Growing Evidence of a World Flood
Discoveries of sunken ruins of ancient cities in at least three locations
around the planet give growing support to a world-wide myth that
a catastrophic flood once destroyed ancient civilizations.
The mythical reports, from the Book of Genesis to Plato's famous
story of the lost continent of Atlantis, are part of a broad list
of ancient stories that suggest a deluge of Biblical proportions
really happened.
That archaeologists are exploring newly discovered evidence of ancient
cities in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of Japan, in the Indian
Ocean off the coast of India, and the Atlantic Ocean off the coast
of Cuba is an interesting new development. These discoveries, if
they prove to be what they appear, will also enhance argument that
the history of human existence is much older than once believed.
British author Graham Hancock claims in his books that everything
we know about ancient history is wrong. He argues that civilization
didn't start in Sumeria and Egypt around 3,500 BC, but instead, was
present 10,000 years before in great cities that were destroyed by
cataclysm.
"We have 600 flood myths around the world," he said in an interview
with a British newspaper, The Guardian. "Archeologists tell us these
are meaningless; all they represent are psychological archetypes
-- memories of birth, in the case of the flood -- or exaggerations
of local river floods."
"The other thing that almost always goes with these myths is the
notion of an antediluvian civilization," Hancock said. He explained
that antediluvian means stories about "something which existed before
the flood and was destroyed by it. I couldn't see any good reason
why these universal myths shouldn't be a memory of that event, yet
I found that this idea hadn't been explored," he said.
Indeed, until now the concept of a great civilization that existed
in a pre-flood era has lacked any scientific support. Yet anomalies,
things that appear to contradict the official "Bible version" of
human history, keep popping up as archaeologists, miners and contractors
grub in the surface of our planet.
The remains of an ancient spark plug found in a lump of coal mined
in California, a solid gold model of a modern jet aircraft unearthed
in Mexico and the silicone calcification of sand in various areas
of the world, giving evidence of ancient atomic warfare, are difficult
to explain.
World mythology is filled with strange stories of ancient civilizations.
Plato give us the story of Atlantis, a great city that mysteriously
sank into what we now call the Atlantic Ocean. Far Eastern cultures
have another story about an ancient civilization of Mu, located on
a lost continent of Lemuria, which disappeared somewhere in the Southern
Pacific Ocean. Legend has it that both Lemuria and Atlantis existed
at about the same time, roughly 12,000 years ago, and that they were
both victims of some kind of catastrophic event.
Dr. Joseph Dillow, in his book "The Waters Above," and Dr. Larry
Vardiman in a book, "The Sky is Falling," explore a theory that a
thick vapor canopy once surrounded the Earth, creating a perfect
climate that made the entire planet lush and green. But they say
the Earth was flooded when this canopy collapsed sometime around
8,000 or 10,000 years ago. Dillow uses Old Testament references to
support the theory. The writers also note unexplained phenomenon,
like the discovery of frozen animals in the frigid tundra regions
of North America and Russia. These animals, many of them dinosaurs
with grass and flowers still in their mouths, apparently died so
quickly they didn't have time to swallow or digest their food.
That the animals were feeding on plants that only grow in warm, temperate
climates, and that the list of frozen animals include saber toothed
tigers, horses and many other creatures that would not live in such
frigid areas, suggests that something extraordinary happened at the
moment they perished. Either there was a dynamic pole shift, or something
else caused an extreme and almost instant drop in temperature. It
happened so quickly, the animals died in their tracks. The remains
were stored in a deep freeze that preserved them, intact, for thousands
of years.
The vapor canopy theory might explain how the Earth could have had
an advanced antediluvian civilization that was suddenly destroyed
by a catastrophic flood. But questions about how that fits in with
the theory of plate movements and the splitting of a super land mass
called Pangaea into smaller continents sets the mind spinning. That
a recent mapping of the floor of the Atlantic Ocean shows a clear
line where the continents of Europe and Africa broke away from North
and South America and then slowly drifted apart, gives credence to
the super continent theory.
If deep water archaeological expeditions someday prove that the sonar
images of square, rectangular and triangular shapes on the ocean
bottoms of the world are really the ruins of ancient cities, it will
only compound the mystery of what happened.
It is obvious that human origins on this planet are older and more
mysterious than we once thought.
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