Re: Controversy over the great flood hypotheses in the Black Sea in light of geological, paleontological, and archaeological evidence
- From: Matt Giwer <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:00:38 GMT
Eric Stevens wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/kscq9....
Abstract
Legends describing a Great Flood are found in the narratives of
several world religions, and the biblical account of Noah's Flood is
the surviving heir to several versions of the ancient Mesopotamian
Flood Myth. Recently, the story of the biblical deluge was connected
to the Black Sea, together with the suggestion that the story's
pre-Mesopotamian origins might be found in the Pontic basin [Ryan,
W.B.F., Pitman, III, W.C., 1998. Noah's Flood: The New Scientific
Discoveries About the Event That Changed History. Simon and Schuster,
New York]. Based on the significance of this flood epic in the
Judeo-Christian tradition, popular interest surged following
publication of the idea
The problem with this is quite straightforward. It does not match either Gilgamesh or the bible story.
If you look at the rate at which the basin filled people could have easily walked away from the rising waters in a couple hours each day. Further game is also going to be leaving the area so hunters have no problem finding food. So there is no basis for any significant loss of life much less "global" flooding" to start the story. In fact it would be remembered as an inconvenient time but one of great bounty in food.
Given those facts _any_ flood will do. Once any flood will do there is no cause for making the great leap of faith that a particular flooding event was the cause.
Then we can look at real floods and see they are regularly very quick and catastrophic killing people even these days with all kinds of weather warnings and communications available. Therefore an unusual but common flood is a better basis for the legends.
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