Old Testament Historicity

Nope, I watched, but those are both about Mesopotamia. the ‘flooding’ starting at 13000 BC was due to sea level rise. There were no high mountains covered by that flood, just lowlands.

That’s addressed in the second video. The video also mentions nothing about the Indian Ocean, so I’ve on idea what you’re talking about there.

Other issues that such a late flood brings. It requires that Swamidass’s view for the image of God be true because Adam and Eve could not be the parents of all living. But such a view requires that some living people not have the image of God.

No, the video has that Adam and Eve are the MRCA of all humans today. Please rewatch it.

Mesopotamian flood ideas are accepted only by the desperate who can’t figure a way to make the bible actually be true, so we change it to say it didn’t really mean Mts. of Ararat

Your geophysics degree isn’t going to save you on that one. It’s not random people “changing” the Bible when it comes to Ararat. In reality, the video quotes professional Hebrew scholarship. There’s no reason as to why we should stick to modern mistranslations against the Hebrew subtext.

Before you try to debate with a geoscientist, take some time to look at some geological information about how much trouble it would be to have the Nile flow into the Persian Gulf–btw, there is no evidence of that. And, Kush was NOT in Saudi Arabia no matter how much people try to make it be that way.

I have no idea what you’re talking about, but the video refers to an actual sudden deluge that occupied a good part of the ancient near east between 13,000 and 8,500 years ago.

You claim that this video is changing or denying anything the Bible says, which of course it doesn’t, but if anything, it looks like your theory kind of does. Humans have only been around for a couple hundred thousand years, but you claim that the flood really happened 5.3mya. Really? Noah lived 5.3mya? The hominids that lived 5.3mya were constructing arks? Just look at Gen. 7:14, it has God telling Noah to bring livestock onto the ark. Call me crazy, but I don’t think farming existed 5.3mya. Just look at Gen 8:20, it has God telling Noah to offer burnt sacrifices on an altar. Were altars being constructed 5.3mya? Forget about the altars, what about the burnt sacrifices? I’m pretty sure that hominids harnessed fire no sooner than 1mya.