I have often wondered why God would use a global flood to destroy what would appear to be a relatively small population on Earth.
Now, regardless of whether you believe a flood ever happened or not, or what caused it, let's just assume that God did cause the flood.
How widespread was civilization at the time? Did it cover the whole Earth?
Why could God not just use a biological weapon to wipe out the population, or something else, why flood the whole Earth.
I then thought maybe he did it because he didn't want anything found of the pre-Flood civilization. Unless you're a deep sea diver, how else would you know about man made structures deep under the sea?
I visited the following website, absolutely fascinating, and it appears that strange artifacts have been popping up all over the Earth, from deep down in mine shafts, to under the sea...
http://www.nwcreation.net/antediluviancivilizations.html#artifacts
Antediluvian Artifacts
- Bell in Coal by Genesis Park
- Cretaceous Hammer by Genesis Park
- Forbidden Archaeology by Megaraptor.com
- Forbidden Archaeology (book review) by Genesis Park
- Odd Things in Wrong Places from Time Upside Down by Erich von Fange
- Oddities in the Rocks : From The Nikos File by Michaela Magi Griffiths
- Pot Found in Coal by Creation Truth Ministries
- Remains in Coal and Rock by Pathlights
- The Iron Cup in Coal by Creation Evidences Museum
Secular References / News
- Ancient Undersea Walls Discovered off Penghu Taipei Times 11/26/02
- Another Underwater City in India 10/24/02
- Atlantis Link Database
- City Under the Sea 12/01/03 - a spectacular underwater archaeological find by a joint British-Indian diving team that could rewrite history.
- Mysteries Fact or Fiction
- Mysterious finds, million-year-old Pravda.RU 9/13/02 Gold / silver alloy hair found in Antarctica ice cores.
- Northern sea baffles archaeologists - PRAVDA.Ru 3/11/04 Remains of an ancient civilization discovered in the depths of the Northern sea.
- Tamil Nadu´s Ancient Cities May Predate Mesopotamian Civilization - INDOlink - News - 1/5/03
- Underwater Temple Discovered 12/31/01
This news article is fascinating too...
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=2075
Another Underwater City in India 24-Oct-2002
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“I have long regarded Mahabalipuram, because of its flood myths and fishermen’s sightings as a very likely place in which discoveries of underwater structures could be made, and I proposed that a diving expedition should be undertaken there,” says Hancock.
In April, he made a diving expedition to the area, working with the U.K. Scientific Exploration Society and India’s National Institute of Oceanography. The SES says, “A joint expedition of 25 divers from the Scientific Exploration Society and India’s National Institute of Oceanography led by Monty Halls and accompanied by Graham Hancock, have discovered an extensive area with a series of structures that clearly show man made attributes, at a depth of (16-23 feet) offshore of Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu. The scale of the submerged ruins, covering several square miles and at distances of up to a mile from shore, ranks this as a major marine-archaeological discovery as spectacular as the ruined cities submerged off Alexandria in Egypt.”
The NIO says, “A team of underwater archaeologists from National Institute of Oceanography NIO have successfully unearthed evidence of submerged structures off Mahabalipuram and established first-ever proof of the popular belief that the Shore temple of Mahabalipuram is the remnant of series of total seven of such temples built that have been submerged in succession. The discovery was made during a joint underwater exploration with the Scientific Exploration Society, U.K.”
These investigations reveal stone masonry, remains of walls, scattered square and rectangular stone blocks, and a large platform with steps leading up to it. Most of the structures are badly damaged and scattered in a vast area, with barnacles and mussels growing on them. There are two locations, and the construction design and area is about the same at each. One possible date for the ruins may be 1500- 1200 BC. The Pallava dynasty, which ruled the area during this time, constructed many similar temples.
Durham University geologist Glenn Milne thinks the underwater construction was built closer to 4,000 BC. He says, “…It is probably reasonable to assume that there has been very little vertical tectonic motion in this region during the past five thousand years or so. Therefore, the dominant process driving sea-level change will have been due to the melting of the Late Pleistocene ice sheets. Looking at predictions from a computer model of this process suggests that the area where the structures exist would have been submerged around six thousand years ago. Of course, there is some uncertainty in the model predictions and so there is a flexibility of roughly plus or minus one thousand years is this date.”
Archeologists believe there was no culture in India 6,000 years ago capable of building anything that grand. Could such a culture have been lost during the Great Flood, which is legendary in many different cultures, all over the world. Hancock says, “I have argued for many years that the world’s flood myths deserve to be taken seriously, a view that most Western academics reject. But here in Mahabalipuram, we have proved the myths right and the academics wrong.
“Between 17,000 years ago and 7000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, terrible things happened to the world our ancestors lived in,” Hancock says. “Great ice caps over northern Europe and north America melted down, huge floods ripped across the earth, sea-level rose by more than (325 feet), and about (15 million square miles) of formerly habitable lands were swallowed up by the waves.”