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New Ocean being Formed in Africa
PenguinRadio writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting on a 37-mile long fissure that split open in September in the Afar desert in Ethiopia that could be the start of a new ocean forming. The fissure, which grew 8 meters wide in 3 weeks following an earthquake on Sept 14, is now splitting at about 0.8 inches per year, would eventually lead to Ethiopia eastern portions becoming an island in a million years or so. The findings were presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting taking place in San Francisco this week. The BBC reports that formation of a ocean basin is the first step toward developing an ocean, but that it will be millions of years before that could occur."
Shall I tell my kids to bookmark this article then? Just in case they forget when it all started? - useless. Imagine one million years from now.
/. bookmark from a MILLION years ago! It says that an ocean started in Africa from a fissure or something like that. /. article and the fissure you are talking about were all created in an instant back then, it is the god's way of testing your believing in him.
Student: I just found this
Teacher: Nonsense, the Earth is only 6000 years old. This so called
All Students: Oooooooo! Aaaaaaa!
Teacher: Yes, we are in Kansas.
You can't handle the truth.
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Well acording to translations and interpretations of the bible. The wording originaly used is of an old spoken language that isn't realy in use today. To make things worse numbers and letters are basicaly the same were letter has a numerical value and the writer/reader has to interpret the meanings and values based on the words they know to be true.
This is more evident in the internet rumor that "the www you placed in the web browser before the sites name actualy means 666" While there is actualy no atual W (some translator include it) in the hebrew alphabet, It was explain to me that w and v are commonly interchanged when going form one alphabet to another and the v also stood for the number 6. Unlike modern/western numerical systems, hebrew uses/used something like roman numerals were 666 instead of meaining six hundred sixtysix, it actualy means the sum of 6+6+6 or 18.
The above example is just an illistration in how translations can go bad. We have heard the stories of people wanting to say "good morning" or "have a nice day" in different languages and end up saying somethign to the effect of "thanks for sleeping with pigs". Translating the bible from old hebrew to new/old hebrew could impose the same problems. This is probably compounded when there wasn't the concept of dictionary for some time into the 16th or 17th century or later. The words for god could also have ment the number 86 or reversed. It is interesting that enough of it is translated to the point people follow it as they do.
OTOH, theomatics makes a good argument in the way the translations are organized. I wonder if it is a conspiracy?