Originally Posted by Joe Mage

Not only that but the story of Noah and the Flood can be traced back ta a story that is found in the myth "The Trials of Gilgamesh" and that story is based on a story that even pre-dates the myth. A real written account of what happen ta a merchant in ancient Mesopotamia, who had gotten washed out ta sea durin' a flood. This account is very similar ta the story of the biblical flood and Noah, even though this flood had flooded only the area around Mesopotamia and didn' envelope the entire world. The account even says that the merchant even settled in the same region that the biblical Noah is supposed ta have settled. Scientists found this account written on small clay tablets found in the region where Mesopotamia had been. The History Channel had a show that covered the story of Noah and the Ark where they had covered this account and compared it ta the story of the biblical flood.

Originally Posted by Scourge

There was a global flood as said in the bible but in the bible it was greatly exaggerated. The flood was cause by the end of the little ice age, causing the sea level to rise dramatically. How ever, the flood did not completely engulf the planet and all its land masses. The interior of Africa was untouched by the flood do to the fact that Africa for the most part is one massive Plato. Now The river systems of Africa did back up and over flow their banks, but the majority of the continent was untouched, and these remains and the sediment layers were unaltered. Europe has many large mountains that are in Europe interior, where the flood did not reach or even get near. And even if it did, the remains of our ancestors and cousins were at such a high altitude that they were out of reach, once again, their sediment unaltered.