[meteorite-list] Seven Plagues and Killer Meteorites

[Chris Merry]

Mark,

Well put...I was always under the impression (cough, cough) that this was a 
list about meteorites (whatever your beliefs), and that rare occasion when 
it is now, it can be quite good.  Too bad it's kind of become a playground 
for bullies and name calling.

Chris Merry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark" <mafer at imagineopals.com>
To: "meteoritelist" <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Seven Plagues and Killer Meteorites


> ya know, some people refuse to accept what is known as fact and try to 
> dismiss it off as something that might could happen.
>
> That isn't why we are here. We are here for meteorites, not mightbe's and 
> myths or annual events that did plague the Nile until recent history. If 
> you cannot accept that, then meteorites aren't real either and maybe you 
> should leave. I mean, really now, have you seen a rock strike the earth 
> that was from space with your own eyes?
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
>> To: "meteoritelist" <>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 2:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Seven Plagues and Killer Meteorites
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:27:36 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>>It seems to me the History Channel or TLC, maybe even Discovery Channel,
>>>one
>>>of them, cover all the plagues and they were/are natural yearly events 
>>>that
>>>the ancient peoples of Egypt lived with. Why turn them into fables and
>>>myths?
>>
>> But that's all a form of apologetics.  It is looking far and wide to try 
>> to
>> find
>> an explanation that COULD be true, and trying to give it as an 
>> explanation
>> for
>> an event.  Yes, sometimes there are locusts in Egypt.  Sometimes frogs in
>> Egypt.
>> Sometimes kids die in Egypt.  Rivers could possbily turn red in Egypt 
>> from
>> dinoflagellates or some such.  People could get boils.  But how 
>> meaningful
>> is
>> that?  Of course there can be natural reasons be given for described
>> conditions
>> and not just an entirely new malody be made up from pure imagination 
>> (nobody
>> claimed a plague of attacks of three headed talking cariboo, after all).
>> What
>> is in question is-- did that series of "plagues" happen in that order, 
>> close
>> together, after having a guy tell a pharoh that if he didn't release the
>> Israelites they would happen?  Did he then release the Israelites, who
>> parted
>> the Sea of Reeds, after which that pharoh and his army was wiped out? 
>> THAT
>> is
>> what "historical accuracy" is about, not wherther or not problems 
>> described
>> are
>> actual problems that can take place.
>>
>> Let's shift it forward a bit.  A few thousand years.  Say that the 
>> alarmists
>> are
>> right, major global warming happens, and all costal cities are wiped out.
>> All
>> the evidence future archeologists have for the existance of New York is a
>> copy
>> of the movie Spiderman.  Scholars debate on wherther Spiderman is a
>> historical
>> figure or just a mythical hero.  Then, one year, some divers find the 
>> ruins
>> of
>> Manhattan.  New York was real!  Does that, then, prove that Spiderman was 
>> a
>> historical figure?  After all, it turns out that there really was a New
>> York,
>> and Spiderman was supposed to live in New York...
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