The Deluge and the Ark Seekers
Historical Blindness
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The Origin of the Flood Myths
In 19 97, two marine geologists proposed that around eight thousand years ago, the black sea was suddenly and cataclysmically inundated by sea water. According to them, this sudden infill hypothesis would mean the displacement of a great many neolithic farmers. This oral tradition about the catastrophe may have been the origin of near eastern flood myths. By their estimation, an earthquake caused the natural dam to break, resulting in a violent jet of water they figure was 20 times more powerful than niagara falls. To day, all evidence suggests that the black sea gradually filled with salt water over thousands of years prior to the date that ryan and pitman pin pointed it as happening.
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