Let me say right off that I would be the first person to claim that the Old Testament story of "The Flood" is nothing but mythology, and this only strengthens that belief. With that out of the way,
this story about a recently discovered impact event is remarkable, and has received scant attention.
Apparently many cultures around the world have stories of a great deluge in there mythology.
Bruce Masse, an environmental archaeologist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico... analyzed 175 flood myths from around the world, and tried to relate them to known and accurately dated natural events like solar eclipses and volcanic eruptions. Among other evidence, he said, 14 flood myths specifically mention a full solar eclipse, which could have been the one that occurred in May 2807 B.C.
What really makes this astounding is that other geological researchers, using Google Earth, found characteristic features of a giant tsunami in the Indian Ocean. The features are called chevrons, enormous deposits of sediment pointing radially back to a common center. Analysis of satellite sea-surface data led to the discovery of a crater ("Burckle Crater") that seems to be about the right age, 5000 years or so.
The crater would have created a tsunami with "waves 600 feet high" and deposited "25 feet of rain globally".
