[meteorite-list] Seven Plagues and Killer Meteorites

From: GREG LINDH <geeg48_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:51:25 -0700
Message-ID: <BAY118-DAV4EC5FD3611D9CD917F687C91C0_at_phx.gbl>

Well said, Chris. It's amazing how the Meteorite List is *only for
discussing meteorites*.....except when the urge to bash other people's
religious beliefs becomes too overwhelming. Then it is *perfectly
acceptable* to depart from the topic of meteorites. Absolutely amazing.

Greg Lindh



----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Merry" <lmerry95 at insightbb.com>
To: "Mark" <mafer at imagineopals.com>; "meteorite-list"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Seven Plagues and Killer Meteorites


> 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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