XPost: alt.religion.jehovahs-witn, alt.bible, alt.atheism
XPost: alt.talk.creationism
From: calee@optonline.net
On 19 Mar 2005 19:09:52 GMT, AC wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:07:16 -0000,
>Uncle Wobbly wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Alas, there was no "Noachian" Black Sea Flood, and
>>
>> it is true that a lot of this archeology is tainted by people desperate to
>> esatblish a link... but I wonder what a child back then would have percieved
>> the tsunami of Boxing day to have been.
>
>The Black Sea flood claim was tossed out the door. There was no
>catastrophic, or even remotely threatening flood. If I had to say that the
>Sumerian flood myth (which the Akkadians, Hittites and Bronze Age
>Palestinians borrowed) was based on anything, then I'd have to go with some
>big flood in Mesopotomia. But again, I see no reason to draw such a
>conclusion at all, as I don't think that every mythical event has an actual
>source in a real one.
Mesopotamia (the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys) was one of the cradles
of Middle Eastern civilisation. The other was Egypt.
Both these places had spring floods when the ice and snow melted in
the mountains, and there was too much water for the rivers to carry to
the sea.
The floods deposited material from upstream, making the ground very
fertile and an ideal place for early man transitioning from hunting
societies to farming ones.
The sheer volume of matter deposited by the Tigris and Euphrates is
shown by the fact that it has driven the shoreline miles further out
to sea since those days. And the two rivers now join several miles
inland instead of reaching the sea separately.
The floods in this area were a lot more severe than the relatively
benign Nile flooding in Egypt.
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