Though it took nearly a century for geologists to recognize the deep scores in the earth, displaced boulders, and deep ripple marks on the prairies as signs of what is today called the Missoula Flood, apparently many tribes local to the Pacific Northwest had very similar stories about floods. Writes Montgomery:
There is now compelling evidence for many gigantic ancient floods where glacial ice dams failed time and again: At the end of the last glaciation, some 10,000 years ago, giant ice-dammed lakes in Eurasia and North America repeatedly produced huge floods. In Siberia, rivers spilled over drainage divides and changed their courses. England's fate as an island was sealed by erosion from glacial floods that carved the English Channel. These were not global deluges as described in the Genesis story of Noah, but were more focused catastrophic floods taking place throughout the world. They likely inspired stories like Noah's in many cultures, passed down through generations.This is fascinating stuff, and does hint at the idea that some flood myths could be the neolithic equivalent of historical documentation. Read more of Montgomery's story at Discover to find out where you can see the evidence for these floods, and how scientists discovered them.
Since devastating floods were a fact of life on the margins of the world's great ice sheets, people in those areas probably witnessed them. Early missionaries in eastern Washington reported stories of a great flood among Yakima and Spokane tribes, who could identify locations where survivors sought refuge. An Ojibwa Indian legend from around Lake Superior tells of a great snow that fell one September at the beginning of time: A bag contained the sun's heat until a mouse nibbled a hole in it. The warmth spilled over, melting the snow and producing a flood that rose above the tops of the highest pines. Everyone drowned except for an old man who drifted about in his canoe rescuing animals. The native inhabitants of the Willamette Valley told stories of a time the valley filled with water, forcing everyone to flee up a mountain before the waters receded.
Will they ever stop spreading this crap pretending it's a new discovery? Will they ever think as to why all those glaciers started to melt instantly and globally?
Actually, they don't need to anymore.
Over 20 years ago other geologist, Prof. Tollmann, researched the subject widely, and came to a different conclusion of primal cause of the deluge.
"Alexander Tollmann's bolide, proposed by Kristan-Tollmann and Tollmann in 1994,[1] is a hypothesis presented by Austrian geologist Alexander Tollmann, suggesting that one or several bolides (asteroids or comets) struck the Earth at 7640 BCE (ยฑ200), with a much smaller one at 3150 BCE (ยฑ200). If true, this hypothesis explains early Holocene extinctions and possibly legends of the Universal Deluge.[1]
The claimed evidence for the event includes stratigraphic studies of tektites,[2][3][4] dendrochronology, and ice cores (from Camp Century, Greenland) containing hydrochloric and sulfuric acid (indicating an energetic ocean strike) as well as nitric acids (caused by extreme heating of air)."
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Alexander Tollmann & Edith Kristan-Tollmann (his wife, a micropaleontologist) published a book that covers full spectrum of evidence they were able to gather that greatly supports their "bolide hipothesis" as the primal cause of the "Noah's Deluge". The book title is: "Und die Sintflut gab es doch. Vom Mythos zur historischen Wahrheit".
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It's definitely more worth reading thanthis "startling" article by Mr. Montgomery, which explains nothing.