[vannrox]

How can I comment on this? Noahs flood was a myth -- a fabricration like a modern day romance novel? Yea. As if the few trained scribes ...less than 1% of 1% of the population would have the time on their hands to compose such a story.

Let us not forget that the flood stories are GLOBAL and every religion has them (maybe one or two out of ten million don't..but that's another argument).

[HEY4QDEMS]

As the saying goes "For those who don't believe, no proof will do. For those who believe, no proof is needed."...or something like that

[thulldud]

Nothing to see here, folks. Let's move along....

[The Old Hoosier]

Another possibility is that it didn't happen exactly 7,500 years ago.

[RightWhale]

There is another story, almost identical. The boat ended up lodged in the Himilayas after getting an E-ticket ride from the coast, up the Indus River, and this also coincides with one of the major ice-dam floods at the end of the Ice Age.

[expatpat]

Geologists are very susceptible to herd-thinking. I recall years ago, when I told my geologist friends that I believed in Continental Drift, they derided be as a flat-earth-type idiot. Of course, 10 years later, even the geologists had to admit it was correct.

[Blueflag]

The author has not read Genesis. Noah took more than 2 of each kind. Go to the Bible to find the accurate rendition.

[Lloyd227]

"Let us not forget that the flood stories are GLOBAL and every religion has them "

I was just thinking that as I read through the article....... and... I don't believe that the "7500 years ago" is necessarily fixed in time biblically. Been a while since I sifted through the research, but I seem to recall that 7500 years ago was just one of several ways to calculate the time period. The range as I recall could have been as long ago as the 12,000 year mark.

[RaceBannon]

Oh, good grief, once again, the flood of Noah was not limited to the Black Sea, it was over the entire world, that's why the sediments of the Black Sea wont agree.

The rate of deposition changed as the landscape changed after the flood. The sediments came downnot just from the flood, but as the waters receeded, and the Black Sea was formed itself, and since none of us was there at the time, we do ot know the order whch wall came down to fill the Sea in in the first place.

Either way, the Bible says Noah's flood covered the entire world, not just a local area, no matter how big the local area.

[LiteKeeper]

There is just too much evidence for the Flood to take this liberal rag's word. Who do you trust?

[af_vet_rr]

Let us not forget that the flood stories are GLOBAL and every religion has them (maybe one or two out of ten million don't..but that's another argument).

People tend to forget that. Yes, a lot in the Bible is metaphorical, but when you have something so large, that so many civilizations/religions have mentioned it all around the world, long before they came in contact with one another, there has to be some thought and weight given to it. You simply don't have all of these civilizations and religions all remembering a large flood if it didn't happen.

[Thud]

I've read Pitman's book and there is just too much evidence for his flood theory, starting with a marine shelf well below the present level of the Black Sea. Just one shelf, not a succession of them. And there are village sites down there.

Note this Newsday article's last sentence: "Ryan pointed out that Aksu's team did most of its work outside the Black Sea, mapping the flow of water, the build-up of sediments and other evidence beyond the southern end of the Bosporus."

A two-year event is a geologic blip. The only effective way to discredit the Ryan/Pitman theory is to develop plausible other explanations for their geologic and archaeological evidence underneath the Black Sea.

[Junior]

Just about every society has formed around waterways, and waterways flood on occasion. It doesn't mean there was a global flood. Indeed, there is absolutely no evidence for a global flood at any time, period.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

New findings put Noah's epic story to the test

They've found unicorns?

[plain talk]

But you really don't know, do you? The first step is admit how clueless we all are, assume some humility and admit that a soveriegn God COULD have done everything just as it says in the Bible - OR - it's possible that the Noah's ark episode was a myth that well meaning people passed down and Moses put it down believing it was what happened. We'll never know for sure until we die, will we? Proving the episodes in Genesis probably can't be proved one way or the other. What IS important, however, is that you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior. But until you can let go of the typical man-centered scoff about Christianity you can't accept Christ. Remember, the greatest sin of all is human pride. Peace.