Religion vs Science
By dr.Napoleon
Savescu
For thousands of
years, the legend of great flood has endured in the biblical story of Noah and
such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Few scientists believed
that such a catastrophic deluge had actually occurred. But these Bible
“stories” for some scientific people appeared to have a real sense. Considering
that the religion and science has to work together, two distinguished
geophysicists have discovered an event that changed history; a sensational
flood 8,600 years ago in what is today the
Not only in the Bible we
found stories about the flood but also in the ancient clay tablets excavated
from the ruins of biblical
The end of the Cold War
enabled Ryan and Pitman to team up with oceanographers from
12,500 B.C., earth
temperature increased, and the Eurasian ice sheet started to melt. The level of
sea and oceans increased with 150 meters.
The Atlantic Ocean water
burst again through the
Sophisticated dating
technique, sometime using both the carbon 14 and a new method of Thermal
Ionization Mass Spectrometry (TIMS) confirmed that 8,600 years ago the mounting
seas had burst through the narrow Bosporus valley, and the salt water of
Mediterranean had poured into the lake with unimaginable force, racing over
beaches and up rivers, destroying or chasing all life before it. The margins of
the lake, which has been a unique oasis, a Garden of Eden for an advanced
culture in a vast region of semi-desert, became a sea of death. The people
fled, never to return.
Today scientific people
explore the exiting archeological, genetic, and linguistic evidence suggesting
that the flood rapidly created a human diaspora that
spread as far as Western Europe, Center Asia,
Biblical Noah’s Flood is
solidly grounded in contemporary science. It is an astonishing religious story
that sheds new light on our roots and gives fresh meaning to ancient myths.