Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . 346 The Deluge in North America. While these conclusions are of great importance inillustrating the general fact of the increased activity ofcertain natural forces during the Glacial epoch, theyassume special importance, in the present discussion,from the fact that at Lansing, Kansas, near Leaven-. Stratified Loess at St. Joseph, Mo., 200 ft. Above the River.(Photograph by Miss Luella A. Owen.) worth, a human skeleton was found buried at the baseof an undisturbed section of this loess, showing thatman was in the valley of the Missouri River b
Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . 346 The Deluge in North America. While these conclusions are of great importance inillustrating the general fact of the increased activity ofcertain natural forces during the Glacial epoch, theyassume special importance, in the present discussion,from the fact that at Lansing, Kansas, near Leaven-. Stratified Loess at St. Joseph, Mo., 200 ft. Above the River.(Photograph by Miss Luella A. Owen.) worth, a human skeleton was found buried at the baseof an undisturbed section of this loess, showing thatman was in the valley of the Missouri River beforethese floods attained their climax, and was, very likely, The Deluge in North America. 347 exterminated by them. Thus is added another instanceto the many which can be adduced to show the destruc-tive power of the floods which accompanied the close ofthe Glacial epoch during the period of mans existenceboth in the Old World and in the In view of these facts, it will appear that it is notan altogether improbable theory that, at the time ofthe Deluge, man had been largely exterminated bynatural forces; so that he was then limited to acomparatively small area in Central Asia. In suchextermination, he would only have shared the fate of alarge number of animals that failed to survive theworld-wide physical changes which accompanied the
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