Puritanhead
Puritan Board Professor
The Black Sea = Noah\'s Flood?
Does the Black Sea = Noah's Flood? First, I am not postulating that, but it was the source of a National Geographic article when I was subscribing, and they have followed up on it.
The famous submarine explorer Robert Ballard who uncovered the Titantic found a submerged village under the Black Sea. Scientists postulate that the Black Sea like the Caspian Sea was significantly below sea level and much smaller in antiquity. Some cataclysm triggered a rupture of the ancient isthmus between Europe and Asia Minor, and opened up the Strait of the Bosporus, flooding the Black Sea basin until it presumably reached parity with the Mediterranean.
Some people have tried to assert that this was Noah's flood. What do you guys think of the idea of marginalizing Noah's flood from an earth-encompassing cataclysm to a regional cataclysm that simply affected a large area.
Or, is this analogous to those textual critics efforts to surmise the Moses' crossing the Red Sea was simply crossing some marshland on the northern fringes of the Red Sea, thus marginalizing God's power to wring out great disaster and greater miracles.
Regardless, it is interesting archaeology. I love National Geographic type stuff.
Black Sea
Does the Black Sea = Noah's Flood? First, I am not postulating that, but it was the source of a National Geographic article when I was subscribing, and they have followed up on it.
The famous submarine explorer Robert Ballard who uncovered the Titantic found a submerged village under the Black Sea. Scientists postulate that the Black Sea like the Caspian Sea was significantly below sea level and much smaller in antiquity. Some cataclysm triggered a rupture of the ancient isthmus between Europe and Asia Minor, and opened up the Strait of the Bosporus, flooding the Black Sea basin until it presumably reached parity with the Mediterranean.
Some people have tried to assert that this was Noah's flood. What do you guys think of the idea of marginalizing Noah's flood from an earth-encompassing cataclysm to a regional cataclysm that simply affected a large area.
Or, is this analogous to those textual critics efforts to surmise the Moses' crossing the Red Sea was simply crossing some marshland on the northern fringes of the Red Sea, thus marginalizing God's power to wring out great disaster and greater miracles.
Regardless, it is interesting archaeology. I love National Geographic type stuff.
Black Sea