I am interested to know what it was that they found on that mountain in Turkey. Clearly not a boat dumped by a flood: there's not enough water in the world.
well, I like your explanation a lot more than the biblical one. Although it does seem a little convenient. Why do we have to explain it at all though? I'm sure a lot of those stories were just made up to coerce people into doing what the writers wanted them too.
Sodom, Gommorah, and neighboring cities were wiped out by a large asteroid air burst.