Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: June 20, 2025, 1:27 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
#55
RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
(August 29, 2017 at 4:45 pm)Crossless2.0 Wrote:
(August 29, 2017 at 2:48 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: My personal opinion is that the biblical narrative was a local cataclysmic water event in Southeast Asia at the end of the Ice Age, retained in ancestral memory and expressed in flood myths across cultures.

Southeast Asia?

Yes, the biblical land of Cambodia. They do flood there quite often, I was told.

Seriously, the sea level rose 100 meters at the end of the last ice age, and there is evidence part of the rise was abrupt and inundated much of the Asian continental shelf around Indonesia quickly.    The area rapidly submerged parts might have been about the size of Europe.  The problem is abrupt is relative and flooding the sundaland likely took many centuries.

But a more plausible theory for factual origin of the genesis flood myth suggest it was the filling the Black Sea basin near the Fertile Crescent, not the flooding of distant continental shelves, that spawned the cultural memory of great and widespread flood. The basis is the Black Sea became cut off from the Mediterranean Sea when the world's ocean dropped during the ice age. With Mediterranean no longer supplying water the level of Black Sea fell much lower than the global sea level due to evaporation. This freed up large tracks of former sea floor to neolithic settlement. Near the end of last ice age the Mediterranean rose with global sea level and eventually it overtopped the isthmus that separated Mediterranean and Black Sea, this resulted in rapid erosion of the former barrier and very rapid increase in the infill rate at the much lower Black Sea. Within a few month the Black Sea would have been filled to the current level. The Black Sea flood story has the benefit of occurring both closer to then middle east, and can plausibly occur far more rapidly than even the most abrupt sea level change.  It is plausible for the filling of Black Sea basin to occur on the timescale of months.
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ?? - by Anomalocaris - August 29, 2017 at 4:49 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  The Noahide Flood LinuxGal 67 9357 December 7, 2023 at 7:01 pm
Last Post: Huolpoch
  C'mon, Look At All This Stuff That's Real YahwehIsTheWay 66 17878 December 28, 2018 at 9:38 pm
Last Post: Jehanne
  Just Look at all Those Fulfilled Prophecies! YahwehIsTheWay 37 8222 December 6, 2018 at 2:14 pm
Last Post: Gawdzilla Sama
  Look! Nothing! YahwehIsTheWay 1 693 November 30, 2018 at 8:21 pm
Last Post: ignoramus
  A look into the mindset of an Evangelical Trumptard drfuzzy 10 2314 October 12, 2018 at 2:49 pm
Last Post: Bucky Ball
  Rebuke on Biblical Prophecy Narishma 12 2203 May 28, 2018 at 11:46 am
Last Post: Minimalist
  Knowing god outside a biblical sense Silver 60 14075 March 31, 2018 at 1:44 am
Last Post: Godscreated
  Record few Americans believe in Biblical inerrancy. Jehanne 184 32606 December 31, 2017 at 12:37 am
Last Post: vulcanlogician
Question Why do you people say there is no evidence,when you can't be bothered to look for it? Jaguar 74 25279 November 5, 2017 at 7:17 pm
Last Post: Pat Mustard
  Hi, I would like to tell you about Jesus Christ, the only way to God JacquelineDeane55 78 25695 June 10, 2017 at 9:46 am
Last Post: Fireball



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)