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Is there evidence of a world wide flood?
Multiple converging lines of evidence — geological, mythological, archaeoastronomical, and oceanographic — point to catastrophic flood events at the end of the last Ice Age, roughly 12,900 to 9,600 BCE. Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock argue these events were planetary in scale and erased an entire prior civilization. The question is not whether catastrophic floods occurred — they clearly did — but whether the institutional gatekeeping of their scale and timing serves an agenda of historical minimization.
Evidence
- Randall Carlson has spent decades cataloguing the evidence for the Younger Dryas Impact Event and the catastrophic drainage of glacial Lake Missoula, Lake Agassiz, and other proglacial lakes across North America and Eurasia.
- Martin Sweatman of the University of Edinburgh and the Comet Research Group have proposed that Göbekli Tepe's Pillar 43 encodes a sky-map recording the Younger Dryas impact event circa 10,950 BCE — a cosmological record of the catastrophe itself.
- Oceanographer Robert Ballard's Black Sea research confirmed that a vast freshwater lake was catastrophically flooded by Mediterranean saltwater around 5,600 BCE — a regional candidate for the Mesopotamian flood traditions documented by William Ryan and Walter Pitman.
- His work documents the Channeled Scablands of Washington State — 16,000 square miles of stripped bedrock carved in days, not millennia — as physical proof of floods so violent they defy uniformitarian explanation.
- Carlson correlates these flood pulses with meltwater events that raised global sea levels by hundreds of feet in geological instants.