[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?

[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.

[Doe Eyes]

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

Aren't floods still the most deadly natural disaster?

[spetznaz]

I love reading a post by an intelligent Freeper who manages to look at a situation with clarity of mind and intelligence. However i am sad to say that although your points make absolute sense you will not be able to convince otherwise those who think that this 'discovery' is a sign of the divine.

Think of it, i was watching the History channel the other week, and they had a broadcast from the seventies on the same matter. Thus this 'recent discovery' is just a regurgitation of what some people believed is 'scientific,' but is not.