Re: The Bible - Pure Bollocks?

icycalmca@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

prabbit1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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Evidence is that there may have been a local flooding of the Black Sea (see
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea) and the tales may have been
exaggerated in the re-telling.
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<snip refuation of the possible Black Sea flood>

Not going to disagree with what I snipped; you may very well be correct on
that.

Better candidates are widespread inundation of low-lying
parts of the Persian Gulf associated with the final draining
of Glacial Lake Agassiz, and similar flooding of the Tigris-
Euphrates delta, and (most likely) simultaneous flooding of
the Tigris and Euphrates, which would have looked like a
flooding of the entire world from the viewpoint of a person
near present-day Baghdad. These candidates could each or all
have inspired the flood myth in the epic of Gilgamesh, which
predates the first known appearance of the Noachian Flood myth.

And these do still support my main point in that there may have been some
local flood of some sort that was exaggerated in the re-telling. It may not
have been the Black Sea but any other flood could have worked as well.

--
Mike

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