Did Noahs Flood Really Happen?
Sorry Christians, Jews, and Muslims–the flood account from Genesis, which all your faiths accept, remains a “legend,” according to The New York Times. And this despite the fact that scientific discoveries increasingly support the notion that the Flood actually happened! “The flood legends of Mesopotamia and the Bible” is how the Times recently described beliefs about a huge, ancient inundation once covered much of the Earth. Oddly, this choice of words occurred in a news report about a study, just published in the American Journal of Archeology, giving evidence that a huge, ancient inundation once covered much of the Earth. Researchers studying the Black Sea off Sinop, a city in Turkey, found indications that a catastrophic flood struck the area approximately 7,000 years ago, flooding inhabited land and turning the Black Sea from fresh to saline. Sinop is roughly 500 miles from the ancient Holy Land. Oceanographers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute for Exploration,
