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(I'm sure it will shock none of you who aren't already familiar with him that he conned himself onto Rogan.)

Not to rain on Jimmy's parade, because I'm sure he's "done his research," but the Bible says that the Ark landed on the Mountains of Ararat, which is not the same thing as Mount Ararat. The connection with the mountain in Turkey didn't start until the middle ages.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wanted to say Black Sea but wasn't confident enough that I'd remembered correctly.

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Okay yeah.
For everyone else, what we're talking about is a theory that the Black Sea has a few points in history where the regions monumental earthquakes caused landslides that blocked(and maybe later cleared, or it cleared naturally) the Bosporus. When it was blocked, the sea swelled and flooded.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

However, the Black Sea deluge hypothesis, which is far from a consensus view, would have happened a couple of thousand years before civilization began in Mesopotamia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis

The believers in "this created the Ark story" will tell you that it was 2000 years of oral history. Occam's razor tells me that a civilization built between two rivers tends to experience flooding.