Flood Hypotheses

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Human Hypotheses

The archaeological discovery of ancient pre-Mosaic Chaldean stories of the Great Flood, such as the eleventh tablet of the Akkadian Gilgamesh Epic and Sumerian tablet of Nippur, has led to a search for historical explanations of such a widely held report.

Three

attempts have been presented in an effort to find a cause for the commonality of this ancient report which esentially supports the historical existence of the Genesis event without being bound by its biblical data. These are –

1.	The sudden flooding of the Persian Gulf valley;
2.	The sudden flooding of the Black Sea basin;
3.	The collapse of southern Mesopotamia's Uruk civilization.

Persian Gulf Hypothesis

The reflooding of the Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf) valley about 10,000 years ago by the rising Arabian Sea overtopping the rock ridge across the Straits of Hormuz has been suggested as an explanation.

Black Sea Hypothesis

The devastating flooding of the Black Sea basin about 7,500 years ago through the breaching of the Bosporus by the Mediterranean Sea has also been suggested.

Uruk Collapse Hypothesis

The change in the earth's climate which resulted in the collapse of the old Uruk civilization of southern Mesopotamia has also been suggested.

These

hypotheses, as interesting as they are, are not even a remotely possible explanation if the Biblical data is accepted!