached the Egyptian delta.
Such an event would have been remembered for generations, and may have provided the inspiration for the story.
Jean-Claude Bragard, the director, said: "Sifting through the latest historical research and utilising new archaeological tools, we have been able to find a surprising amount of circumstantial evidence for the Biblical tales."
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@Stephen
We "could have" had rabbit for lunch if the dog didn't stop for a crap.
If my aunt had balls she "could have" been my uncle.
If the volcanologist had found seawater in the pacific it "could" prove that the volcano never erupted.
The word "could" is a one size fits all for anything you claim without supporting evidence.
The moon "could" be a spy station for alien lizards.
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@disgusted
We "could have" had rabbit for lunch if the dog didn't stop for a crap.If my aunt had balls she "could have" been my uncle.If the volcanologist had found seawater in the pacific it "could" prove that the volcano never erupted.The word "could" is a one size fits all for anything you claim without supporting evidence.The moon "could" be a spy station for alien lizards.
What's your point, sea slug?
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@Stephen
What a pathetic POST.
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@disgusted
I asked what point you were trying to make with that mumbojombo above . I can see you don't have one now though.
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@Stephen
That one is even worse. Do try harder.
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@Stephen
Strangely nothing like that is mentioned in Exodus! A few extra frogs does get a mention but not a 400mph tsunami......Computer simulations show that the Santorini eruption could have triggered a 600ft-high tidal wave, travelling at about 400 miles an hour, which would have been 6ft high and a hundred miles long when it reached the Egyptian delta...
Did an exiled yhwhist scribe draw on a folk memory of the effects of an eruption a thousand years before? The effects descibed in the article are rather conectural,and if (as seems likely) the Hebrews weren't even there at the time that seems unlikely to me that it would part of the exiles collective knowledge.
I'm sure that Egypt was not unaffected by the santorini eruption, but I'm not convinced that the plagues decscibed in Exodus are based on those effects. But as I have annoyed you, Stephen, many times by saying, there is no way to know for sure. But I'm sticking with my 'totally made up' theory for now at least!
*tosses hands up in exasperation*