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 NEWS: Are archaeological discoveries at the bottom of the Black Sea further evidence of the Noahic flood? The answer is yes!
In 2000, an expedition sponsored by the National Geographic Society using under water robotic equipment discovered evidence of a great flood.
Robert Ballard, the leader of the expedition, had previously used his under water robotic device to discover the Titanic.
The group was scanning the bottom of the Black Sea off the coast of Turkey. They were looking for evidence of human settlement. Their ship, Northern Horizon, was 12 miles out and the team was scanning 300 feet below the surface when they discovered remnants of human habitation.
Their discovery consisted of a large rectangular structure approximately 12' by 45' in length. They could see that a building had collapsed on top of the site. In the debris, they saw stone implements and carved wooden beams.
The location of the structure was evidence that thousands of years earlier, a massive flood had occurred covering this region with water. Ballard estimated that the size of the flooded area was approximately 200 square miles.
Ballad said that earlier studies in the area had uncovered fresh water creatures estimated to be 7,000 years old and shells of salt water shellfish estimated at 6,500 years of age. This substantiates his theory that at some point a massive flood covered this area and changed the Black Sea from a fresh water lake into the salt water sea it is today.
The expedition also uncovered sonar signatures suggesting there are other sites of former human settlements. At one site only a few miles away, the group found ceramics.
Ruins under Black Sea linked to Noah's Flood by Warren Leary (National Post: September 14, 2000)
Editor's note: Again dating is an issue, but this certainly confirms the Genesis account of the great flood. The Bible says water not only poured down from the sky, but "the fountains of the great deep burst open" (Genesis 7:11). These fountains dramatically changed the landscape and probably created such things as the Grand Canyon and even washed away the land bridge that linked England to mainland Europe Read: Did Biblical flood rip England asunder? These two stories are evidence that this flood was not a localized event but one that dramatically rewrote history and changed geographical formations around the world.
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