Greetings Joe,

I took your comments as constructive. I'ld like to answer you briefly.

You wrote:
"--what made the world speed up in such a short (relatively) time?"

Well, think of it like a Harlem Globetrotter spinning a Basketball (symbolizing
the earth) on the tip of his finger of his right hand, while his left hand (the
meteor) hits the side of the ball at a slight angle, in the same direction as
the ball is spinning, as a result, the ball spins faster. In going from a 30
hour day to a 24 hour day, the earth would have had to speed up by about 20%.
Meadowlark Lemon could do that no prob. :-) My calculations show, that 1 huge
comet/meteor about about the size of the moon could have done it, however, I
believe the planisphere and the Epic of Gilgamish both indicate there were 7
comets/meteors - each of these about 1/7th the size of the moon.

You wrote:
> -and I think they would notice the difference between day and night--....
Early agricultural man --before towns and writing was living off the sun and
stars. Failure to Plant at the right time could mean a starving year to come.
So i think they paid attention. "

I think 'they' would have as well ...if..... they were alive.

Consider a few sources of catastrophic events in the 3rd millenium bc:
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"Third Millennium BC Abrupt Climate Change and Old World Order Collapse",
Dalfes, H.N. et al (editors), 1997.

NEW EVIDENCE FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE DISASTER IN 3rd MILLENNIUM BC
SCIENCE, Volume 279, Number 5349, 16 January 1998, pp.325-326
(See an article at: http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword04i.htm)
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From the sources above, even if you don't accept the Bible as evidence,
Archeological analysis of Akkadian Tells in Mesopotamia indicate that these
cities were vacated (due to a climate change which elliminated rainfall) in the
3rd Millenium bc.

If the Bible is true, regardless of whether we believe it or not, then the flood
would have killed everyone (except for Noah and his family), which means that no
on,e except Noah, would have been around to notice the change.

You wrote:
>Methusalah is held out as the oldest living human of the past--does any one
think he ever got beyond 94?

me.

Thanks for the discussion.
Toby

--- In LexiLine@yahoogroups.com, jmh150 <jmh150@...> wrote:
>
> Toby
> Allowing for the impact of a comet to slow down the revolution of the earth to
a 30 hour day--had to be cataclismic--a sudden one time event.  The earliest
recorded history--however challenged by math--If it slowed the earth enough for
the early recorders to notice--and I think they would notice the difference
between day and night--what made the world speed up in such a short (relatively)
time? 
> Early agricultural man --before towns and writing was living off the sun and
stars.  Failure to Plant at the right time could mean a starving year to come. 
So i think they paid attention.  Advance a tad to cities and early
writing---they may have used a 30 hour day and 300 days--for announcing holidays
and religious purposes--But I guarantee the average working guy didn't get up on
Monday morning at 6:00 AM and work until noon on Tuesday.   While I am thinking
about it--how did they guage a thirty hour day?  If it was by the sun--it goes
back to my question--what made the earth suddenly (relatively) speed up?   And
if it did--how were they marking time?
> Understand that the Bible -especially Genesis--is the writing of one
people--and perhaps only a small percentage of those people--to establish a
creation story--.  Methusalah is held out as the oldest living human of the
past--does any one think he ever got beyond 94? 
> Note this is not an attack on belief systems--just an appeal to credulity.
> Regards
> Joe