Black Sea flood
Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Thu, 07 Oct 1999 13:33:21 -0400
Glenn rejects the Black Sea flood as a candidate for Noah's flood because
the rate of rise of the water was too slow. (Also I suspect that such a
flood would not have been anthropolgically universal is a consideration,
but I want to discuss one issue at a time) I haven't read the book "Noah's
Flood" but I remember in quotations from it that, even though the rate of
rise wasn't great, that the velocity of the water was quite high -- perhaps
high enough to have carried away large numbers of people to deeper water
where they drowned. That sort of phenomenon could have given rise to flood
accounts -- possibly like the account in Genesis. I'm not taking sides in
this because I don't have any special knowledge or expertise. But it seems
to me this possibility is worth discussing.
Bill Hamilton
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