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GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
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I'm sorry that no one taught you properly about the account. What do you think about the account?
I wasn't "taught" anything other than read it for yourself.
I'm sorry that no one taught you properly about the account. What do you think about the account?
@GodSpeed63 World flood stories have been popular in many ancient cultures. Jews, Sumerians, Mesoamericans. But the logistics alone of the biblical flood are untenable. Says nothing about what the carnivores ate. The distance the animals would have to travel over separated continents. The relative small size of the ship holding 10 billion species and their food. Not to mention the sheer amount of fecal matter would have overwhelmed everything in a few days. The only way it could have all been done is goddidit.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@canusernamebemyusername Very true - and also there is nothing like the amount of water available on the planet for a Biblical- or Waterworlds - volume inundation.
My guess is that like other OT myths, the story probably emerged from oral, local folk-tales; in this case about some particularly large but regional flood possibly many generations before the Hebrews wrote it down for their own purposes.
Where might have such flooding occurred, in the Middle East? Hard to know but two candidates would be the Nile Delta and the Tigris / Euphrates marshes.
(The latter gained its own Arab population, which I think Saddam Hussein tried to drive out - their life was described by Gavin Maxwell in his book A Reed Shaken By The Wind.)
I have seen suggestions that it refers to the post-glaciation se-level-rise entering the Mediterranean, but that is far too early, by some 7000 years. Also, even if the last glacial maximum took the Atlantic surfaces below the Straits of Gibraltar floor, the Sea would have been there, as a very deep, rather saline lake thanks to the many major rivers that enter the Caspian, Black and Mediterranean Seas.
So I think it was just a legend arising from much older but purely-regional events.
NB: Regarding the OT stories as myths, does not mean you cannot still believe in God. The Hebrews just made the legends fit their religion!
My guess is that like other OT myths, the story probably emerged from oral, local folk-tales; in this case about some particularly large but regional flood possibly many generations before the Hebrews wrote it down for their own purposes.
Where might have such flooding occurred, in the Middle East? Hard to know but two candidates would be the Nile Delta and the Tigris / Euphrates marshes.
(The latter gained its own Arab population, which I think Saddam Hussein tried to drive out - their life was described by Gavin Maxwell in his book A Reed Shaken By The Wind.)
I have seen suggestions that it refers to the post-glaciation se-level-rise entering the Mediterranean, but that is far too early, by some 7000 years. Also, even if the last glacial maximum took the Atlantic surfaces below the Straits of Gibraltar floor, the Sea would have been there, as a very deep, rather saline lake thanks to the many major rivers that enter the Caspian, Black and Mediterranean Seas.
So I think it was just a legend arising from much older but purely-regional events.
NB: Regarding the OT stories as myths, does not mean you cannot still believe in God. The Hebrews just made the legends fit their religion!