Biblical-style flood tore Britain from France : Scientists Claim UK/France Land Mass Once joined.

The Australian ^ | 09/25/2006 | Jonathan Leake

[SirLinksalot]

Biblical-style flood tore Britain from France Jonathan Leake

September 25, 2006

SCIENTISTS have found that Britain owes its island status to a catastrophic flood that swept away in less than 24 hours the hills that once joined the land mass to France.

The flood, which took place between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago, instantly turned Britain from being a peninsula of continental Europe into a separate entity, changing forever the way it would develop.

The finding has emerged from an advanced sonar survey of the sea bed of the English Channel that revealed huge scour marks, deep bowls and piles of rock that could have been created only by a giant torrent of water. If confirmed, it will force an important revision of British prehistory.

It had been thought the Channel had formed by slow erosion combined with rises in sea level that took place over millions of years, rather than by a sudden, biblical-style catastrophe.

"This could have been one of the most powerful flood events ever known on earth," said Chris Stringer, head of human origins at the Natural History Museum in London. "It would have cut through the chalk hills joining Britain to Europe and created a Niagara-style waterfall 300ft (91.5m) to 400ft high."

Professor Stringer has been overseeing the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project, which brought together researchers from a range of disciplines to trace how Britain first became populated. Among the researchers were a team from Imperial College, in London, led by Sanjeev Gupta, who used sonar to survey the sea floor several kilometres off the Sussex coast.

[Abigail Adams]

I think it was about 4000 years ago.

[Alexander Rubin]

In other news, sky still blue. And, I was under the impression they were separated relatively recently.

[Fudd]

...advanced sonar survey of the sea bed of the English Channel revealed huge scour marks, deep bowls and piles of rock...

Or, maybe some jokester put a picture of Helen Thomas in their sonar readouts.

[GreyFriar]

Geology ping. H'mmmm perhaps this and not the flood that created the Black Sea is Noah's flood....:)

[HEY4QDEMS]

From a Brit's perspective being separated from France should be proof there is a God and he's smiling upon them. LOL

[M1Tanker]

New headline: "Biblical-style flood tore Britain from France. British thankfull"

[YaYa123]

Seeing this reminds me of my all time favorite reads, SARUM by Edward Rutherfurd. "Epic novel" is how it's aptly described, as it tells the tale of England isle from it's ice age beginning to modern times.

[Brilliant]

That flood saved the Brits from Hitler (not to mention the French).

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Interesting information. I remember reading about how the Black Sea went through a catastrophic flooding once the Med broke through the Dardanelles and Bosporus. Apparently, this was in prehistory, and there were two small lakes where the Black Sea is now. Many people lived around those lakes. There was a great article in National Geographic some years ago.

[dfwgator]

And the Brits got away from the Frogs as fast as they could.

[cpdiii]

News Headline, "FLOOD ISOLATES EUROPE FROM CIVILIZATION"
:) :) :) Archbishop of Canterberry gives praise to God.

[SirLinksalot]

Here is an interesting book you might want to read :

Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization

By Ian Wilson

SEE HERE :

http://www.amazon.com/Before-Flood-Biblical-Changed-Civilization/dp/0312319711/sr=8-14/qid=1159203557/ref=sr_1_14/103-2975855-7787044?ie=UTF8&s=books

[Red Badger]

Ephraim and Manassah will always be separated from their brethren.......

[Fatuncle]

... maybe some jokester put a picture of Helen Thomas in their sonar readouts.

Please don't say that. Please. Someone will post her (gag retch puke) picture.

[SirLinksalot]

Here is a report of the work of two scientists from Columbia University, William Ryan and Walter Pitman

Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History

SOURCE:

http://www.amazon.com/Noahs-Flood-Scientific-Discoveries-History/dp/0684859203/sr=8-2/qid=1159203920/ref=sr_1_2/103-2975855-7787044?ie=UTF8&s=books

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BRIEF REVIEW :

The Deluge of Noah has long been one of the points of tension between geology and Christianity. Scientific diluvianism--the theory that the earth's history was shaped by a universal flood--collapsed in the early 19th century, well before Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species. Since that time, scientists and historians have assumed that the flood story derived from local events in Mesopotamia.

In 1997, geologists Walter Pitman and William Ryan proposed the first truly novel interpretation of the flood in over 150 years. Their studies of sediments in the Black Sea convinced them that the body had been a freshwater lake until about 5600 B.C. When the rising waters of the Mediterranean broke through the Bosporus, "ten cubic miles of water poured through each day, two hundred times what flows over Niagara Falls."

With great intellectual daring, Pitman and Ryan have moved outside of their academic niche to suggest that this event had enormous consequences for human history. They marshal evidence from archeology, mythology, linguistics, and agriculture to describe a flood-driven diaspora of early farmers. Subsets of these people became (variously) proto-Indo-Europeans, Sumerians, Beaker People, Vincas, Tocharians--the founders of the early cultures of Europe and western Asia


From Publishers Weekly

Archeologists have long sought to prove that the great flood described in Genesis and in the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh was a historic event. Columbia University geologists Ryan and Pitman weigh in with a highly conjectural theory that seems as good as any other, if no better. Around 5600 B.C., they maintain, Noah's flood occurred when rising Mediterranean waters roared through the narrow Bosporus Strait, transforming the Black Sea, then a freshwater lake, into a bloated saltwater body. Taking a cue from Australian prehistorian Gordon Childe, who posited that Europe's first farmers came from Asia, the authors contend that the Black Sea at the time of the alleged flood was a fertile oasis, a cultural magnet where diverse peoples?farmers, animal breeders, artisans?exchanged techniques and possibly genes. They point to the sudden appearance in Europe, shortly after 5600 B.C., of "outsider" tribes, advanced farmers who, the theory goes, were fleeing the flooded Black Sea region. Other flood refugees, in this scenario, migrated to Russia's steppes, Anatolia, Mesopotamia and the Middle East, preserving memory of the catastrophe in mythic and oral traditions later enshrined on clay tablets and ultimately in the Bible. Ryan and Pitman base their theory partly on radiocarbon dating of marine sediments that they collected in 1993 during a Black Sea expedition and partly on Ice Age climatic patterns, modern linguists' quest for a proto-Indo-European mother tongue and genetic studies of population migrations over the millennia. Their complicated detective tale is intriguing, but much more solid evidence would be required to convince skeptics. Illustrated with drawings by Anastasia Sotiropoulos and maps by William Haxby.

[Fatuncle]

"The discovery of the Channel flood may help to solve one of the enduring mysteries of British archeology - the apparent abandonment of the British Isles by humans for 120,000 years.

Researchers have found that humans first arrived in Britain at least 700,000 years ago. They were driven out by repeated glaciations but returned whenever the land warmed up. They vanished completely between 180,000 and 60,000 years ago.

And, to hear certain Europeans tell it, humans still haven't returned to the British Isles.

[mtbopfuyn]

Oh, sure. A 24 hour flood but they can't decide if it took place 200,000 or 400,000 years ago.

[petertare]

Interesting how science makes constant changes of what it previously arrogantly cited as "fact"

Evolution/creation/Pluto/cold fusion/this then that

I am exhausted.

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