Kirk Kirchev

This is the concluding part of a two-part article that offers a unifying scientific hypothesis that connects diverse ancient flood myths with mainstream scientific fact. Part 1 offered scientific facts which seem to tally with the many flood stories that exist around the world. Having established the likelihood of a massive global event, it suggested the possibility that an event of this kind could be caused by a close encounter by an astronomical object. This section will consider whether the science allows this theory to be viable. Read Part 1 here. The Path of Destruction Here, I have plotted all the flood myth locations as per Graham Hancock’s research and overlaid a possible ground track (see definition below) where the

The following is a unifying scientific hypothesis that connects diverse ancient flood myths with mainstream scientific fact. Currently the biblical narrative of the great flood falls short of explaining some observable scientific facts. Here are a few examples: All freshwater fish should have died in the flood. What did the carnivores eat after they got off the ark and ate all the herbivores? Where did the immense amount of water come from to be able to cover the world’s highest mountains? And even if it happened, where did all this water recede to after the flood? [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"48094","attributes":{"alt":"The Great Flood (circa 1450). ( Public Domain )","class":"media-image","height":"600","style":"width: 477px; height: 600px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"477"}}]] The Great Flood (circa 1450). ( Public Domain ) Worldwide Flood Myths

Jose Salvador Alvarenga was fishing off the coast of Mexico in late 2012 when a powerful storm sent his boat adrift. Marshall Islanders found the battered vessel nearly 16 months later, stuck on a reef—with Alvarenga still alive inside. He had crossed almost the whole length of the Pacific Ocean. Rainwater and a diet of fish and turtle sustained him. At that latitude, the prevailing ocean currents - the powerful North Equatorial current, assisted by the westerly trade winds, could carry any stranded boatmen out and far west across the Pacific and eventually into south west Asia. Those that survive the journey, that is. Had he reached the Asian continent, Alvarenga may have come across a sight that closely resembles