(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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    The Fall of Civilizations podcast indicated that there was a period of rapid rise in sea levels around Mesopotamia, but if you have reason to disagree with the host I’ll defer. I don’t know their background beyond being a good storyteller.

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      That podcast episode (which is great) said the rise was about a 2.5cm per year (or 0.3m/day horizontally). Not that rapid.

      Minutes 23-30 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8-the-sumerians-fall-of-the-first-cities/id1449884495?i=1000454904678

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      As I understood that one, it was localized to the Black Sea or Mediterranean and based on blockages to their connecting channels to larger bodies of water. But last I heard of that was a long time ago.

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          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.

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            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.