TWRoO on 04 October 2010
I haven't read much of the thread, but the Black sea for example was created (flooded) relatively recently (ie during human civilisation) along with a number of other great floods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(prehistoric)
a few thousand years ago of course "The Whole World" to some cultures could easily be the flooding of a relatively small area (as such not really a global flood, but as far as they could concievably travel)
