RE: Unexpected level of stupidity
August 18, 2016 at 12:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2016 at 12:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 17, 2016 at 7:42 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Someone else can help me here locating this.
I saw that about 40,0000 years ago, there was a land-locked sea, and that one of its containing wall broke, releasing what you could really call a Biblical deluge that would rank as one of the major geological events of human history, and that the flood waters were released into some of the most prolific early agricultural areas.
I think I'm mixing up my facts, but based on what I vaguely remember, it wouldn't be surprising that it would be remembered 10's of thousands of years later in greatly exaggerated and mythologized terms. So far the best I can find is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outburst_f...ars_ago.29
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_...hypothesis
So it seems to me the Biblical account could be an exaggeration of a literal (and potentially very awesome to see) event right around or just before the dawn of writing and history.
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But then I'm wrong about the dates, it would be roughly 8,000 years ago, not 40,000 as I remembered hearing.
-and ofc criticism of that theory is adequately described in the second link. They'd also be wrong about the people, and place, in context. There's a surprising dearth of black sea flood mythology. Whatever people may have witnessed in that regard, 40k years ago, 8k years ago....hasn't made it's way to us in the way that flood mythologies concerning other bodies of water have.
These little details, though, don't seem to have much of an effect of Deluge advocacy, lol.
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