RE: Noah's flood was an actual historic event

We can estimate that the flood referred to in Genies takes place between 10,000 and 5,000 BCE. We also know that agriculture was being invented and it's practices where being adopted all around the world. Post 10,000 BCE was the beginning of the agricultural transition. Why did the whole world change their lifestyle, and how did they all end up doing it at around the same time? The last ice age had only ended around 12,000-11,000 BCE, so instead of a world half covered with ice, the climate was favorable for the cultivation of crops. It is un-debatable that civilizations that existed with isolation to each other made the discovery of agriculture, places such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, and the Americas. Each of these places being isolated also lead them to the development of their own religions, but there are two things that all of the religions have in common; the both studied the stars and the heavens, which lead most civilizations, like the Maya, to have accurate calendars, and along with the time and the calendars was the belief that humanity was in a cycle of being created and destroyed. The Sumerian story of Noah clearly demonstrates one of the phases of destruction. There is also another story of one of the creation periods; The Maya believed that they were created by the gods, but the gods had to try a few things to create humans before they were pleased, some of the things the gods tried where mud and wood, but they failed. Only until the gods furnished man of maize, where they happy with their creation (Popul Vuh). These ancient civilizations where also fascinated with the study of the stars, heavens, and their place in the universe. They could track which part of the cycle they were in by the positions of stars and constellations. With their advanced knowledge of astronomy they could figure out the future. These civilizations where the first people to discover that our solar system is in an orbit through the zodiacal belt. They also discovered that along with orbit around the sun and rotation around the axis, our Earth wobbles and at certain times, the poles will point to different stars. Along with these findings they discovered the precision of the equinox. These discoveries are all astronomical facts that determine phases of Earth, such as the ice age. At the end of the ice age, obviously, the ice melted and caused a change in sea level. This shift was not a sudden change, but more of a transition. Drastic change in sea level lead to climate changes, which could have supported development of agriculture. The melting of the ice cause worldwide floorings, maybe not all at the same time, but none the less, the ice melted and the ocean was not big enough to contain it, therefore, the only possible explanation is that it went somewhere. The continuous cycle of ice ages and global warming have been happening since the creation of Earth, only because the development of complex civilization and writing do we have proof, in the form of creation myths and religious text, that something along these line actually happened. The story of Noah's arch is only one example of a civilization that witnessed this cycle of global warming (flooding), and ice ages. Unless you can scientifically prove that weather has no correlation with astronomy in anyway, can you prove that world flooding never happened, therefor making accounts of stories like Noah's arch fictional. http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... http://www.youtube.com... http://www.criscenzo.com...