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Hypothesis for a Bronze Age Global Flood

Copyright 2014 David B. Robbins

From Baxter, “The Days of Noah”

“Look out, Noah!”


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Noah (TV-Mini-Series )1999 “Noah,” 2014

“Media” interpretations…


“Noah”, 2014

Calculate the volume and pressure in this aquifer!


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“Noah”, 2014


“Happiness is...”

“Just chillin’...” Copyright 2014 David B. Robbins

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Apply science to better understand God and the Bible

Support a true understanding of Biblical reality to share the Gospel and build faith

Help remove barriers to faith by showing there is no conflict between what the Bible says and science

Improve respect for science and encourage the church to grow in a unified expression


Fenambosy Chevron, Madagascar 600 ft high; 3 miles inland


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Discovered in 2006, 1,500 km (930 miles), SE of Madagascar

Diameter = 29 +/- 1 km (18 miles)

Ocean depth = 3,800 m (12,500 ft)

Mineralogical impact evidence

Estimated as less than 6,000 years old


• Settled by non-Semitic Ubaidians (5500–4000 BC)

• Very flat cross-section across 300 km (240 mi)

• Oman forms the southern coast of Persian Gulf

Ancient Sumer Sites


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• Extends N-S ~1 km.

• Mound + skirt ~120 hectares

• 35 ha > 3 m • Max elev 9 m

Fig 1. Jamdat Nasr to Early Dynastic 1

Fig 2. Early Dynastic II-IIIa

Possible earlier Uruk level, 4000-3100 BC Adams) Copyright 2014 David B. Robbins

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Photo Source of Fara Excavations: Erich Schmidt. “Excavations at Fara,” 1931.


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Plots DE 38 and 39, Fara (Schmidt’s 1930 expedition)



Schmidt, 1931 Strata I Description: Martin, 1988

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Penn Pot 1, Polychrome. (Top of deposit, Level 7) Incomplete. Not part of abandoned group.

Penn Pot 6 (Living Surface, Level 7) Representative of pots found lying on floor mostly from NW and central portion of excavated area)



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Sumerian King List and Instructions of Shuruppak ◦ Ubara-Tutu last king of Sumer before the deluge, son of

Enmunderana Ubaratutu. ◦ Flood after kingship taken to “Shuruppag.” Moved to

Kish. ◦ Last dynasty that ruled before the Great Flood.

Sumerian flood epic–single fragment – Ziusudra ◦ Ony Ziusudra survives deluge (Son of last king.) ◦ Ziusudra commanded by protecting god to build an ark.

He rides out the disaster and afterwards re-creates man and living things upon the earth. Gains eternal life.

Sumerian flood legend heros-“Noah” equivalents ◦ Akkadian Atrahasis ("extremely wise") ◦ Utnapishtim in Gilgamesh ("he found life")

Biblical Noah ("rest") - Son of Lamech


Singular “Great Flood” Event

A single major cataclysm as primary motif leading to deaths of most of cultural group and leading to new creations of humanity

Environmental aspects identified: source/nature of flood waters (rain, tsunami), nature of storm, earthquakes, direction of flood storm, duration, light/darkness, means of survival, % of deaths, advanced warning, flood-dating indicators, description of supernatural creatures


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David Jewitt, http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/interior.html

Multi-component nucleus might account for distributed, world-wide impacts.


http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/interior.html

http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/interior.html

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Comet impact slightly larger than 5 km diameter

51 km/s (long period objects are faster than meteors), impact angle of 45o yields modeled crater fitting Burckle. Impact energy of 2 x 107 MT.*

Rocky debris ejected 9,000 km from impact site.

For perspective 1x 108 is enough energy to power the whole Earth for several centuries and is the energy theorized as released by the impact event leading to the demise of the dinosaurs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent



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Impacts from a multi-nucleic comet, including one forming Burckle Crater some 900 miles southeast of Madagascar, resulted in globally impacting cyclonic storms, fires, tsunamis, and massive local flooding associated with a very high mortality rate. The event occurred between 2900 – 2800 BC and is connected with the Biblical Noah who resided in ancient Shuruppak (modern-day Tell Fara, Iraq). The event left demonstrable physical effects and an archaeological record and is responsible for the “Great Flood” myths pervasive in many cultures and ancient Sumerian writings.

Hypothesis largely originated by W. Bruce Masse and the Holocene Impact Working Group. (For example, refer to Scott Carney, “Did a Comet Cause the Great Flood?” Discover, November 2007


Radiometric dating of Burckle Crater impact

Identification of comet impact signature evidence in cores and sediments

Modeling of comet impact effects; cyclonic storm modeling

Identification of possible related impact sites

Characterization and modeling of Mesopotamian, Bronze Age flood sediments and directions of transport; continuity of Fara flood layer

Archaeological, historical, cultural, and linguistic evidence for cultural decline or disruption and re-emergence affecting Bronze Age civilizations, locally and globally around 3,000 BC

Paleoclimatic events clustered around 3000 BC and relationship to hypothesis (“unclear,” Meehan)

Development of Biblical texts and other religious

Genetic and population studies: 1) related to “Noah” and 2) related to “post-flood” dispersion

More… Copyright 2014 David B. Robbins

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Woolley, C,. Leonard, “The Early Periods” (Ur Excavations, Vol. IV), 1956.

Mallowan, Max, “Noah’s Flood Reconsidered,” Iraq, Vol. XXVI, 1964, pp. 62-83.

Kramer, Samuel Noah ,The Sumerians, University of Chicago Press, 1963.

Kramer, Samuel Noah “Reflections on the Mesopotamian Flood: The Cuniform Data New and Old,” Expedition, Summer 1967, pgs 12-18.

Al Qadishiya Governorate 086. Tell Fara (Ancient Shuruppak) http://www.cemml.colostate.edu/cultural/09476/iraq05-086.html

Babylonian tablet shows how Noah's ark could have been constructed.” http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jan/24/babylonian-tablet-noah-ark-constructed-british-museum – refers to Irving Finkel, British Museum.

Irving Finkel, The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood, 2014. https://www.hodder.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781444757071


Masse, W. Bruce, “The Archaeology and Anthropology of Quaternary Period Cosmic Impact,” in Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society, Brobrowski and Rickman (eds.), 2007.

Masse, W. Bruce, “Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: The Archaeology of Bronze Age Cosmic Catastrophes,” in Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations,” Peiser, Palmer and Bailey (eds.), 1998

Masse, Bruce, Barber, Piccardi, and Barber, “Exploring the nature of myth and its role in science,” in Myth and Geology, Spec. Pub. 273, Geological Society of London, 2007.

Wilson, Ian, Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How it Changed the Course of Civilization, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2001.

Willam, Ryan and Walter Pitman, Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History, Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Murphy, Richard T.A., Background to the Bible: An Introduction to Scripture Study, Servant Books, 1978

Martin, Harriet P. , "Fara: A Reconstruction of the Ancient Mesopotamian City of Shuruppak," 1988.


http://www.cemml.colostate.edu/cultural/09476/iraq05-086.html




https://www.hodder.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781444757071

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Martin, Harriet P., “Settlement Patterns at Shuruppak,” Iraq, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 24-31, 1983

Lamoureux, Denis O., Lamoureux Homepage, www.ualberta.ca/~dlamoure/

Wood, Mary Lucy, “Kramer of Sumer,” Saudi Aramco World, Aramco Services Co., Houston, TX, September/October, 1979

Baxter, Samuel C., “The Days of Noah,” The Real Truth, Restored Church of God (RCG formed from Worldwide Church of God founded by Herbert W. Armstrong )

MacDonald, David, "The Flood: Mesopotamian Archaeological Evidence," Creation/Evolution Journal, National Center for Science Education, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1988.

Schmidt, Erich. “Excavations at Fara.” The Museum Journal, University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. XXII:3-4: 193-217, 1931.

Mallowan, M.E.L. “Noah’s Flood Reconsidered,” Iraq 26 (1964) 62-82; R.L. Raikes, ibid. 28 (1966) 52-63; S.N. Kramer, Expedition 9/4 (1967) 12-18.) Univ. of Pennsylvania. XXII:3-4:193-217.


International Tsunami Expedition in Southern Madagascar, August 29 – September 13, 2006 (http://tsun.sscc.ru/proj.htm)

Blakeslee, Sandra, “Ancient Crash, Epic Wave,” The New York Times, November 6, 2006 (NY Times.com Science RSS)

Young, Davis, “History of the Collapse of ‘Flood Geology’ and a Young Earth.” Adapted from The Biblical Flood: A Case Study of th eChurch’s Response to Extrabiblical Evidence, Eerdmans, 1995.

Morton, G.R, Why the Black Sea is not the Site of Noah’s Flood, 1998. (http://home.entouch.net/dmd/bseaflod.htm)


http://www.ualberta.ca/~dlamoure/

http://tsun.sscc.ru/proj.htm

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