The Great FloodDid the Great Flood really happen? Was it all just a big made up story? Or the Bible was telling the truth. Evidence from around the world has underlined the fact that the flood happened. The city of Ur was destroyed by a flood. All the different stories of the flood world save a family. Abraham could have brought with him the story of the flood of Ur. Flood theories do not contradict the Bible. Even the Black Sea was not always a body of water. Although the Great Flood was thought to be a myth, scientists may have found evidence of the flood's existence because scientists may have found the boat, they found homes under the Black Sea, and many cultures have variations of the flood. Noah was a righteous man among the unrighteous. When God saw evil in the world he told Noah to build an ark and save himself, his family, two for every animal, and everyone who believed, but no one did. Although it took many years to build, the people saw Noah as a crazy man and could not be saved because they did not believe. They were warned, but only mocked and so they perished in the flood. It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. When it was all over, God placed a rainbow in the sky as a sign that God would never flood the Earth again. The question is: where was the ark? For a long time, biblical scholars tried to prove that there was an earth-wide flood, while scientists simply ignored the biblical story. But more recently, scientists and the Bible have come closer to agreement. Many geologists and archaeologists now think that the story of the flood refers to a real geological event. Meanwhile anthropologists point out that similar stories of a disastrous flood are found in cultures throughout the Middle East and Europe… middle of paper… under the Black Sea, and many cultures have variations of the flood. Works Cited The English Standard Version of the Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments with apocrypha. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. Print.By, Ker. "Noah's Ark Found in Türkiye?" National geographic. National Geographic Society, April 28, 2010. Web. January 20, 2014. Mitchell, Stephen, ed. Gilgamesh: a new English version. New York: Free Press, 2004. Bennett-Smith, Meredith. "Evidence suggests that Noah's Ark existed, says Robert Ballard, the archaeologist who found the Titanic." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, December 10, 2012. Web. January 22, 2014. Isaak, Mark. “Flood Stories from Around the World.” Flood stories from around the world. Np, nd Web. January 23, 2014.Trimarchi, Maria. “Was there really a great flood?” How things work. HowStuffWorks.com, July 14, 2008. Web. January 23. 2014