Is the story for Noah's Ark and the Biblical flood true? An underwater archaeologist, Robert Ballard says yes. In an interview with journalist Christiane Amanpour on ABC News Ballard who is an acclaimed underwater archaeologist studied the ocean to find answers. Ballard and his team went into the Black Sea off the coast of Turkey to search for underwater artifacts from the time of Noah's Ark.
"Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube," he said to ABC News. "But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history."
Ballard said that the ice from melting glaciers became water and rushed towards the ocean which caused flooding around the world. ABC News reports that two Columbia University scientists believe that there was a flood in the Black Sea region from water rising in the Mediterranean Sea. Ballard and the team went to investigate the theory.
"We went in there to look for the flood. Not just a slow moving, advancing rise of sea level, but a really big flood that then stayed... The land that went under stayed under," said Ballard to ABC News.
Ballard found an ancient shoreline which was proof that a flooding even did occur in the Black Sea. Ballard told ABC News that he believes that it happened around 5,000 BC which was about the same time as the Noah's Ark flood in the bible.
The story of Noah's Ark goes that in the Bible, Noah saves himself, his family and all the world's animals after God decides to destroy the world with the flood because of humans evil deeds. In the bible, Noah is given detailed instructions by God to build the ark.
Karen Armstrong who is the author of "A History of God," said to ABC News, "If you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you want a scientific explanation why this has happened.But you also need to something that will help you to assuage your grief and anguish and rage. And it is here that myth helps us through that."
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