NOAH'S FLOOD

Science
Ryan and Pitman
Hiksoss and Aksu
Robert Ballard
Quickbird sattelite

Myth

Conclusion

The Creationists

There are a number of variations to the Creationist themes concerning the Great Flood spoken of in the Bible Genesis Chapter 7:,8 and references to the event in Isaiah 54:9, Matthew 24:39, Luke 17:26, 1 Peter 3:20, 2 Peter 2:5, In the Book of Mormon: Alma 10:22, Ether 13:2; and in the Pearl of Great Price: Moses 7:34,43,50, 8:17,30.

One of the more current articles from a Creationist (Literalist) Point of View is by Donald W Parry an assistant professor pf Hebrew at Brigham Young University and a translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Flood and the Tower of Babel, page 35 The Ensign January 1998.

Ron Wyatt put forward his hypothesis in Discovered: Noah's Ark .  He has made a number of claims that bear little resemblance to the known facts apart from the superficial resemblance of a geological feature (Syncline) to a ship (The Ark) in South Eastern Turkey.

David Fasold

Science

Some work is being carried out in response to some work that was carried out by William Ryan and Walter Pitman published popularly as Noah's Flood, The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed The World.

Opposition to Ryan and Pitman's theory is developing and here is a reference to Dr. Rick Hiscott and Dr. Ali Aksu's criticism of the theory dated Nov. 20, 2001: Memorial University geologists challenge Columbia University 'Biblical Flood Hypothesis' and here is the paper, Persistent Holocene Outflow from the Black Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean Contradicts Noah's Flood Hypothesis

And we have here an interview with Dr. Hiscott on CBC Radio's Program "Quirks and Quarks, June 22, 2002" You'll need an mp3 player.

Here is a more comprehensive report Nfld. geologists undermine theory which gives a response from Dr. Ryan at Columbia University dated 25 Nov 2001. For those of you as ignorant as I, Nfld is an abreviation for New Foundland in Canada.

Now the Space Program is getting involoved in the search for Noah's Ark. The high-flying and super-powerful commercial QuickBird satellite has begun snapping imagery of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey - in a quest to spot the possible remains of what is believed to be Noah's Ark.

Robert Ballard

Further developments in the Black Sea have been reported: here is one in the New York Times for October 1, 2001