I can rephrase the question to "Is the power of volcano from God"?

(March 27, 2012 at 2:40 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:

(March 27, 2012 at 1:12 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Well sane or not; thunderfoot's hypothesis seems to carry more validity than the written fantasy story

As Min pointed out, there are no active volcanoes in the Egypt/Sinai region. At first glance that would seem to cast doubt on the hypothesis.

However, there are a few volcanoes in the Mediterranean, and as it appears that the biblical accounts were likely born out of oral tradition, its possible that its borrowed folklore from elsewhere.

This is the crux of the matter...the bible IS an amalgamation of "oral traditions" of the Levant and Mediterranean ...if memory serves there is also a "Fire God" in the Sumerian/ Mesopotamian pantheon?

Essentially ....the bible is a lie as the "True Word of God" a fake if you will.

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(March 27, 2012 at 5:43 am)Christian Wrote: I can rephrase the question to "Is the power of volcano from God"?

No. The "power" of a volcano is well understood. I could be wrong the the Fiji Island are a result from plate tectonics and volcanic activity ...still are. The abrahamic god had nothing to do with it.

(March 27, 2012 at 5:43 am)Christian Wrote: I can rephrase the question to "Is the power of volcano from God"?

The answer would be no.

(March 27, 2012 at 5:43 am)Christian Wrote: I can rephrase the question to "Is the power of volcano from God"?

And you sound like a complete idiot, even amongst Christians, for doing so.

There are a cluster of volcanoes in Saudi Arabia which lends a little credence to the Kenite hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenite which indicates that southern tribes brought the whole Yah concept into Palestine.

Additionally there seem to be a couple of Egyptian inscriptions which refer to Yah ( or Yaw ) as a place name in Midian which would be analogous to Saudi Arabia. We see in Hawaii that when people live near active volcanoes that they are really impressed by them.

(March 27, 2012 at 5:43 am)Christian Wrote: I can rephrase the question to "Is the power of volcano from God"?

(March 27, 2012 at 5:43 am)Christian Wrote: I can rephrase the question to "Is the power of volcano from God"?

(March 27, 2012 at 12:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There are a cluster of volcanoes in Saudi Arabia which lends a little credence to the Kenite hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenite which indicates that southern tribes brought the whole Yah concept into Palestine.

Additionally there seem to be a couple of Egyptian inscriptions which refer to Yah ( or Yaw ) as a place name in Midian which would be analogous to Saudi Arabia. We see in Hawaii that when people live near active volcanoes that they are really impressed by them.

To be fair, there are volcanos in the Jordan Valley, on the Golan heights, and in western Syria. Those volcano might appear to be extinct due to lack of evidence of recent eruption, but the underlying tectonic mechanism for them is long lasting and certainly on-going. So these region are almost certainly not through with their volcanism on a geological time scale.

As to whether they could have erupted in historic times inspite of appearing dead now, I think the answer is it can't be ruled out. There was probably no mega giant eruptions with stratospheric pilinean columns, or huge pompian pyroclastic flows. But small scale ash eruption with a minimum of lava extrusion could leave very little evidence after a few hundred years. Such would likely remain undiscovered until some geologist randomly pick up a rock and date it.

There are recorded minor eruptions in Oregon and Washington in the 19th century, and even one in Northern california in early 20th, that left so little evidence that Geologists have yet to identify the exact spot.

The thing with a dormant or extinct volcano is that it just looks like another mountain. The Romans in Pompeii were surprised as all fuck when Vesuvius showed its stuff. It is not as if they didn't know that there were volcanoes; Etna on Sicily and Stromboli off the coast were active but Vesuvius was a major revelation.

Certainly true that the Jordan Valley is a tectonic hot spot but it seems to be earthquakes ( such as the one which leveled Jericho ) more than volcanic action which does most of the damage. I can't even find an estimate of the last time those volcanoes erupted.

(March 27, 2012 at 5:43 am)Christian Wrote: I can rephrase the question to "Is the power of volcano from God"?

Yes of course you may. Now show me your proof.