In the Book of Genesis the new theory about the source of the great flood is detailed according from an article in JP.  This comes amid a continuing controversy among scholars over the thoughts of the inundation of the Black Sea was the biblical flood more than seven millennium's. 

British marine archeologist Dr. Sean Kingsley posited the theory and published in the Bulletin of the Anglo-Israeli Archaeological Society of the drowning of the Carmel Mountains villages.  This includes temples, graves, houses, workshops, water well, and stone tools and by far “the most compelling” archeological evidence exposed for Noah’s flood to this day.

Kingsley said in a telephone interview with The Jerusalem Post, “What’s more convincing scientifically, a flood in the Black Sea, so far away from Israel and the fantasy of a supposed ark marooned on the slopes of Mount Ararat, or six submerged Neolithic villages smack-bank in the middle of the Bible Land.”  The site, was excavated by Israeli archeologist Dr. Ehud Galili over the last quarter century which offers a “pretty convincing cocktail of coincidences,” layers of villages submerged in a critical location with one known for its nautical revolution. 

Galili rejected Kingsley’s theory stated this could not be true, “based on our archeological finds, the village was not abandoned due to a catastrophic event, but due to the slow rise of sea levels which occurred all over the world.”  “The pace of the increase in the sea level was very slow, so that it would not be significant enough for people to remember it in the course of their lifetime.” Following the major tsunami that hit Asia there was a scientific trend in the world to hunt for mega disasters that happened in the past according to Galili.  “We did not find any proofs which indicate that a tsunami or other such catastrophe flooded the villages, even though there are proofs that a tsunami did occur in the Mediterranean Sea.” A self declared atheist, Kingsley said he began studying the origin of Noah’s flood five years ago as a result of his interest into “how mythologies came into existence,” and as a desire to connect with the biblical story with global warming.  The source of the biblical flood is called into question by facts that no villages, houses, cemeteries, or graves ever have been found under its waves.  This being the alternate theory that the Black Sea was inundated around 5,600 BCE.

There is an agreement among scholars that the Black Sea flooded when rising world sea levels caused the Mediterranean to burst over land causing the freshwater lake into a saltwater sea.  This was such a monstrous flood that it raised the water levels by 155 meters submerging to 150,000 square kilometers of land. 

Scholars do disagree on when the flood actually occurred and how rapidly but for the most part they believe it was a gradual flooding that happened around 9,000 years ago.  The Carmel Coast massive flood date Kingsley suggests took place between the sixth and fifth millennia BCE, but it is another unknown fact. Kingsley said, “the precise timing of this localized flooding is still being worked out, but there is no doubt that the villages of the Carmel were lost not to earthquakes or tectonic movements but to killer waves.”

 Atlit-Yam located ten meters south of Haifa is known as the largest submerged Neolithic village in the Mediterranean Sea.  Opposite the Carmel Mountains, the lost villages cluster in depth of twelve meters.

Professor Shimon Gibson, archeologist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte said, “whether or not one can make a direct link between the biblical story and the submerged Neolithic sites is doubtful.”  “But it does show that episodes of substantial flooding did occur in these parts of the world and that that kind of fear would have existed within the cultural conscientiousness of ancient peoples.”  “The bottom line, “ he concluded, “is that overall evidence of world submerged in flood does not exist.”

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