Ono sto hocu da kazem je to da je Veliki potop ostao upamcen (prvi pisani spomen, otkriven i sacuvan, je u Gilgamesu) i prenosen epovima od kulture do kulture nasavsi svoje mjesto i u Starom Zavjetu i u Kuranu. Potop se doista desio ali nista natprirodno nije uvjetovalo toj kataklizmi, naprotiv, jednostavan prirodni proces topljenja zadnjih ledenjaka sjeverne Evrope prilikom cega je razina Sredozemnog mora bila povecana i tako prodrla kroz danasnji Bosfor u bazen danasnjeg Crnog mora. U isto vrijeme se desila jos jedna penetracija vode u kopno, danasnji Perzijski zaljev. Ta dva regiona su bila naseljena ondasnjim kulturama i ocigledno je da su iste nestale u treptaju oka. Koliko znamo, izmedju ta dva geografska toponima civilizacija je ugledala svoj dan i bila najproduktivnija u svojoj apstraktnoj misli. Tu je nastala vecina epova koji su evoluirali u danasnje abrahamske religije, sto je ocigledno.
Nista bozijeg nema u Velikom potopu!
Undersea explorer finds new evidence of great flood
September 13, 2000
Web posted at: 10:07 AM EDT (1407 GMT)
Artifacts found at the bottom of the Black Sea. The beam, left, shows signs of being worked by tools or implements
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first evidence that humans lived in an area now covered by the Black Sea -- perhaps inundated by the biblical flood -- has been found by a team of explorers.
"Artifacts at the site are clearly well preserved, with carved wooden beams, wooden branches and stone tools," lead researcher Robert Ballard said.
"We realize the broad significance the discovery has and we're going to do our best to learn more," Ballard said in a telephone interview Tuesday from his ship off the
northern coast of Turkey, west of the community of Sinop.
Fredrik Hiebert of the University of Pennsylvania, the team's chief archaeologist, said the discovery "represents the first concrete evidence for occupation of the Black Sea coast prior to its flooding."
"This is a major discovery that will begin to rewrite the history of the cultures in this key area between Europe, Asia and the ancient Middle East," Hiebert said.
The remnants of human habitation were found in more than 300 feet of water about 12 miles off the coast of Turkey.
From freshwater lake to saltwater sea
Many ancient Middle Eastern cultures have legends of a great flood, including the Bible story of Noah.
Columbia University researchers William Ryan and Walter Pittman speculated in their 1997 book "Noah's Flood" that when the European glaciers melted, about 7,000 years ago, the Mediterranean Sea overflowed into what was then a smaller freshwater lake to create the Black Sea.
Last year Ballard found indications of an ancient coastline miles out from the current Black Sea coast. The new discovery provides evidence that people once lived in that now inundated region.
Ballard, a National Geographic Society explorer in residence, said he studied shells found along the ancient coastline and found two types. One group is an extinct type of freshwater shell, while the second is from saltwater shellfish.
The saltwater shells date from the present back 6,500 years, while the freshwater shells all date to 7,000 years ago and older.
"So we know that there was a sudden and dramatic change from a freshwater lake to a saltwater sea 7,000 years ago," he said Tuesday.
"And we know that as a result of that flood a vast amount of land went under water.
"And we now know that land was inhabited. What we don't know is who these people are, we don't know how broad their settlements were ... but we're expanding our studies to try to determine that."
Structures found in underwater river valley
Ballard said his team, using remote-controlled underwater vessels with cameras, located a former river valley beneath the sea, and in the valley was the collapsed structure. Remains include preserved wooden beams that were worked by hand.
The structure was "clearly built by humans," and was characteristic of stone-age structures built 7,000 years ago in the interior of Turkey, Ballard said. It contained a stone chisel and two other stone tools with holes drilled through them, he said.
Two objects, possibly tools, with holes indicating they were drilled by a human, provide new evidence that humans faced a great flood
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