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Originally Posted by Chris
Flood myths are common. Ancient Baylon had one. The Chinese have more than one.
They may have borrowed one from another, or they may all have their basis in truth.
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Sadly there's no physical evidence of a global flood event so this seems unlikely. 'Scientists' who've claimed as such are given rather short shrift.
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Originally Posted by martyh
A documentary i saw a few years back explained the greek flood myth as the flooding of the mediteranean sea which seemed to have geological evidence to back it up
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Yeah I've seen a few bits on that and a swift Google is useful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_S...uge_hypothesis
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~billr/...al_MG_1997.pdf
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...-no-water.html
I have some light reading for later, which will be handled with extreme caution - that book is
very good but also
very old. Haven't read it since I was in my very early teens.
