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MacArthur Genius to write book on geology, historic floods, and theology. . .
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The Hindu historical timeline is built around the notion of recurring civilization collapse and rebirth. My guess is we are fairly close to the end times.
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End times is not a big deal in Hinduism it is just sort of like a dissolving of old mores and the birth of new cultures.
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it's interesting to note that in hinduism, the 'dark age' (kaligyuga) began 3102 BC. this is not too far away from the date the flood or the "beginning of the world" if you take the bible literally.
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If you take the flood metaphorically (as Hindus do quite often) as being memetic rather than tangible, the dissolution of the old and the construction of the new rather than a literal literal flood, then it really becomes non-controversial in the extreme. 3000 BC is a reasonable date for the start of agricultural history in major riverine civilizations and probably was a time of great cultural ferment, e.g. the incursion of the Indo-Europeans into Europe & South Asia etc. I have a feeling the notion of the flood has become literal when it was not so initially intended, perhaps invented by a non-literalist culture and then borrowed. Ditto for the Eden metaphor which has something IMO to do with enlightenment, the evolution of intelligence, the triune brain etc.
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It's also interesting that a worldwide flood around this time didn't seem to have interrupted the continuity of the flourishing civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. I wonder why that is.
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The classical writers mentioned the Bronze and Iron Ages, preceded by the Gold and Silver. It's all been downhill...
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Hindus don't take the flood myth literally.
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Sounds like it is dangerously close to environmental determinism, which is one of the issues I had with Murdock's astrotheology bent.
But geomorphology itself is a fascinating field. |
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