In this story, though, Jupiter was angry at the evil ways of humanity and decided to flood the Earth. He had the help of Neptune to cause a storm and an earthquake with the goal of flooding everything but the summit of Parnassus, which is where Deucalion and Pyrrha came by boat and found refuge. All of these theories have similarities; They all involve a divine being flooding the Earth to exterminate something they were unhappy with, and someone surviving by means of transportation, a boat of some sort. (Flood Theories). James Perloff has studied more than 200 flood myths and notes that in 95 percent of them, a global flood occurred, and 70 percent involved a person being saved by boat (Was There Really). These similarities of myths all over the world indicate that something must have happened to catalyze these …show more content…
This means the mountains did not have nearly as high of an altitude as they do now. The flood, along with other catastrophic forces, helped push the mountains tens of thousands of feet higher, much like we see today in our mountains. Also, about half of the water now in the oceans was "once in interconnected chambers about ten miles below the Earth's surface." This means that when the Earth's crust separated, the water trapped underneath escaped and flowed out like a fountain, flooding the Earth. Scientists have proved that there is still water underneath the Earth's surface because only underground channels of water could "transmit shockwaves thousands of miles from the epicenter of the earthquake." By proving the fact that water exists under the surface, it helps to prove the validity of this theory. (Does Science Prove) The event of the great flood is believed to have happened around 5,000 B.C., which is around the same time that the biblical flood, Noah's flood, happened. So there could be some connections, and the flood in the bible could possibly be the great flood in history. With this flood, about 150,000 square kilometers of land went under water. (Biblical