Mega-flood filled the Mediterranean in months
Lincoln Cannon
10 December 2009 (updated 25 May 2025)
Despite the clamor of Bible literalists, there is not objective evidence that a worldwide flood occurred a few thousand years ago, as suggested by some popular interpretations of the Noah story. On the other hand, megafloods occurred a few million years ago. Perhaps floods like them impressed our early ancestors sufficiently to result in ritual narratives that persisted in varying oral forms up to the time that the narratives were adapted into the various creation stories we now find in ancient texts, both in the Bible and elsewhere.
