Howdy Jones,
One may speculate on an account of the "dead sea" event recorded in Gen 19.
The description of the destruction of Sodom could be interpreted as an
atomic explosion.. however, the wife, while looking back, became a "pillar
of salt". hmmm. According to Abraham's eyewitness account from his view some
distance in the hill country, a smoke cloud covered the valley.. An earlier
account recorded of Abraham and Lot parting of the ways described the area
east as a fertile plain. This dead sea area today is anything but a fertile
plain. Below sealevel could indicate a sudden collapse indicating an
immense. earthquake.
For sure.. sum'tin very strange happened there. Something that left an
unexplainable land change that refuses to follow the rules of geology.. much
less chemistry.
One may also engage in pure conjecture while reading about "Solomon's lost
mines". Supposedly ,they were located in Opher.. whereever that was.
However, since the gold was real and enough to gold plate the temple, it
sure had to come from somewhere..... so why not from the dead sea.. hmmm.
Transmutation???. Not so unbelievable as reports outa Ole Calif during the
Sutter's mill gold rush where some suggested the gold nuggets formed from "
bacteria" in the mountain streams since no mother lode was ever found
upstream.
Never to be outdone by a really good story.. now the Russians are
investigating creating exotic metals using bio-nuclear transmutation theory
Shades of chicken little and the sky falling.. what will they comeup with
next... speaking of chickens.. anyone want to hazard a guess as to why a
chicken can lay an egg ( calcium shell ),.. even IF.. their food intake has
NO calcium content??
Richard
