It would be very interesting for analyze what taking place 12000 years ago on the Earth and what can dwellers anticipate before geocatastrophe. Flood will happen again… By the historical sources, archaeological researches, and another scientific researches have proved the geocatastrophe really happened 12,000 years ago.
In reality during these two days of the flood had been powerful shock shaking and strong earthquakes all over the Earth. Continental and oceanic lithosphere platforms were under totally shaking. Many volcanoes began eruption simultaneously on the Earth surface and from the oceans beds cracks. From oceanic lithosphere platforms borders colossal amount of fiery masses of the asthenosphere were flowing into the ocean (across rift zones) by this time. All of this geocatastrophic events caused intensive and long-lasting boiling and evaporation process of water. This was followed by heavy rainfall, which lasted for many weeks. Thick black clouds of volcanic ash covered almost the whole planet Earth. Tropical zone for short time period and other region for longer time period didn’t experience the influence of the Sun. The reason of the huge boiling and evaporation of water masses was erupted liquid fiery magma masses from Asthenosphere into oceans. After such detail explanation it’s easy to understand why the heavy rainfall lasted about several weeks on the Earth. In different areas of the Earth, duration of rain falls was different. In some places it rained for a few weeks only, in others 40 days and so on. All this of course could be connected with definite areas location relatively to the sea level, nearness of the regions to oceans and seas and other factors. Huge volcanic suffocate gasses was spreading into atmosphere during floods, and changed the percentage of atmospheric chemical consistence and chemical composition. During a long time this caused very influence on the life of mammals’ kingdom.
Floods were covering huge areas of the land by this time. Because of the geological platforms total shaking, water flown out from the coasts, greatly ruptured fauna and very damage flora. In soil layers, which existed 12000 years ago, find out volcanic ash and sea mud, almost several hundred meters height deposited there from sea level. At the left coast of South America water reached 900 meter from sea level. It means Pacific Ocean bed is main sours of huge deformations, vibrations and floods.
12000 years ago volcanic dust was ascended and existed into high layers of atmosphere for a long time period. Because of volcanic dust and thick black clouds the Earth lacked Sun’s warmth. Many fishes were boiled alive in seas and oceans. After few months on the most part of Earth temperature began to fall down, which did freezing for several months follow. Mainly tropical zone survived this process. It enabled elephants and other big mammals to survive and not disappear totally.
Ocean bed was shaking at the beginning stage of the flood during 2 days and caused huge vibration of zero level of oceans. Global shaking of continental and oceanic lithosphere platforms changed izostatical balance. Because of slowly rising and submerging movements of continental platforms, their geographical contours were changed as well. Temporal drift of continents was few day. A slow process displacement of tiles has been known long ago. The renewing process of the ocean bed is going in the Pacific Ocean still. Such process could never caused formation of new mountain ranges. This process only causes melting process of solid ocean bed hard masses into asthenosphere little by little.
Let’s imagine for a second, what a catastrophe of a small power in today’s conditions could be followed by. Modern process of cooling in asthenosphere little by little forms colossal pressure. Periodic volcanic explosions can’t neutralize this burst pressure. It can be neutralized only by periodic small power of geocatastrophe (flood). Long - lasting shaking of Earth crust will activates many passive volcanoes and creates many new ones. Liquid magma will flow through the cracks between the lithosphere plates spatially through mid-ocean ridges. The process of Earth crust shaking during several days will erase totally all settlements of the Earth. Giant disaster will kill a huge number of people. Heavy rains lasting many weeks will cause terrible floods. From destroyed power plant dams colossal masses of water flow. Huge masses of water from oceanic depth will cover huge places of the land and will destroy almost everything that escaped disaster. Global shaking of ocean beds will cause pouring out of huge water masses from oceanic depth on the land. The final stage of Apocalypse is a glacial. Many those survived creatures in such low temperature will be killed. Strange conditions with warm seas, oceans and continents covered by snow and ice will appear on the Earth. Alive boiling fishes will decay in oceans and seas. The decaying process will be same on the continents as well. Together with the cold, as a result of starvation many creatures on the Earth will die as well. Ruins of many cities close to oceans and seas coasts will sink fully and forever. At the initial stage of flood strongest storms occur. Reason will be fast movement of atmospheric streams. During this stage many volcanoes will explode simultaneously.

An update of an old debate.



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While some areas of the world have some evidence of a post-glacial, post-ice age "deluge", such as the Black Sea, there is no evidence that the world was affected by any thing like this. Since I view the Bible as allegory and not science it makes sense that the idea of a "total" flood has at it's roots in classic myths of creation/destruction/rebirth. As for not having much information prior to known ancient cultures, there is little evidence if any of societal based written communication prior to the end of the last ice age. We do have however cave and rock paintings going back several tens of thousands of years. Due to the lack of communication other then verbal between differing groups prior to the end of the ice age most of the art work is highly individualized (not alphabet based). Yet we do see highly realistic and representative as well as abstract paintings all over. As for the concept of an ark, and the need to get life forms of all kinds unless your dealing in metaphor things get so silly as to be incapable of rational argument.

NOM,
>Just how big was this ark? Two of everything? So he spent centuries traversing the globe collecting these millions of species, then several centuries putting them back?


Knowing the answers to these 3 or 4 questions will not change your thinking but, if you want to find the answers,,, read the Bible for the answers. If your going to slam the flood theory, at least get it right first, then do your best to debate it. That's OK but, The statements you made here are like debating global warming with someone that heard someone else's take on the Al Gore movie and they are now convinced that we are all going to die in 10 years. In order to debate anything one must first understand their opponent's view.

I haven't thoroughly read all the posts in this thread, but has it occurred to anyone that instead of one worldwide flood there may have been a few year period of many local floods? That would explain it all, including why the bible and other sources describe a worldwide flood. After all, when a foreign army or trader showed up, they too would have tales of flooding that occurred around the same time...

To BigDumbWeirdo:Yes localized floods were a dime a dozen, yet had nothing to do with a "global " flood. i have never remotely seen or heard any argument in favor of a this. Floods terrified people as they still do, often in the past because destruction was maximal, and these things happened often with little or no warning. between an affirmation that life could in a hart beat be taken, as well as assuring people that there are certain natural cycles. Again, I base my views on the Bible was allegorical and not historic for the most part. Of course there are those who take the Bible, despite multiple translations over a long period of time as true word for word. Certainly we all have a right to this or any opinion, some of mine might or might not concur with others. Last the idea of a universal flood to me is better explained as part of the archetypal need to explain the unexplainable then actual events.