Why I think Noah's "erets" flood occurred around 10,900 BC
and ended in Turkey.
Intro: For a long time I thought the flood waters destroyed all air
breathing life on earth, except for those in the ark.
That view has problems. I now believe the flood, at the minimum,
filled the land of Turkey up with water. As 1st Samuel 30:16 shows
sometimes "the whole earth" or "all the earth" can refer to a country
or land area. The word translated land or earth in 1st Samuel 30:16 is
the main one of the two words used in Genesis when talking about the
extent of Noah's flood. Either Hebrew word "erets" or "adamah" can
refer to a country, land, or earth. In the New Testament "world" from
"cosmos" can refer to world in a narrow or in a broad way. John 12:19
is an example where it was meant in a narrow sense. I also don't think
the flood was caused by an overflowing river or why build an ark? Why
not just move yourself and the animals to higher land? I think the flood
covered the tops of the mountains Noah was able to observe.
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Note: Various mountains and other visible parts of the earth were
covered by water in the past. However, they were not all covered by
water at the same time! Different areas of the earth were covered by
water at different times.
(1) What caused the Younger Dryas Age around 12,900 years ago. At that
time there is evidence that millions of mammoths were rapidly frozen by
being quickly encased in ice. Deep in the Atlantic Ocean soot and
glassy particles were found melted by high heat. The ice in the North
Pole was 4K meters or 2 and 1/2 miles thick at some places. Sea levels
increased by perhaps 120 meters or 390 feet over Doggerland and other areas.
Doggerland connected Europe to Great Britain. Ice during the Younger Dryas
Age had lots of soot, as well as Platinum, Iridium, nanodiamonds, and
metallic microspherules in it. Some scientist think the Black Mat during
the Younger Dryas age was caused by an asteroid type body being tore apart
when it got too close to the Earth. Like what happened during the Tunguska
event over Russia in 1908. I think it is quite possible the satellite that
orbited the Earth during the Tiahuanaco calender time period got too close
and was tore apart by the gravity of the Earth resulting in the Younger
Dryas Age occuring in days not years, as the dirty ice came in over the
North and South magnetic poles.
(2) Why were many caves with drawings and movable art made by man,
blocked around 10,000 B.C. to 12,000 B.C. "Images of the Ice Age"
by Paul G Bahn. Page 56. Third paragraph down. I think many of the
caves became blocked due to the flexing of the earth's crust as Mars
caused crustal tides in the earth, around Spain & Turkey, etc. (It's
possible the date is off some.)
(3) Did Noah's "erets" flood cover the whole Earth or the whole land?
"Erets" and "adamah" the Hebrew words normally translated Earth in our
English Bibles when talking about the flood can also be translated
"country" or "land." I believe "erets" and "adamah" are better translated
land when talking about the area the flood covered. Everyone in the "erets"
or land of the flood that wasn't on the ark died. But I also believe
the flood probably affected the whole Earth.
(4) According to the Bible how many days were the flood waters high before
they began to go down? Genesis 7:11 says the fountains of the great deep
(the oceans) and the windows of heaven (the sky) were opened on the 17th
of the 2nd month. Genesis 7:12 says it rained for 40 days and nights.
Note: Donald Patten theorized it took 40 days for the icy from the tore
apart icy asteroid to come in over the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
as it picked up electrical charges, collided, and descended. Genesis 7:17
says the flood was on the earth for 40 days. Genesis 7:24 says the waters
prevailed for 150 days on the earth. Genesis 8:3 says after 150 days the
waters were abated or decreased. Genesis 8:4 says the ark rested (probably
moored via anchor according to David Fasold in "The Ark of Noah") on the
17th of the 7th month. That would be five months or 150 days.
(5) How did God keep the floods waters high on the Earth for 150 days?
I think Mars made 150 very elliptical geostationary orbits around the
Earth before Mars was pulled close enough to the Earth perhaps by the
gravity of Jupitor that it reached escape velocity and proceeded on
its way. The gravity of Mars kept the water on the land high just like
the moon and the Sun cause the tides in the oceans.
(6) Where did the ark land? The Bible tells us the ark landed in the
mountains of Ararat. The mountains of Ararat refer to an area, not
necessarily Mount Ararat. Turkey says the remains of the ark are on
Mt. Judi which is in the Mount Ararat area. The waters from the oceans
returned back to the oceans, except for the flood waters that were
trapped in Turkey which is surrounded on all sides by Mountains. Noah
found himself in the ark which was inside a big slowly leaking bowl
we call Turkey. He proceeded to record his captain's log from inside
the ark in Turkey.
(7) The orbit of Mars around the Earth wasn't exactly geostationary.
Thus the flood waters and the ark gradually moved Eastward or Westward
from the ark's launching point to its resting (mooring) site in Turkey.
(8) Some more evidences for Noah's flood. Gilbert de Jong presents
evidence from Plato and other sources that Bolovia and a series of
Islands between Asia and South America were destroyed in many years ago.
You can read what Plato wrote about
Atlantis by clicking on page 2 of Timaeus. Tablet eleven of Gilgamesh
by John Gardner and John Maier describes the flood Utnapishtim survived by
using a reed-wall house to construct an ark. Utnapishtim's flood story
includes a dove, a swallow, a crow, and a plant eaten to make the old
young again. Atlantis has more interesting evidence about
the possible location of Atlantis in Bolivia in South America. Tiahuanaco
and the Deluge contains information about a preflood(?) settlement
under the lake near Tiahuanaco, a 290 day preflood calendar, and a small
satellite that orbited the Earth causing many solar and lunar eclipses
every year. You can read more about this in "The Calendar of Tiahuanaco"
by H. S. Bellamy and P. Allan. I disagree with much of Hoerbiger's
Cosmological Theory.
(9) Why is the oldest know town dated around 6500 B.C. in Turkey?
(First paragraph under History.)
(10) Why are the oldest farming communities in Europe dated by
radiocarbon as around 6200 B.C. and younger? "European Prehistory"
by Sarunas Milisauskas C 1978 by Academic Press, Inc. Page 47.
(11) Why can't we date the flood using the Genesis genealogies?
Because the Bible shows us there are gaps in the Biblical genealogies.
(12) It's interesting that Professor Alexander Tollmann, a geologist,
also thinks the flood was around 12,000 years ago. However, he
thinks a large comet hit the earth. He points to two discoveries
to back up his claim. Like Patten, he thinks part of the ozone
layer was destroyed at the time of Noah's flood. As Patten points
out in his book "The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch", and his
video "Cataclycism From Space 2800 B.C." Ozone in earth's upper
atmosphere shields life on earth's surface from the destructive
short wave radiation coming from the sun. However, any ozone in our
breathable environment is very toxic and causes extreme loss of
longevity.
Before the flood men lived about 900 years. After the flood men only
lived about 70 years. The longevity of the patriarchs before the flood
many have been caused by a plant. How so? The ends of our chromosomes
are capped by telomeres. Normal cells cannot divide unless their
telomeres are long enough. Normal aging reduces the length of a
chromosome's telomeres. Eventually, the telomeres become too short for
the cell to recognize them. Then the cell dies without being replaced.
The enzyme telomerase, when coded for by the cell, helps keep and restore
telomeres to their proper length. Before Noah's "erets" flood this
special plant many have supplied or activated the enzyme telomerase.
It could also be there was a plant that supplied compounds like CoQ10,
Alpha Lipoic Acid, etc. After the flood, this plant may have become
more scarce and thus less eaten, until the use of it finally stopped.
(13) Why did many animals especially in North America but also in
Europe, South America, Africa and Asia become extinct around
9,000 B.C. Did many of these larger animals, including mammoths
and sabor toothed tigers, die off as the result of a sudden ice age
which occurred around 10,900 BC? Maybe so, maybe not. There is a
good article at Talk Origins on "Ice Core Dating" by Matt Brinkman.
Concerning the Antarctica, Paul Heinrich has written about the
Oronteus Finaeus Map of 1532 and the Phillip Buache Map of 1737.
(14) According to the Hebrew text Noah's ark may have been covered with
"gopher ets" reed stalks which were evidently covered primarily with
magma or lava which probably had pumice, and natrons or salt compounds
in it. This evidently resulted in a type of cement covering which was very
strong, light, and waterproof. The VHS video "The Ark of Noah" shows a
section of this covering which was found near where some think the remains
of Noah's ark are 17 miles south of Mt Ararat at the base of Al Judi. This
section looks like it has the ribs of stalks inside it. Since the reed
stalks were once living I suggest these reeds be dated by a radiometric
dating method like carbon-14. It should be easy to determine if this
is a hoax or if it might actually be a section of siding that covered
Noah's ark. The radiometric date of the reeds if not a hoax should
help us to determine when Noah's flood actually occurred. Would someone
who is an expert in this arrange to have the reeds inside one of
these sections dated by carbon-14? The "Ark of Noah" by David Fasold
covers exactly how the ark was probably built with the bundles of reed
stalks in great detail. Dr Thor Heyerdahl oversaw the construction of two
reed boats in 1969-1970. In his first reed boat he and his crew sailed
almost 3000 miles while his second reed boat sailed over 3000 miles.
Lake Titicaca in Bolovia has floating totora reeds which some use to make
reed boats.