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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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Subject: Re: Creation, Evolution, and Flood
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Sorry, I don't see how the explosion of Thera
could have caused the 'Biblical' flood.  The
flood story we have in Genesis is almost certainly
copied from the same source as the one in the
Epic of Gilgamesh.  Now Thera blew her top around
1450 BC.  And, although the version you usually
find is the Akkadian translation (ca 800 BC) the
original story was almost certainly Sumerian,
and probably dates to before 2000BC.  So the
story came first.

Incidentally, I believe the current date for the
end of the Minoan II period is well after 1450BC,
so thera wasn't responsible for the destruction
of Knossos either.