Noah's Flood - InspiringPhilosophy

Did the flood mentioned in the Bible (Genesis 6-8) actually happen? Was it just a fable that was stolen from Mesopotamian epics? Is there any evidence that can support the Biblical account?

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Sources:
Jeffery Rose - New Light on Human Prehistory in the Arabo-Persian Gulf Oasis

Mohammed El Bastawesy - The geomorphological and hydrogeological evidences for a Holocene deluge in Arabia

Ward E. Sanford - Thoughts on Eden, the Flood, and the Persian Gulf www2.wheaton.edu/ACG/news/news0701.html.

Speleothem-based paleoclimate record from northern Oman
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Edward S. Curtis - The North American Indian

Edward H. Mann - The Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands

Aboriginal Memories of Inundation of the Australian Coast Dating from More than 7000 Years Ago
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Sediment Cores from White Pond, South Carolina, contain a Platinum Anomaly, Pyrogenic Carbon Peak, and Coprophilous Spore Decline at 12.8 ka
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6805854/

Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling
https://www.pnas.org/content/104/41/16016

Younger Dryas sea level and meltwater pulse 1B recorded in Barbados reef crest coral Acropora palmata
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The abrupt termination of the Younger Dryas climate event
https://www.nature.com/articles/339532a0

A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381518/

Cultural hitchhiking and competition between patrilineal kin groups explain the post-Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04375-6

Paul Copan & Douglas Jacoby - Origins: The Ancient Impact and Modern Implications of Genesis 1-11

S. Joshua Swamidass - The Genealogical Adam and Eve

Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02842?fbclid=IwAR3kgH4UmbXXZe17xd4xNZxL3RuUpJMi04gM0DINvjq9di8KI-h_rU9GvwQ

John Walton & Tremper Longman III - The Lost World of the Flood

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to the Mountains of Armenia

Irving Finkel - The Ark Before Noah

James Hoffmeier - Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither?

John Walton - Ancient Israelite Literature in its Cultural Context

Nahum Sarna - The JPS Torah Commentary: Genesis

W.G. Lambert & A. R. Millard - Atrahasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood

Kenneth A. Kitchen - The Bible In Its World

Richard Hess & David Toshio Tsumura - I Studied Inscription From Before the Flood

Richard Hess - Israelite Religions

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