• ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 hour ago

    Okay, the first problem is that the Bible does not say that Nile has 7 tributaries.

    It says that (a different river, likely Euphrates), will get smashed into 7.

    The second problem is everything else.

  • fonix232@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    41
    ·
    9 hours ago

    Yeah.

    And Moses split the Gulf of California to deliver his people to the promised land… Baja California.

  • imadethis@fedinsfw.app
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    8 hours ago

    The fuck is a tributary? Because there are way more rivers than just those seven that drain to the mississippi. Wikipedia even says that tributaries include streams, and good lord I know even the tiniest of rivers will have many streams feeding it. Declaring a certain size of river/water body to be a tributary is just fucking around with numbers to prove your point.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      3 hours ago

      It is a question of major tributaries. Depending how one defines “major”, about any number is possible. You can probably claim the Mississippi has one major tributary: the Missouri. Or you can claim it has hundreds, of your “major” definition is “mapped running water”.

  • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    95
    ·
    12 hours ago

    And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in the stars and stripes, and laid Him in the bed of the truck, because there was no room for them in the holiday inn.

  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    7 hours ago

    How do they determine the beginning of a river? Should it be the furthest point of something? Why isn’t the Missouri River the “Mississippi” and the remaining portion of the Mississippi north of that junction the Missouri instead?

    • DeadDigger@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      5 hours ago

      In Europe you often have either 2 rivers forming a new one or the bigger one eats the smaller one

    • jambudz@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      6 hours ago

      Historical exploration mostly. It’s very often referred to as the Mississippi-Missouri River in a general context

  • xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    11 hours ago

    Kinda related: The mormons believe that the garden of Eden was where Independence, Missouri is now… and everything resettled in the Middle East after the flood.

  • FrChazzz@lemmus.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    9 hours ago

    There’s a guy who long maintained that the Garden of Eden is found near the Florida panhandle and there’s a park to commemorate this.

    • sartalon@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      8 hours ago

      The Mormons believe it was in present day Missouri.

      Edit - Already posted elsewhere in this thread.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    30
    ·
    13 hours ago

    Obviously the answer is Jesus was in North America, Joseph Smith was right, and Matthew Mark Luke and John were a bit confused.