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Did the comet-hit
of 3136 BCE cause the Biblical flood? What are the evidences for such a claim?
Answer:
Vyāsa specifically
stated that the earth trembled, and the sea swelled, but the swelling water did
not cross the shores in Bharat (MB: 6.3.36). This gives an additional insight
that some meteors had fallen into the sea – the most probable location being
the Arabian Sea.
In this regard,
the data on Paleoclimatic Flood events furnished by Stanford.edu shows the
Biblical Flood and the flood events supported by paleoclimatic data around the
year 3136 BCE (Fig. below). The
well-established Mayan calendar date coming immediately after the Mahabharata
war at 3114 BCE offers a benchmark to compare the flood events. I marked the
Mayan date by running a blue line across it. Just before the Mayan date, the
Biblical flood, suggested by Dr. Hales appears, matching with the Comet-hit of
3136 BCE.
Dates of global floods and the flood of 3136 BCE
The foremost
inference from this Figure is that the flood at Dwārakā has no nearest origin,
by which we are made to deduce that it was a localized flood and not a global
event as the comet-hit was.
Though there is no
consensus on a scientifically supported date for the Biblical Flood, with the
archaeologically supported flood event coming around to 2950-2850 BCE in the
Mesopotamian site of Shuruppak, the Stanford data offers overwhelming support
to a global flood around 3136 BCE. Of the two dates suggested for the Biblical
flood – one by Dr. Hales and the other by Wright & Morris (Fig.13), the
former is supported by a range of paleoclimatic data. When I checked the research works on the
Biblical flood archaeology, there is an overwhelming consensus on a flood from
the Mesopotamian region that caused the Ark of Noah to be lifted and
disembarked on Mount Ararat (Biblical mount Urartu)
According to
Genesis 7:11, the flood started with two major events: (1) the fountains of the
deep burst and (2) the windows of the heaven were opened. Of these, the first
event apparently refers to explosion noises from beneath the ocean causing
eruption (fountain) of water. In the event of a major fragment of the broken
comet crashing into the Persian Gulf, the burst of water from the deep becomes
possible. The crash causing massive precipitation is recognized as the heavens
opening up. Vyāsa-s simultaneous reference to the trembling of the earth and
swelling of the oceans (MB: 6.3.36) concurs with an event of a crash in the
Persian Gulf.
The probable
location of the Biblical Flood
The Biblical month
running at that time also makes an interesting correlation with the time of
comet-fall. It was on “the seventh, on the seventeenth day of the month, the
ark came to rest on the mountains of Urartu” (Genesis: 8.4). In the Vedic
calendric months starting from Caitra / Aries (in sidereal year count starting
from Aries), the crash occurred after the seventh month.
