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The first thing I thought of too. A massive earthquake with juust the right condition could squeeze some water in the ocean. Or tsunami like event for a simpler
by venomsnake 12y ago
The first thing I thought of too. A massive earthquake with juust the right condition could squeeze some water in the ocean. Or tsunami like event for a simpler explanation. Or something just big enough to make a good splash in some sea.
The flood myth is very persistent but we need to have in mind that humanity was tiny back then. So even a 2011 Japanese like tsunami could be the flood.
- arethuza 12y agoThere have been large tsunamis caused by underwater landslides - notably the Storegga Slide off Norway that inundated a lot of areas in what are now Scotland and Norway ~8000 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide The Storegga Slide might also have been, at least partly, responsible for the disappearance of Doggerland under the North Sea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland