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In reply to the discussion: Cosmos & Neil Degrasse Tyson state that Great Flood occurred in Sumeria & retold as Noah's Ark [View all]Blanks
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Where they talked about the Tigris and Euphrates valley where Adam and Eve were first 'created' being flooded at the end of the last ice age (about 10,000 years ago) the valley was flooded because glaciers were holding back a bunch of water.
It could have been in the area that's now the Mediterranean Sea, but the point is that as the glaciers melted from the last ice age and areas were flooded as a result of 'dams breaking' flooding would be likely.
My issue with the Noah's ark believers is the unlikelihood that someone - anyone took a big unmotorized boat around the world delivering kangaroos to Australia elephants to Africa (smaller eared elephants to India) llamas to South America and raccoons to North America. I just can't buy that. That's the big hole in the story to me.
That and the fact that it takes more than 2 members of a species to prevent extinction according to the population calculations that are performed in differential equations.