[blam]

"I can't think of any reason localized flooding in the Black Sea area as a result of breach of an ice dam has any real relationship to the flood described in Genesis--can you?"

It wasn't an ice dam. As the Mediterranean water level rose from the ice melting from the ending of the Ice Age...it became high enough to break the earthern dam at the Bosphorus and flooded the previous freshwater Black Sea shore-line under 550 feet of salt water. Thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people would have been scrambling for their lives and fleeing in all directions. This story would have endured.

[farmfriend]

I don't believe that this was the cause of the Noah's flood stories but I find the event itself fascinating.