this is how i think it happened.
13,000 years ago there was a huge ice sheet 2mi thick covered most of the northen hemisphere.
at this time the worlds oceans were an estemated 400 - 500 feet lower then now.(it was like that for 100,000 yrs.)
also at this time the persin gulf was completely dried up.(this was the valley that overflowed) .
this ice sheet only took they say 150-200 yrs. to melt. a blink of an eye in time. as the oceans rose the water passed over the strates of hermoze(forgive spelling) thus flooding the valley( the garden of eden)
a researcher has used satilites and found the two lost river beds( of the pishon and the gihon) that flowed from iran on one side of the gulf and the other flowed from arabia on the other side. and they would have met with euphrates and tigris rivers under what is now the gulf.
also we are now finding that all around the world there are masive buildings and piramids that are so deep under water that they could have only been built when the oceans were at the low point mentioned above. ( this would be the race of man that was distroyed)
thus cities didn't " sink ". the water rose. the russians say thay have found a huge undewater city complex in the atlantic but will not tell where it is.
so how do you relate this happening to later people?? how could they understand what took place??
well a few years ago archeologists found a tablet( dates 6000 bce) by the old city of ure( spelling). on this tablet it told a story.
a story of a buisness man who owned a bardge and carried goods up and down the river. well all at once a deludge came flowing down the river flooding all the area. like a great sunami it wash all who along the river away devistating the land.
well this man and his family gained safty from this on their bardge. surived the deludge got washed into the persan gulf where they drifted for seven days or so they landed on an isiand ( bahrane they think). he returned a hero for the feat but under sumarien law he was lible for the cargo left on shore that was lost.
unable to pay he was benished for some time till he was able to return.
the name of the man on the tablet was NOAH.
SO AS ADAMS ( GODS FIRST PROPHET) LIFE RETELLS THE CREATION THAT HAPPEN BEFORE HIM SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND IT .
SO THE STORY OF NOAH AND HIS EXPREAENCE IS USED TO RELATE THAT RISING OF THE OCEANS AND THE END OF THE EARLER RACE MAN .SO ALSO WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT TOOK PLACE.
AND ABOUT THE GARDEN OF EDEN .
IT'S BEEN WRITEN THAT THE TREE OF LIFE LIES IN THE " ENDLESS SEA". AND GROWS IN THE "SEA OF ETERNITY" AND STANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE "ETERNAL SEA"
Edited by Nazarene - 20 September 2008 at 9:23pm