The "Flood" caused by a comet impact ...

Mindchild

This article, which mentions the recent probable discovery of a comet impact crater in Iraq around the time for the Biblical Flood, might interest some on this board.

. http://space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/comet_bronzeage_011113-1.html

I personally believe the myth of a global flood is nothing more than ancient legends but then we now know that the Earth is routinely blasted by fairly large asteroids and comets that can release the energy of 10 million atomic bombs and dramatically effect life on Earth. If you have watched some of Hollywood’s recent disaster movies that feature impacts, you will know that if a large comet hit one of the oceans, it would create incredibly powerful and destructive waves of water (called Tsunamis) that would reach in some cases, hundreds of miles inland. Any primitive men around at the time that survived such an event, would surely think a "global flood" had happened and that it was because the God's were pissed. They would have no concept of asteroids and meteor's, and any such sights would be fire coming down from God. Looking at things this way, suggests a possible explanation for the various cultural myths of a global flood.

Skipper

All great deeds and all great thoughts have ridiculous beginnings--Albert Camus

edward gentry

I dont understand why people who dont believe in events like the Red Sea crossing and the Flood seek to find rational explanations for them.
(Not directed at the original author of the thread)
Read Ian Plimers book "Telling lies for God" .Totally debunks the POSSIBILITY of a flood based on Geology.

Celtic

very true. learn't this about two years ago.

peace

celtic

chappy

Edward,

I agree that the idea of a world wide flood has been de-bunked by many reputable sources. What mindchild is referring to would have resulted in a significant local flood, which I happen to believe did happen and was the source of the various flood stories. The recent discoveries around the Black sea are pretty convincing also. There seems to have been a massive break in the thin land mass separating the Black sea basin and the mediterranan sea around 7000 years ago. Robert Ballard, (the guy who located the Titanic) recently found evidence of human habitation over 4000 feet on the sea floor.

later,
chappy

bitter mango

finally, a logical explaination to the floods in my basement :)

rhett

I make my living with meteorites and impact events and whatnot so hopefully I can shed a little light on this one.
First of all, it wasn't very likely it was a comet. It was most likely a small asteroid. Comets are basically dirty snowballs whereas asteroids are rocky bodies. Simple enough mistake.
Second, Noah's flood was most likely caused by the end of the last ice age. Glaciers melt, water breaks through, people drown, yadda yadda. Its pretty safe to say that there is no possible way that there really was a global flood. True, many other religions and peoples speak of great floods but most often its found in cultures that live near large bodies of water. Deeply landlocked peoples hardly ever have any such stories. Coincidence? Not likely.
The impact that is mentioned in this story most likely did cause other such legends to appear. It wouldn't be the first time that a large impact would be the source of legends to an uncivlised culture. The are people in Russia that still won't go near a certain region in Siberia because of a devastating impact that occurred around a hunred years ago. There has also been at least one instance in modern times that a meteorite has been found buried in an indian burial ground buried in the same way that a small child would be found. There is also a meteorite that fell in Germany that fell in 1492 that was chained to the town church for centuries because the people that it was a sign of god's wrath. There are tons of stories out there like this that have been caused my meteorite impacts much less catastrophic than the one in Iraq.

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To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven.

Rex B13

You guys like to toss around words like "debunk" all the time.Anytime someone writes a book it is the "final word". What you don't realize is that the same 'geology' for "no flood" is also applied to "the flood". You think science has it all figured out? Just look at it every ten years and see that it changes even faster than the Watchtower publications. LOL
Rex

Klaus Vollmer

I could recommend to read the book "Uriels Machine", which describes exact the situation how it could happen. Beside this you read a lot about the pseudepigraphic book of Henoch.
Be aware that the people in the megalthic aera could calculate the length of earths equator exact to +/- 20 meters.
its a real exciting book

TheOldHippie

I could not agree more, Rex B13. In 1950, they thought they had reached the very final step or point or whatever, now they had it all figured out as to the Universe, the Earth etc. In 1960, they laughed heartily at the old fossilized ideas of 1950 because NOW they had it all figured out. Etc., etc. Today, each and every new book or article "debunks" some idea or notion, because NOW we know how it REALLY was. In 10 years' time, we will sigh or laugh or smile or whatever at what we believed back in good old 2001. Wasn't it Lord Kelvin or someone who around 1900 said that physics was by then a fullfilled science, emptied, everything that could possibly be discovered within the realms of physics had by then been discovered. I guess history has shown that it was around then that physics got started. "Now" evolution has "finally disproven" creation I feel I am being told every year, "now", "now". How come it is always "now", what about these previous "final proofs", were they not so final after all?
Like someone once said, that atheists are the most boring people there are, because they only want to talk about religion all the time.

logical

see mango told you it was my fault

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