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Originally Posted by Dion
Archaeologist who found the Titanic claims Biblical flood DID happen 12,000 years ago
- Acclaimed oceanographer Robert Ballard says he has found evidence
- Claims massive flood happened in Black Sea region around 5600BC
- Waters cascaded down Turkey's Straits of Bospurus and into sea
- It is believed to have started story of Noah, which was then passed on
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...years-ago.html
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I don't buy it.
Good for Ballard for expertly identifying a geological event that happened 7500 years ago, but it is foolish to try to connect this to the biblical flood myth. My biggest problem with this idea is precisely because it occurred so long ago. 5600 B.C.E. predates virtually every form of ancient writing, and every known urban settlement. This was in the middle of the neolithic period when people were still predominantly hunters and gatherers. I just do not believe that there is the necessary social and cultural infrastructure to sustain a complex myth like the ANE flood stories for the following +2000 years at minimum before it was first put to writing. No, it's much more likely that the flood stories developed from much more closely contemporary events than this.