false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175110099m/480122.jpg 480122 3 The Deluge of Noah has long been one of the points of tension between geology and Christianity. Scientific diluvianism--the theory that the earth's history was shaped by a universal flood--collapsed in the early 19th century, well before Charles Darwin wrote <I>The Origin of Species</I>. Since that time, scientists and historians have assumed that the flood story derived from local events in Mesopotamia.<p> In 1997, geologists Walter Pitman and William Ryan proposed the first truly novel interpretation of the flood in over 150 years. Their studies of sediments in the Black Sea convinced them that the body had been a freshwater lake until about 5600 B.C. When the rising waters of the Mediterranean broke through the Bosporus, "ten cubic miles of water poured through each day, two hundred times what flows over Niagara Falls."<p> With great intellectual daring, Pitman and Ryan have moved outside of their academic niche to suggest that this event had enormous consequences for human history. They marshal evidence from archeology, mythology, linguistics, and agriculture to describe a flood-driven diaspora of early farmers. Subsets of these people became (variously) proto-Indo-Europeans, Sumerians, Beaker People, Vincas, Tocharians--the founders of the early cultures of Europe and western Asia. <I>--Mary Ellen Curtin</I> 468521 1998 Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History total:50|5:13|4:17|3:18|2:1|1:1| 50 190 81 12 4 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 15:34:13 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 15:47:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Jan 19 09:22:30 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 09:24:25 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Aug 17 12:53:42 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 12:54:44 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Mar 27 12:34:13 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 12:41:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Jan 20 19:00:06 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 19:08:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 07 13:48:27 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 14:01:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 15 14:13:49 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 14:15:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 09 11:00:43 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 13:10:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 19 17:34:10 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 17:37:13 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Jul 19 13:47:44 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 13:47:44 -0700 2007 1 0 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jan 16 14:34:07 -0800 2008 Sun Jun 14 09:35:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 24 15:24:24 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 15:24:56 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 13:53:05 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 13:53:05 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 08 21:04:48 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 21:18:05 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Nov 02 16:44:40 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 16:44:40 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 07 18:13:43 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 18:13:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 15 18:19:40 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 18:19:40 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 05 14:20:47 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 14:20:47 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Sep 05 13:46:14 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 13:46:14 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Apr 20 11:40:17 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 11:40:17 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=480122