Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 16:48:41 GMT
Jun 18, 2018 14:25:24 GMT @fjh said:
No, the fluctuation from a glacial to inter-glacial period wouldn't cause sudden catastrophic flooding anywhere.We know from the archaeological record that these periods naturally take a long time (couple of thousand years or more). There would be a gradual geomorphological change, a very gradual slow sea level change. Nobody alive would perceive it as a flood event. We are talking such a slow rate of sea level change that land flora could migrate away from it quick enough.
I will agree that most flood stories are exaggerated. But...
An event like a massive meteor shower, or several volcanic eruptions, (or a temporary heat wave) could have heated up the planet (or North America) very quickly, even if it was for just a short time, and caused a lot of the ice to melt very quickly...
Listen, don't tell me that ice doesn't melt quickly when you take it out of the freezer, and place it on a hot surface... I'VE SEEN IT HAPPEN WITH MY OWN EYES!... And we are talking about a lot of ice, when it comes to those glaciers. That water didn't just stay where it melted and form a small lake... It would have gone everywhere.
Scientists have already stated the ocean levels were 300 to 400 feet lower during the last ice age, than they are today, and we know from our own history, people chose to build communities where there were water sources to drink, and where they could build shipping ports where they could sail and fish, because they didn't have cars and trains back then to travel a hundred miles from higher elevations every day to where the water was!
There are many of archaeological sites that have been found under lakes and under 400 feet of ocean all over the world... That could have only been in use during the last ice age, or before that...
Hasn't it ever occurred to you, that the flood stories came from the survivors of those lost communities?
After all, the people living there didn't abandon them, just because they didn't like their neighbors!... And if they did, that is one hell of a coincidence, that not long after they left, all those communities just happened to became permanently submerged...
I think all these floods stories, as well as the story of Atlantis, have a core of truth to them. That water 'sunk" everything that they knew, and people were killed in the process... Something which had not happened to them in their recorded history. This was unprecedented.
It's much more likely... Than a bunch of civilizations all over the planet coming up with almost the exact same "fictional" story, all happening at about the same time in history... when most civilizations hardly ever encountered other civilizations. And even if they were sharing stories... Why would one civilization, suddenly claim that a flood, also nearly wiped them out too, when they know such a thing never happened to them?... Because it was the cool thing to do? I don't think so!