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I watched something on the Discovery Channel once that pointed to an area around (I think) the dead sea, where they found evidence that it was once MUCH deeper, but there was a crack in the geologic dike that held back the water, and that the sea emptied in a massive "dam breaking". According to their studies, it would have had a massive impact on the entire region, which just so happens to be the part of the world that all of these tales come from.
If i can find moreinfo, i will post it. it was a very interesting parallel between the a "Bible story" and an actual event.
It also goes a long way to show how things can get blown up in the telling. But then again, if to you, the middle east is the world, and it gets flooded, then technically, the world was flooded.
If china was unaffected, it wouldnt matter, because you didnt even know it existed.
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