5 Cheshvan, 5784 / 20 October, 2023

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¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. ¹² And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:11-12 (ESV)

It’s just a childish, fun bed time story for kids with over active imaginations right? I mean, you don’t really believe the flood really happened do you?

In response: if there is a God able to create a mind boggingly complex universe and hold it all together then that God is surely able to regulate conditions on one small planet called Earth.

Secondly, that God could easily use celestial bodies to also influence things…such as a comet?

Bruce Masse, an environmental archaeologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, says he has discovered evidence that indicates a gigantic 3 mile wide comet crashed into the Indian Ocean about five thousand years ago and nearly wiped out all life on the planet. The impact would have been devastating. Huge worldwide super hurricanes would have been spawned by the superheated water vapour. 600 foot (182 m) high tsunami waves would have crashed against coastlines instantly wiping out life.

As the waves headed northward they would have been funnelled into the Straits of Hormuz devastating the ancient civilisation of Mesopotamia (located in the south of present day Iraq). This is the traditional location of Noah. The ark would have been carried northward in the huge sea created by the devastation and ended up in the highlands of south eastern Turkey on Mount Ararat.

An article with an overview of the scientific study can be found here:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/did-a-comet-cause-the-great-flood

© Stephen Paul Jacob