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

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The Clovis Comet is itself named after the civilization, the study of whose remains on the continent of North America, led to the comet’s discovery. These archaeological finds, and others besides, raise the same question. Might it be that between 12,900 and 11,600 years ago the human race had to bounce back after a cataclysm so world-changing that it nearly wiped us off the planet? What would the memory be of human beings living on the fringe of that catastrophe?

Post freezing, fire and flood, famine and re-freezing, what help would those refugee survivors have needed in order to rebuild their lives? First and foremost, for any kind of normalcy to return, the dark canopy of dust and soot and ash shrouding the light of the sun would need to be cleared. The flood waters would need to be defended against and habitable land reclaimed. The land would need to be rehabilitated for life on the surface, for the cultivation of crops and the husbandry of livestock.

As The Powerful Ones went about these tasks, the surviving human population on these isolated pockets of land would see first the sun, then the moon, and then the stars. Next would be the re-emergence of useful land, then vegetation and animal life. In short, the emergence of the world as we know it would be remembered much as the story goes in the first chapter of Genesis. Furthermore, a significant clue remains in the Genesis texts as we have them today, that suggest what we are reading is actually the account of a recovery of the planet and a recovery of life. Within our conventional reading this clue would give the appearance of another anomaly. However, once we reframe the story and read our creation texts through the lens of a global relaunch, suddenly this verse makes perfect sense.

The clue in question in the story of Genesis 1 is that before any of the work of “creation” has begun the Earth already exists – covered in water and shrouded in darkness. How can the Earth exist – and water – and even darkness – before light, before the sun or stars? How can there already be an Earth, already covered in ocean, before the first word of creation has been spoken? The Hebrew words describing the state of the planet – tohu wa bohu – imply a chaotic, empty wasteland. Is it possible that the text is showing us Earth post-cataclysm, flooded and shrouded in dust and soot – just as in the ELE (extinction level event) that wiped out the dinosaurs? The picture painted by Genesis 1 matches exactly what we would expect to see if a superior species landed on the planet to help the human species bounce back after a global catastrophe. The primordial step would have to be the separation of salt waters from fresh waters for drinking and agriculture, along with the clearing of the atmosphere to allow the sun to drive all the natural forces that fuel life on Earth. Step two would need to rehabilitate tracts of land for habitation and cultivation. Step three would have to be the replenishing of animal and human species. In short, the recovery sequence would be remembered in exactly the way that Genesis outlines

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The Beginning 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. 6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. 14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. 24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” 29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

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