The Great Flood in Legend, Science and History (eBook, ePUB)
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This book is an expansive, open-minded, and scientific investigation into Flood legends of all kinds, including those with a basis in various religions as well as those of the traditions of many peoples. In parallel with legendary floods, the book also examines the floods of orthodox geology, be they tsunamis, marine invasions or outburst floods from dam failures of one kind or another. Since the asteroid impact theory of the demise of the dinosaurs was generally accepted, a much favored flood agent is some kind of bolide impact in the ocean, leading to a mega-tsunami in over the land. However...
This book is an expansive, open-minded, and scientific investigation into Flood legends of all kinds, including those with a basis in various religions as well as those of the traditions of many peoples. In parallel with legendary floods, the book also examines the floods of orthodox geology, be they tsunamis, marine invasions or outburst floods from dam failures of one kind or another. Since the asteroid impact theory of the demise of the dinosaurs was generally accepted, a much favored flood agent is some kind of bolide impact in the ocean, leading to a mega-tsunami in over the land. However, there is little evidence support of such impacts and their supposed mega-tsunamis. At the beginning of modern science in the sixteenth century, the Flood was accepted as fact and a number of scientists proposed a comet as its cause. We find, in fact, that since those times, a comet has repeatedly been proposed as the agent responsible. As geology developed during the eighteenth century major floods were accepted as fact, based on the evidence, and the term 'diluvialism' was used to describe the doctrine or philosophy. This doctrine held sway until uniformitarianism came along and rejected major flooding of any kind, and the symbol of its victory is the geological site known as Siccar Point in Scotland, where James Hutton supposedly showed that geological processes took place slowly over infinite ages. This book, however, shows that Hutton was mistaken, and the Siccar Point site is a testament to catastrophe, and not uniformity. The book then moves to archaeology and we examine the Flood evidence found in Mesopotamia at a number of widely scattered sites. This evidence consists of exceedingly thick layers of silt that could only have been laid down by excessively heavy flooding, thus confirming a flood in the valley at about 5,100 years ago. Coincidently we have a cuneiform tablet that shows the passage of a cosmic body at 5123 BCE, which is proposed here as its cause. The author graduated from University College Cork, Ireland, in 1986 with a Batchelor's degree in geology, and began his career as a professional geologist working on water resources and environmental geology in both Ireland and the United States. Finding that the work of a geologist did not really appeal to him, he left the field and pursued his interest in the science of geology independently. Driven by a primary interest in the enigma of the Ice Age, the author embarked on a quest to solve what is probably the greatest mystery in geology, undeterred by the many decades of of prior and futile efforts that had preceded his. Growing up near formerly glaciated landscapes in Ireland, and living among them in the Northeastern U.S., he became very familiar with the evidence the Ice Age left behind. Careful observation, an eye for detail, and an open mind enabled the author to achieve insights previously missed or obscured by an excessive adherence to traditional gradualist academic doctrine. His review of the geological sciences extended back to the early years of the science, to a time when catastrophism was the dominant view of earth history. The author's approach to his critical analysis of the Great Flood, the Atlantis legend and the science of geology is based solely on the evidence and underpinned by the laws of physics, and, using much scientific evidence and those same laws of physics, the author seeks to demonstrate that the geological history of this world may very well be quite different to what orthodox academic geology says it is, and lost Atlantis and the Great Flood may indeed lie not in the realm of legend, but very much in the realm of history.
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