Noah's Ark Great Flood may have happened

[W.G.Ewald]

In an interview with ABC News's Christiane Amanpour, Mr Ballard explains that he investigated a theory proposed by two scientists from Columbia University that there was a massive flood in the Black Sea region. They believe that the Black Sea was once an isolated freshwater lake surrounded by farmland until it was flooded by a torrent of water.

"We went in there to look for the flood," he told ABC News. "Not just a slow moving, advancing rise of sea level, but a really big flood that then stayed ... The land that went under stayed under."

Although they did not find the Ark, they found an ancient shoreline which Mr Ballard believes is proof such an event did take place. He believes that, by using carbon dating shells found along the shoreline, it took place around 5,000 BC.

"It probably was a bad day," he said. "At some magic moment, it broke through and flooded this place violently, and a lot of real estate, 150,000 square kilometers of land, went under."

As the theory goes, the story was then passed down over the years, with the story of Noah eventually forming.

Noah's Ark Great Flood may have happened, says Robert Ballard - Telegraph

A replica of the Noah's Ark built by Johan Huibers and located in Dordrecht, the Netherlands Photo: EPA

 

[Razor]

They may have found a shoreline, but that isn't proof that somebody built an ark and stored almost all the species (which is kinda ridiculous).
Anyway, the "flood myth" is found in about a dozen different cultures, including Indian, Chinese, and certain South American cultures.
So, maybe rise and fall of sea levels might have been common at some point(s) in history and people associated that with the cleansing wrath of God(s).