Talk:Peleg

message: The thing that surprised me the most is that when i first read Genisis 10:24-25 i thought it ment that the people of the earth seperated when the contnets divided.
So if you are wondering why i belive this is bcause almost evry soiety in the world has a flood legeond.asdasdg
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6-14-2009 When I read "because in his days the earth was divided" I also thought of continental drift. What better time for that to happen then just after the tower of Babel when the people were to be dispersed? In my mind that theory is strengthened when I read that Peleg means canal, brook, river and is the root letter for sailing in Hebrew. 97.121.228.38 (talk) 00:09, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
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message: This user claimed to have deleted my work because I supposedly deleted references without explanation. However, I would like to call to attention every one of those refs I Moved (not deleted):
*Line 16: " and "
**Line 24: " and "
*Line 18: "Nimrod's Tower of Babel"
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*Line 20: "Noah"
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*Line 21: "Book of Jubilees. Flavius Josephus"
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*Lines 22-23: "Antiquities of the Jews, Book I, Chapter VI, Paragraph 4."
**Lines 30-31: "Antiquities of the Jews, Book I, Chapter VI, Paragraph 4"
In short, I did not delete any refs. This user, however, deleted all my refs WITHOUT EXPLANATION. If he has a problem with my refs, he can bloody well come to the discussions page like anyone else is required. LutherVinci (talk) 15:30, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undid revision by [[Special:Contributions/Beyond My Ken|Beyond My Ken]] 

message: You obviously have not read my sources. What I meant to say is that the theory is this: Pangaea split around the time Peleg was born, 101 years after the Flood. The only geologists that agree that such an event could have happened, however, also agree that this split happened during the Flood, not after. Also, the original way I worded it, I think, gives the reader equal opportunity to believe one theory, or the other. In general, I think you should try to verify the sources before you make any hasty judgments. Do I make myself clear? LutherVinci (talk) 23:34, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Clear, you say..?  Hmmm...... I bet WP:FTN would make it clear...! Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 00:30, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: At any rate, the way you reworded the paragraph swings from a fringe theory (which I was not at all endorsing, but rather condemning in the original wording) to being just plain wrong. Neither Peterson nor Snelling ever said that Peleg lived during the time of the flood. Peterson claimed the theory that the continents broke up rapidly during the time of Peleg, 101 years after the flood. Snelling, a geologist, agreed that the continents split rapidly, but insisted that it had nothing to do Peleg, it happened entirely during the Flood. Do you finally understand both our mistakes? I would appreciate you not to overreact. LutherVinci (talk) 00:43, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misworded section, "And the Earth was divided" 

message: The creation scientist, Dr. Walt Brown, has an intriguing suggestion, that the name Peleg, which is also the root of archipelago and pelagic sediment, denotes DIVISION BY WATER.
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ216.html
His hydroplate theory proposes that the separation of the earth's continents did indeed happen simultaneously with the bursting forth of the fountains of the deep in Genesis 7, the original source of the "windows of Heaven" opening up. (40 days and nights)
According to his theory, after the continents drifted apart on the subterranean layer of water bursting forth, their slow settling (after the flood waters drained into the deep ocean basins, laid open by the "bursting" spoken of in Genesis 7:11), made the oceans rise in compensation of that continental settling into the mantle.
Land bridges connecting the continental divides of the Americas and Asia are commonly discussed.  Lower the oceans about 300 feet and you connect Alaska with Siberia and Australia with Indonesia with Southeast Asia.
Peleg was FOUR generations removed from Shem [Shem, Arphaxed, Sala, Eber, Peleg].  Nimrod (of Babel fame) was only TWO generations removed from Ham [Ham, Cush, Nimrod].  
Therefore, although Peleg may have been born early enough to see the Tower of Babel, and witness the divine birth of Earth's modern basic language groups, it also likely that he lived far beyond that, to see mankind dispersed from Babel as far as the Americas and Australia, only to have the rising of the oceans cut them off from each other for good.
"The earth was divided (by water) in Peleg's day." I Chron. 1:19 [Make's one go "Hmmmm."]  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JonWillcox (talk • contribs) 23:10, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peleg, water, division, and continental separation 

message: In addition to some more recent creationists holding the view that this division concerns the physical division of the continents, Adam Clark also thought this was likely when he published his commentaries early in the 19th century.  He does not claim the view to be original with himself, but of the theories of which he was aware, he leaned toward this one.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.168.253.131 (talk) 17:45, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adam Clark's Commentary on Genesis 10:15, Peleg. 

message: A lot of legendary or mythical characters have some basis in truth. 
If Peleg and others were real, where does this guy fit in history/prehistory? People started farming a lot during the 20-15000 year time period, Jericho was built 12000 years ago, Egypt (Mirzam) several thousand, and The Bronze Age about 6-5000.
The article says the traditional idea is Peleg was around when the major civilizations were starting to grow, around the time of Babel.137.118.102.246 (talk) 18:55, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was this person real?