God asked Noah to build an ark out of gopher wood and taught Noah the specifications and structure of the ship. After that, Noah urged the world to repent while rushing to build the ark.
It took Noah 120 years to finally build a huge ark, and listened to God's words, moved his family of eight out, and all kinds of birds and animals entered the ark in pairs in an orderly way.
Seven days later, the flood fell from the sky and lasted for 40 days and nights. All people, animals and plants fell into a bottomless disaster. Except for the Noah family, the descendants of Adam and Eve were swallowed up by the flood, and even the highest mountain in the world was 7 meters below the water surface.
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A study confirmed that the melting of the huge ice sheet in the North Atlantic more than 8,000 years ago led to a sharp rise in sea level. Scientists pointed out that this incident may be the origin of the story of Noah's ark saving mankind recorded in the Bible.
The study pointed out that the rising sea level caused the Black Sea, which was still a freshwater lake at that time, to be flooded by salt water, which led to the increase of seawater in the Black Sea and became salty about 8,200 years ago.
The Neolithic agricultural population living along the Black Sea coast was the most affected, and they could not continue farming. At its worst, the flood flooded 72,700 square kilometers of land, which lasted for about 34 years. The same phenomenon also appeared in the Mediterranean coast, and about 1 120 square kilometers of land was flooded.
All this caused 6.5438+0.45 million farmers to move westward in search of more suitable cultivated land. Their arrival accelerated local social changes and promoted lifestyle changes, which is probably the process of early agriculture spreading to other parts of Europe.
Chris Turney, a British professor who led the research team, pointed out that this incident was passed down from generation to generation, leaving people with the impression that there was a big flood around the world, which is also the origin of Noah's Ark story.
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