The great flood happened about 13,000 years ago....

by EndofMysteries 13 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  EndofMysteries

  I just learned this information the past couple of days but it seems it's been out the past couple of years.

  Many many articles about some asteroid/meteor event about 13,000 years ago.

  http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/space-rock-impact-could-have-caused-ancient-cooldown-new-evidence-says

  http://www.space.com/14793-comet-earth-impact-younger-dryas.html

  Just google that, many articles.

  Combine that with evidence of great floods happening all over the world around 13,000 years ago.

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sXjqFo9osUO4pWfxsx3Brb565KvqfVIaP1vtDGa95tg/edit?pli=1

  The above google document lists many sources for many different floods worldwide.

  Also if note is that it's been recently studied and accepted that most of the water on Earth did not originate in Earth's creation. Earth had some water, but much more water was added by asteroid or meteor shower.

  If the Noah story is somewhat accurate, that explains how the floodgates of heaven opened up. Imagine a meteor storm of rain.

  Whether you believe it as the bible says or not, there are flood stories across ancient civilizations all over the world. Whatever happened about 13,000 years ago, there were massive floodings happening all over the world.
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  nicolaou

  Lots of floods? Very likely. A GLOBAL flood? No. No evidence whatsoever (unless you count 'snowball Earth about 650 million years ago).

  Where's the DNA 'bottleneck' that would be evident if a global deluge was an actual, historical reality?
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  cofty

  Our water came from asteroids over 4 BILLION years ago. No connection at all with the one that caused a temporary climate change 13 THOUSAND years ago.
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  DuvanMuvan

  The first two sources you list are about one big meteor not a whole meteor storm. And sorry i didn't look at all of the others but I didnt see one where it said that one large meteor storm occurred and that's where all our water came from
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  baltar447

  I think it's possible that the flood stories came from floods at the end of the last ice age that hit coastal regions hard, but no way there was a global flood and a boat and 2 animals and all that sheat.
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  Island Man

  There was a great Tsunami in the Mediterranan region 8 thousand years ago. That could have been the event that sparked the flood myths.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fCsjlieEg0
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  ABibleStudent

  IMHO just because there are flood myths around the world does not neccessarily mean that the "Great Flood" happened round the world at the same time. Is it possible that floods and tsunamis have occurred throughout history and around the globe, so that different civilizations created "flood" stories? Is it possible that early civilizations created "flood stories" to explain finding sea fossils around the globe and at higher elevations that were caused by geologic activity? Is it possible that flood and tsunamis occurred and that early civilizations created stories of a "Great Flood" to explain uncovered sea fossil remains after flood waters receded?

  My point is that many civilizations having "flood myths" does not prove that the "Great Flood" occurred. It is unlikely that the "Great Flood" occurred around the world at the same time about 13,000 years ago because insufficient time would have lapsed between then and now to account for the diversity of modern humans. If it happened more than 1 million years ago, then I could not use the same justification to conclude that the "Great Flood" did not occur. According to Timeline of human evolution, (Archaic) Homo sapiens have been around for about 500,000 years.

  Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

  Robert
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  fiddler

  If you look at google earth night view you'll see that people (lights) are all around the edges of continents. Humans seem to migrate to the edges...I think that fact hasn't changed over the history of humankind. What stands out to me with this knowledge is this:

  The coastal regions would have been impacted the most during the rapid meltdown of the last ice age. What happened at that time...my bet is extraterestrial impact...was catastrophic. Many people (those that survived because they were away hunting or whatever) from diverse places would have fantastic flood and inundation stories. It does not 'prove' the Bible flood story as the be all end all story. It is just one of many.
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  kaik

  The Ice Age ended around 12000 years ago. The glacier maximums did varied by the continent, but sea levels stopped rising around 8000BC. There is a huge time gap between this event and when the first written records happened. This gap makes almost impossible for any generations to transmit stories orally about any global event after several thousand years. The major explosion of volcano Thera in Greece happened around 1600BC, and was probably the biggest volcanic event in the past 50000 years. It was remembered only for next 600 years and there were only sporadic references to it by archaic Greeks, Chinese, and Egyptians. This evant was pretty much forgotten during the rise of the Neo-Assyrian empire (780 BC), but the explosion was so powerful that it could be teoretically observed from our Moon.

  There are many huge issues with much of water comming suddenly from the space without leaving any traces in our recent geological times. We can calculate Earth mass that had been rather stable in the past 600 mil years. 650 million years ago was the last time when the planet earth was almost entirely covered with water, which is also known as Snow Ball effect. The glaciars reached to both circle of tropics leaving small open seas around the equator. The continental surface had expanded due volcanic activity at the end of precambrain period. This ended the snow ball effect of our planet. The earth radius is also constant for past 600 million years in which increased only by 1%. Earth radius changes about 1/10mm per year. This is recorded in mineral deposits all over the world. For any massive catastrophe like sudden water rise globally would shown or cause:

  1. Glaciers, where some of them are old as much as 10 million years, and yield interesting information about past climate, but do not record global flood.
  2. Sediments would indicate sudden increases of various deposits all over the world as the water would recede.
  3. Ozon layer would be decimated, and probably most of the living organism would die out due IV exposion.
  4. Changes in the salinity of oceans. We know several cycles of changes in ocean salinity. One is directly tied to Messinian salinity crisis 5.5 million years ago when Mediterranean Sea almost dried out due closer of the Gibraltar. Sudden water levels on global scale would have affected salinity with it also changes in marine life.
  5. Much of the flora would die out, becaue it would not survive under water. Forests migration pattern is easy to document from pollen traces (yes pollen can survive thousands of years). The sudden decimation of forests around the globe would affect the level of oxygen. While ocean produce most of oxygen, 25-35% is generated by forests. Atmosphere would be difficult to breath after flood without decreased oxygen.
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  Jeffro

  EndOfMysteries:

  The great flood happened about 13,000 years ago....

  No. It didn't. There is no reason at all to attempt to correlate any potentially remotely (very remotely) similar event to the bronze age 'Noah' myth.