New Finds Worldwide Support Flood Myths

National Geographic News ^ | May 28, 2002 | Brian Handwerk

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[anniegetyourgun]

Worldwide flood, eh? Whodathot.

[Russell Scott]

Gee, I guess that Ark sitting on top of a 14,000 foot mountain in Turkey is a myth, that's why Islamic Turkey is so presistent about not letting anybody up there to have a look.

[Doc On The Bay]

There's PLENTY of evidence that such catastrophies have occurred during the existence of Modern Man; it BEHOOVES US to discover when & How these events occurred--& WHY they occurred!

I, personally, DON'T want to "start over again in the 'Stone Age!'"

We DO NOT undestand the "History of Man" over the past 10 Millenia very well!

Doc

[blam]

Thanks Ernest. This article does not mention that with all the ice melting from the end of the Ice Age, there should be 'flood' stories and legends in every culture that survived. Also, they left out one of my favorite floods, The Black Sea flood, "Noah's Flood."

[norton]

"Expedition leader Monty Halls described the excitement..."

As in "Come on Down!" excitement?

Face it: might be a bad pun, but it's a twofer...

[blam]

"We DO NOT understand the "History of Man" over the past 10 Millenia very well! "

Some of us do. It was a period filled with tremendous catastrophies. (even a number of celestial events)

[norton]

On the serious side:
All myths are based on something that really did take place.
A 'world flood' might only be a bigger than expected overrunning of river banks, it might be an earth quake that dumped some poorly sited buildings into the lake or ocean. Or, it might have been a worlwide event that at least overran existing tidelands and protective levees.

There is SOMETHING behind the fact of near universal flood myths...

Perhaps some enterprising grad student could take a look at the north/south orientation of those myths?

PS - The only thing I wonder about is the timeline; whatever happened in the reported case happened after the reported birth of Christ - kind of tough on biblical chronology?

[Blue Screen of Death]

it BEHOOVES US to discover when & How these events occurred--& WHY they occurred!

Bees don't have hooves, they have feet.

[Doc On The Bay]

Kindly enlighten "the Rest of us!"

The "PC History of Modern Man" describes NO major Catastrophic events--it merely cronicles the dubious abuses of "the Coloured ones" by "the White Oppressors!"

WHAT "Catastrophic Events??"

Doc

[blam]

"WHAT "Catastrophic Events??"

Just for starters.

The 'long-ring' tree ring data for the last 10,000 years (Yes, the tree ring chronology has finally been filled out for 10k years) indicates that there were five worldwide catastrophic events within the last 10k years, the dates are: 3195BC, 2354BC, 1628BC, 1159BC and 540AD and two smaller events at 207BC and 44BC. Some refer to these events as 'near-extinction events.' (These dates, except for 540AD, are supported by the ice core data) The dates are no longer in question but the causes are still being debated.
The 540AD date does not have an acid layer (volcano) in the ice cores and this leads some to speculate that it was a comet/asteroid that crashed into the Celtic sea and began the Dark Ages.

[Chemnitz]

Rehwinkel has a very good book on "The Flood," old but full of great insights. He had a theory about a coincidence. Every culture has a death day where people dress up as dead people, ghosts and skeletons. Well, death is universal. But this death day is almost the same all over the world. We call it Halloween. He wondered if that was the date of the Flood starting, remembered in cultic fashion.

The Bible teaches that a global flood killed all life on the land. I believe the Word and I also enjoy seeing all the evidence left behind for the doubters.

[Mike Darancette]

WHAT "Catastrophic Events??"

About 7600 years ago the Black Sea was a huge fresh water lake within a very short time it became a salt water sea connected with the Mediterranean.

Catistrophic Event

[blam]

"About 7600 years ago the Black Sea was a huge fresh water lake within a very short time it became a salt water sea connected with the Mediterranean."

I have the book Noah's Flood by Ryan and Pittman, good book. I'm beginning to think that something similar happened in the Gulf Of Mexico.

[blam]

Ancient Apocalypse

[blam]

Comets And The Bronze Age Collapse

[Centurion2000]

bump

[David]

"The 'long-ring' tree ring data for the last 10,000 years (Yes, the tree ring chronology has finally been filled out for 10k years) indicates that there were five worldwide catastrophic events within the last 10k years, the dates are: 3195BC, 2354BC, 1628BC, 1159BC and 540AD . . . . "

2354 BC is the Biblical date for the Flood.

At some point, I believe you posted an online site for ancient chronology--if you have it conveniently available, could you please put it up again. Thanks.

[blam]

"2354 BC is the Biblical date for the Flood."

That is the Usser date. James Usser (1580-1655), Archbishop Of Armagh, Church Of Ireland. He is famous for dating the earth at 4004 years old.

I'll look around and see if I can find the timeline you requested. My files are a mess and I may not find it.