Word: methuselahs
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...good. But what about the "forty days and forty nights" that the fountains of the deep were opened? What does that signify? The astronomers have shown that Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine months, nor years as the Bible has it. At that rate, the celebrated rain-storm of Noah's time lasted about three days and the Ark might well have been built right here in Boston. But movements in the earth's crust are of such a gradual nature that even Dr. Getsinger's twelve thousand years from submersion to emergence is pretty fast work. Nature never...