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The Bible describes a [[Great Flood]] occurring around 3300 B.C., or about 5300 years ago.  It involved a cataclysmic rainstorm of a magnitude never seen before or since.  For centuries atheists have denied its possibility.
 
The Bible describes a [[Great Flood]] occurring around 3300 B.C., or about 5300 years ago.  It involved a cataclysmic rainstorm of a magnitude never seen before or since.  For centuries atheists have denied its possibility.
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In 1991, an "ice mummy" was discovered: a remarkably preserved ancient body, including even the contents of his last meal, due to an extraordinary ice storm in the [[Alps]].  By scientific dating the occurrence of this massive ice storm in the mountains (and rainstorm below) was 5300 years ago.<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/icemummies/iceman.html</ref>
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In 1991, an "ice mummy" was discovered: a remarkably preserved ancient body, including even the contents of his last meal, due to an extraordinary ice storm in the [[Alps]].  By radiometric carbon dating<ref>http://www.nupecc.org/iai2001/report/B44.pdf</ref>, the scientists found that the occurrence of this massive ice storm in the mountains (and rainstorm below) was 5300 years ago.<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/icemummies/iceman.html</ref>
    
=== False Theories ===
 
=== False Theories ===
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