So many culture and religions have a great flood myth, and I've just read something interesting that might explain why.

Apparanty it all revolves around the last ice Agewhere the Black sea suposidly dried up for tens of thousands of years, when water levels fell, and the bosporus strait dried up.

But when the Ice age ended, water levels rose again, and water built up in the bosphorus. By then people hadd setted in the area that was once the black sea.

About 7000 years ago, the water burst out from the Bosphorus, and the whole black sea are was flooded within a few months.

This was pretty disasterous for the people who lived there of course So they all had to move on, and they carried the flooding tale around with them.

Sound plausable?

Plausable, but it does not cary God's endorcement so it will not be good enough for alot of people.

That was dumb, Python.

You insinuate blind faith, and a complete lack of scientific evidence to support a flood.

I am sorry, but I have to say that was pretty...

Oh, nevermind.

There is no possible way the flood could have been scientifically feasible. If merely one foot of that amount of water evaporated, the Earth's atmosphere would have been completely saturated, rendering the planet uninhabitable. And there would have to have been a hell of a lot of water in order to completely flood the globe, effectively trumping the peak of Mt. Everest.

[This message has been edited by Charles Thunder (edited 03-06-2005).]

quote:Originally posted by Digital_Savior:

You insinuate blind faith, and a complete lack of scientific evidence to support a flood.

Sorry, I forget how sarcasm does not work on the internet. There is scienticic evidence for a huge flood in one region of the world, and until recently most people's world the twenty miles around thier home town. So the people living there would think the whole world was flooded. If that flood was really the inspiration for the story of Noah it would mean that the Bible is part fiction. I have no problem with this but I know alot of people would.

It was a menstrual symbol, indicative of God's desire to return to the womb, and kill his father.

Charles Thunder, is that statement really true? I would like to hear more about it as I am a little skeptical. It does sound plausible, so I would like to hear some more on the subject - possibly with some documented evidence.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html#flood

Correction, when i said the black seadrying up, i didn't mean it as in *poof* no more water. The area became an area that contained a few freshwater lakes and lots of fertile, silty soil. (that people setteled onto)

Still would've been pretty dramatic when it refilled

To understand the flood,

you need to understand a

little earth science.

The sky is a solid "firmament"

that the sun and stars and

clouds sit on.

There is alot of water on top

of that firmament, like there

is down here.

God caused the flood by opening

a door in the firmament, and

the water gushed out.

Then he closed the door to

stop the water.

Then the water dried up.

Makes sense to me.

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so.

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.

And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.