The Flood
The Flood: A Historical Reality?
Whether there was something like the Flood or not, this topic has been
discussed for centuries.
The result has been that serious scientists reject a global flood as historical
reality.
Two Austrian geologists have taken up an older hypothesis to explain a global
flood. Their names are Prof. DSc Alexander Tollmann, geologist, professor in
ordinary and President of the University Institute of Vienna on the chair of
Eduard Suess, and his wife, DSc Edith Kristan-Tollmann, geologist and
university lecturer of micro-paleontology.
Their hypothesis says that a comet hit on earth about 10 000 years ago and
caused a catastrophe well known as the Flood.
The basis of their hypothesis is the large number of floodstories all over the
world and some few (circumstantial) evidences.
Their starting point is the large number of parallels between the results of
research impacts in earthhistory (especially of the impact at the end of the
Cretaceous period 65 million years ago) and the flood records of many peoples
world-wide. Particularly the native Amercians report on stars fallen down from
the sky, but also in Northern Europe, in the Near East, Persia, India,
Australia, and on the Pacific islands, myths about such an event exist.
Most records contain descriptions of earthquakes, fire disasters, volcanism,
tidal waves or tsunamis of incredible height, darkness, winter or s sudden drop
in temperature after a while, heavy downpours or above-average snowfalls and
the extinction of most human beings and animals. All these are significant
details of an impact. Because some records say that three, seven or nine
"stars" (or "dragons" or "snakes") fell down and hit the earth, and because of
the world-wide spreading of flood traditions, the authors assume seven big or
major impacts of seven major fragments of one comet in the Oceans and some
smaller impacts world-wide. They suppose that the comet broke apart passing the
Jupiter because of its gravitation (compare to Shoemaker – Levy 9) or the
perihel (compare to comet "West"). On account of their interpretation of the
floodstories they assume impacts southeastern of Australia in the Tasmanian Sea
(or i the southwestern Pacific Ocean), in the southern Chinese Sea, in the
Indian Ocean, in the North Atlantic Ocean, in the Middle Atlantic Ocean
southern of the Azores, in the eastern Pacific Ocean before the west coast of
Middle America and in the southeastern Pacific Ocean west of Fireland. They
consider the Marasko Crater (Poland), the Koefels impact (Tyrol, Austria), the
Odessa Crater (Texas) and maybe the Merewether Crater (Labrador) as impacts of
smaller fragments; all these impacts dated back to about 10 000 years before
present.
Evidence of such a catastrophe 10 000 years ago are fields of tektites in South
Australia from Port Campbell (near to Melbourne) to Charlotte Waters and in
Vietnam. There is no evidence of the impacts in the Oceans yet. But the
knowledge of impacts in the Oceans isn't very large so far.
Another evidence of one or more big impacts 10 000 years ago is a high acidity
in ice core series. Should the acid be nitric acid, this would be an evidence
of an impact in that time.
Results of dendrochronological researchs supply evidence for a sudden rise of
carbon – 14 about 10 000 years ago, which may be reduced to an impact in that
time. (The exact date of the Flood is fixed by the authors with 7553 BC +/- a
few years.)
– Jens Grabenstein –
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