In ancient Greece, in the town of Delphi on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, there was a temple devoted to the god Apollo. We now know, though, that plate tectonics are responsible for lifting up rocks from the ocean floor to high elevations. And a global flood is one explanation for something like the discovery of fossil seashells on the side of a mountain, says Adrienne Mayor, a historian of ancient science at Stanford University. There’s a natural tendency for people to exaggerate their memories, to turn a bad event into a far worse one. But, Nunn says, “it may well be that Noah’s flood is a recollection of a large wave that drowned for a few weeks a particular piece of land and on that piece of land there was nowhere dry to live.” Some geologists think that the Noah story may have been influenced by a catastrophic flooding event in the Black Sea around 5,000 B.C. For one, there’s just not enough water in the Earth system to cover all the land. Science: Similar flood tales are told in many cultures, but there never was a global deluge. Noah, his family and the animals on the ark survived and repopulated the planet. God covered the Earth with water, drowning everyone and everything that once roamed the land. On God’s command, Noah built a huge boat, an ark, and filled it with two of every animal. In the well-known story told among Christians, Jews and Muslims (and in movie theaters this week), God chose to destroy the Earth with a great flood but spared one man, Noah, and his family. Here are ten ancient stories from around the world and the geology that may have influenced them: A celestial soap opera involving Pele, goddess of Kilauea, actually describes activity at the Hawaiian volcano.
0 kommentar(er)
