re: Real climate cataclysm: Scientists Can No Longer Ignore Ancient Flooding Tales (Netflix)

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The Burckle Crater impact is speculated to be Noah's flood...

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First time I've heard that. Sounds like a stretch.

What isn't a stretch is various unrelated cultures from aboriginal Americans to Asians to Persians all with flood stories. All emanating from the same timeframe. That timeframe included massive inland lakes formed from glacial melt. They were held in place by ice dams or tenuous terrain. These were eventually overtopped, and gave way. The result was massive rapid flooding on an unimaginable scale.

E.g., Over nine months, Lake Agassiz released a volume of water equivalent to that of the Great Lakes. Such torrent releases formed many of the world's great canyons, and almost certainly account for the Noah story as well.