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Article on science.com suggests evidence that a giant comet impact and associated meteor storms could have wiped out early civilizations and caused a great flood.
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SPACE.com Comets, Meteors Myth: New Evidence for Toppled Civilizations and Biblical Tales A stupor of despair went up to heaven when the god of the storm turned daylight into darkness, when he smashed the land like a cup An account of the Deluge from the Epic of Gilgamesh, circa 2200 B.C.If you...Douglas E. Cox provides an overview of evidence for a catastrophic flood. Includes discussion of the nature of the flood, with a list of some proposed flood models. Correlates worldwide legends of the deluge with the biblical account.
http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/cfdb.html
Douglas E. Cox explains as the effects of currents of the deluge, rather than the results of glaciations, postulating that their distribution patterns provide information about the way in which the flood waters retreated from the land. [Creation Research Society Quarterly, Volume 16(3): 154-162.]
http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/drumlin1.html
Problems in the conventional glacial interpretation of the drift, and drift landforms. A revision of an article originally published in the Creation Research Society Quarterly, 13(1): 25-34, June 1976, and reprinted in Corliss, William R. 1980. * Unknown Earth: A Handbook of Geological Enigmas.* The Sourcebook Project, Glen Arm, MD. p. 33-50]
http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/gtprob.html
Index of discussions on a global flood and plate tectonics, with pro and con discussion spanning several years.
http://members.aol.com/AVBibleTAB/flood/f00.htm
Over 50 articles dealing with various evidences supportive of biblical catastrophism. From the archives of the Institute for Creation Research.
http://www.icr.org/cgi-bin/searc...+ICR+Website&Terms=Catastrophism
A report written by the Institute for Creation Research that explains an example of catastrophism with the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State on May 18, 1980.
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-157.htm
John Baumgardner's work on the global Flood using catastrophic plate tectonics and evidence about the age of the earth.
http://www.globalflood.org