[Oatka]

But most cultures have a legend about a massive flood, roughly around the same time in history.

Immanuel Velikovsky got crucified by the scientific community when he wrote Worlds in Collision in 1950.

Most of it makes more sense to me than the current expalanations.

[SunkenCiv]

The Catastrophism ping list began life as an informal and stealth version of a Velikovsky ping list; however, the bulk of the pings (it’s a low-volume list) pertain to catastrophism, rather than to his reconstruction of ancient history.

Catastrophism ‘blog:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1607979/posts

Catastrophism keyword:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=catastrophism

Velikovsky keyword:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=velikovsky