I have been asked to start my own thread, so I will.
Here is a link to one of my favorite web sites. They say that when it comes to biodiversity, the Philippines makes Darwin's islands look like the little league. You have to click on the arrow on the bottom of each page, to go onto the next page in the artical.
http://www.fmnh.org/vanishing_treasures/Origins_1.htm
Off shore oil exploration has showed us a few things. First of all, the world is a very different place today, then what it was 15,000 years ago, when the last ice age was beginning to come to a end. For one thing, the ocean level has gone up 300 to 400 feet. This means around 12,000 years ago, there was a lot of world wide flooding. At the same time land in the north that had been covered with ice was again becoming productive.
One interesting thing is the Philippines, is that the biodiversity of life seems to be based on a pre flood distribution. You will find two islands with 80% identical animal life on it. If you go back 12,000 years you will see that those islands, before the ocean level went up, were joined together as one island. Just as you will find islands in the Philippines where the animal and plant life is very different from the island right next to it. There you will find that those islands were never joined together, even before the world wide flood.
Next we look at modern Turkey and Armenia. Below is a map of that area. It is pretty easy to see that the area starts at a level of 2000 feet above sea level. They would not be effected by a 300 or 400 foot flood. Unless there was a natural land dam, that held the water in. By the eleveation map, you can see IF there was a natural land dam, then it is possible that the flood could have put the water level up around the 5000 feet needed to cover the top of the hills and to get Noahs ark up to the top of Mt Arafat.
The theory then is, that there was a natural land formation, that held back the melting water from the ice. But the force of the water became so powerful that the land formation melted and this area was hit with a very rapid and violent flood. Later when the water level went down, a pass had been opened up and for the first time the people from the east and the west could begin to go back and forth. This is when the trade roads between the east and the west first began to be established.
Here is a link to one of my favorite web sites. They say that when it comes to biodiversity, the Philippines makes Darwin's islands look like the little league. You have to click on the arrow on the bottom of each page, to go onto the next page in the artical.
http://www.fmnh.org/vanishing_treasures/Origins_1.htm
Off shore oil exploration has showed us a few things. First of all, the world is a very different place today, then what it was 15,000 years ago, when the last ice age was beginning to come to a end. For one thing, the ocean level has gone up 300 to 400 feet. This means around 12,000 years ago, there was a lot of world wide flooding. At the same time land in the north that had been covered with ice was again becoming productive.
One interesting thing is the Philippines, is that the biodiversity of life seems to be based on a pre flood distribution. You will find two islands with 80% identical animal life on it. If you go back 12,000 years you will see that those islands, before the ocean level went up, were joined together as one island. Just as you will find islands in the Philippines where the animal and plant life is very different from the island right next to it. There you will find that those islands were never joined together, even before the world wide flood.
Next we look at modern Turkey and Armenia. Below is a map of that area. It is pretty easy to see that the area starts at a level of 2000 feet above sea level. They would not be effected by a 300 or 400 foot flood. Unless there was a natural land dam, that held the water in. By the eleveation map, you can see IF there was a natural land dam, then it is possible that the flood could have put the water level up around the 5000 feet needed to cover the top of the hills and to get Noahs ark up to the top of Mt Arafat.
The theory then is, that there was a natural land formation, that held back the melting water from the ice. But the force of the water became so powerful that the land formation melted and this area was hit with a very rapid and violent flood. Later when the water level went down, a pass had been opened up and for the first time the people from the east and the west could begin to go back and forth. This is when the trade roads between the east and the west first began to be established.
