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Noah's Ark
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Are there any ABers who believe in the literal truth of the ark story?
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There was a theory that the Black sea used to be a fresh water lake separated from the Aegean sea by a land barrier in the Bosphorus.
https:/ /en.wik ipedia. org/wik i/Black _Sea_de luge_hy pothesi s
The water level in the Black Sea was 80m or so below the sea level. Around 9000 years ago, the Bosphorus barrier was breached, and salt waters from the Aegean flowed into the Black Sea, leading to a huge inundation and rise in sea levels of many tens of metres in the Black Sea area.
There is good evidence for some kind of inundation (rapid rise of water levels; water scouring; destruction of dwellings etc)
The historical fact (if that is what it is) gave rise to a myth of a god-inspired flood.
However, recent (2009) evidence from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) (one of the top oceanagraphic research institutes in the world) suggests that the difference in sea levels was 'only' around 40m, so the inundation was less severe than previously thought.
https:/ /www.wh oi.edu/ oceanus /featur e/noahs -not-so -big-fl ood/
As for Noah bulding an artk to rescue unicorns, dragons and elephants... no. Just ... No.
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The water level in the Black Sea was 80m or so below the sea level. Around 9000 years ago, the Bosphorus barrier was breached, and salt waters from the Aegean flowed into the Black Sea, leading to a huge inundation and rise in sea levels of many tens of metres in the Black Sea area.
There is good evidence for some kind of inundation (rapid rise of water levels; water scouring; destruction of dwellings etc)
The historical fact (if that is what it is) gave rise to a myth of a god-inspired flood.
However, recent (2009) evidence from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) (one of the top oceanagraphic research institutes in the world) suggests that the difference in sea levels was 'only' around 40m, so the inundation was less severe than previously thought.
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As for Noah bulding an artk to rescue unicorns, dragons and elephants... no. Just ... No.
Incidentally, to Webbo @18.14, the Sumerians also have a flood myth, recorded in the epic of Gilgamesh
https:/ /www.hi storywi z.com/f lood.ht m
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I've read that the story of the Ark and the Flood are based on the time when the narrow land-bridge which includes Gibraltar collapsed and flooded the low-lying lands which are now covered by the Mediterranean Sea.. It must have been cataclysmic and been passed down through the generations. I am, therefore, quite happy to accept the Biblical interpretation (I know that it is skewed to reflect a p.o.v.) and remains of a boat have been found on Mt. Ararat - as I think an earlier poster mentioned.
The earth, from all four corners, is 'awash' with flood myths.
https:/ /en.wik ipedia. org/wik i/List_ of_floo d_myths
...but that aside, what a waste of time the flood was. Intended (allegedly) as God's solution to the error he made - and lo and behold, human beings still turned out to be pretty rotten.
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...but that aside, what a waste of time the flood was. Intended (allegedly) as God's solution to the error he made - and lo and behold, human beings still turned out to be pretty rotten.