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, 05:07, January 3, 2009land bridges etc
: Happy New Year to you too! Yes, a lot of land bridges existed where they no longer do, but I was under the impression that the depth of Bass Strait would have precluded there being a land bridge there at the time. But that again raises the question of ''when'': In the creationary view the sea levels were much lower during the ice age, which lasted several hundred years after the flood, but Aborigines may not have come to Australia until ''after'' the sea levels rose. I don't know what the sea levels were supposed to be when the Aborigines arrived in the evolutionary scenario. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:05, 2 January 2009 (EST)
: Happy New Year to you too! Yes, a lot of land bridges existed where they no longer do, but I was under the impression that the depth of Bass Strait would have precluded there being a land bridge there at the time. But that again raises the question of ''when'': In the creationary view the sea levels were much lower during the ice age, which lasted several hundred years after the flood, but Aborigines may not have come to Australia until ''after'' the sea levels rose. I don't know what the sea levels were supposed to be when the Aborigines arrived in the evolutionary scenario. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:05, 2 January 2009 (EST)
::I am looking at a map of Australia as it would have been at the height of the last Ice Age. (I won't go into the times...When I "joined" CP, I decided not to get into ''that'' discussion.) Mainland Australia was joined to PNG (with a lake where the Gulf of Carpentaria is) and to Tassie (with another lake between the present King and Flinders Islands.) In fact I have two maps...neither are in scholarly works but are published under scholarly supervision. Somewhere in the recesses of my brain there is a 100 to 120 metre drop in sea levels during the last Ice Age. (I know that doesn't apply in your creational model.) I have yet another map that has a depth reading of 56 metres in the middle of Bass Strait. (Where the lake would have been).[[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 00:07, 3 January 2009 (EST)