Sunday - November 19, 2006

The Great Flood?

May 10, 2807 BC - Noah and his sons finally had all the animals aboard and Noah knew that the bright light in the Southern sky was the hand of God about to descend on the idol worshipers and sinful people of Earth. All he could do was wait and pray the ship held together. Suddenly, the ground shook beneath the huge ship and it rocked on the beams propping it up as if the planet was wrenching in agony at some mysterious intrusion.

Gradually, over the course of the next few hours, the trembling slowed down with occasional tremors moving the giant ship around more and more. Slowly the sky began to darken as day turned into night. The animals stirred restlessly and outside large crowds of those God intended to destroy gathered and began pounding on the sides of the ship.

Then the rains came and lightning flashed across the sky in mighty rumbling sheets of righteous energy from the hand of God. Noah and his family huddled together and prayed while from the South a huge wall of water several hundred feet high approached at blinding speed, washing all before it. The cleansing had begun ....

At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high.

On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts. And all of them point in the same direction — toward the middle of the Indian Ocean where a newly discovered crater, 18 miles in diameter, lies 12,500 feet below the surface.

The explanation is obvious to some scientists. A large asteroid or comet, the kind that could kill a quarter of the world’s population, smashed into the Indian Ocean 4,800 years ago, producing a tsunami at least 600 feet high, about 13 times as big as the one that inundated Indonesia nearly two years ago. The wave carried the huge deposits of sediment to land.

-- “Ancient Crash, Epic Wave” (NY TIMES)

This asteroid landed in the seabed (30.87 S / 61.36 E - See Map Below) and sent a 600-900 foot high wall of water - a megatsunami - around the Indian Ocean, impacting land as far away as Australia, and crashing onto the coast of Africa, up the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and quite possibly into the Mediterranean Sea as well.

This asteroidal impact would have sent a huge surge of water into the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, flooding the ancient land of Sumeria, the source of the Biblical flood legend. Indeed, Sir Leonard Wooley, the archaeologist who discovered the city of Ur, found 30 feet of flood-deposited sand that separated the most ancient levels of the city from newer habitation levels on top of the flood debris.

Abbott’s findings of deep-sea meteor/asteroid strike craters (which she has developed the technology to discover) indicates that large-scale cosmic strikes hit the earth much more frequently than scientists have previously postulated - perhaps every 1 to 3 thousand years, instead of every hundred thousand or so.

Large asteroid strikes also produce weather alterations, and many more global phenomena. Interestingly, the period 2800BC is when the first dynasty of Egypt started.

-- “Origin Of The Flood Legends” (HISTORY CHANNEL)

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/19/2006 at 03:19 PM   
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