Mike wrote,
<< I find this quite interesting because a recent article published at
space.com, a highly credible web site, discusses in some detail the theory
that a meteor, which apparently created a very large crater recently
discovered in southern Iraq, caused a catastrophic flood in that part of the
world only a few thousand years ago. It also mentions the fact that recent
studies of tree rings strongly suggest that a major, short term, climate
altering event, such as a large meteor impact, appears to have occurred in
.... guess what year. Yup. "2350 BC"
By the way, the article dates the account of the deluge found in "The Epic of
Gilgamesh," which many Bible critics say was the basis of the Bible's flood
account, to "circa 2200 BC." That's one hundred and fifty years AFTER Bible
chronology, and the new tree ring studies, indicate Noah's flood occurred.
>>
The Flood of Gilgamesh, and probably of the Bible, is dated by Near Eastern
archaeologists at c. 2900 BC. See Dick Fischer's book or Carol Hill's article
"A Time and Place for Noah" Perspectives March, 2001. The primary paper is
Max Mallowan, "Noah's Flood Reconsidered," Iraq 26 (1964).
Paul
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