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Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning.

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In article <56481d31$0$1646$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>On 11/14/2015 9:32 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> In article <daq99gFerigU1@mid.individual.net>,
>> Robert Bannister  <robban@clubtelco.com> wrote:
>>> On 15/11/2015 4:29 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
>>>>
>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/earths-water-old_56460271e4b08cda348867ea
>>>>
>>>>   "An international team of scientists has found new evidence that
>>>> water may have been a fundamental part of Earth since its beginning
>>>> some 4.5 billion years ago."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "..water has been on Earth since its formation -- and new research
>>>> indicates they might be right."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> These science guys find themselves always going back to...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the
>>>> earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the
>>>> deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe they should be investigating where those words come from.
>>>>
>>> They were written by men with strange beliefs. Perhaps they'd been
>>> drinking too many spirits at night without water.
>>
>> Did they have any way of making spirits?  Since they didn't have
>> *any* access to freeze-distillation, they would have had to
>> invent standard distillation with heat and a condenser, like
>> Martin Padway in the sixth century.  Did they?
>>
>> G. K. Chesterton says somewhere that compared to the other
>> creation myths we find hanging about, with dragons to be slain
>> and giants to be dissected *before* the earth is created, Genesis
>> 1 sounds a lot more reasonable.
>>
>> To say nothing of the not-standard Hindu creation myth in which
>> the earth is created out of butter churned out of a huge sea of
>> milk, and the Finnish one in which a sky goddess, being lonely,
>> falls into the sea, where she drifts around still beling lonely
>> for centuries until she lays some eggs which become the
>> continents.
>>
>I'm trying to remember which mythos it was where the Earth was created 
>by a God having a bowel movement.  One of the ones from India IIRC.

That one, I managed to have missed.  I did once read one in which
one of the goddesses starts knitting, and when she's done rolls
it all up into a ball, throws it into the void, and creates the
world.

Abd L. Sprague de Camp once wrote a short poem about how the
Sumerians believed the gods created mankind while they were
drunk.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-14 12:29 -0800
  Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Saul Levy <saullevy1@cox.net> - 2015-11-14 13:50 -0700
  Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 15:37 -0600
  Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. "G=EMC^2TreBert" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 14:09 -0800
  Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2015-11-15 10:34 +0800
    Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-11-15 05:32 +0000
      Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-11-14 21:50 -0800
        Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-11-15 07:22 +0000
          Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 07:12 -0500
      Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 07:11 -0500
      Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2015-11-16 14:16 +0800
        Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 10:14 -0600
          Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-11-16 17:56 +0100
            Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 11:06 -0600
              Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-11-16 18:28 +0100
                Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 11:59 -0600
                Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-11-16 19:02 +0100
      Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. "G=EMC^2TreBert" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 16:11 -0800
        Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Saul Levy <saullevy1@cox.net> - 2015-11-18 08:38 -0700
        Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. "G=EMC^2TreBert" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-03 15:39 -0800
  Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-15 08:22 -0600
  Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. David Staup <dstaup@charter.net> - 2015-11-15 08:51 -0600
    Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 11:11 -0500
      Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-11-15 11:57 -0500
        Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 18:10 +0100
        Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 12:40 -0500

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