A question about the great flood. Geared more for athiests but... interject at will?

Question

I am no expert on the sybject but I have noticed stories about a great flood from many different cultures. Do you think it may be possible these stories originated during our last major deglaciation? I believe that was ruffly 18000 yrs ago or so. Just a biit before the "Dawn" of civilization. It would then have become oral tradition until commited to the written word. As with most authors certain literary liberties would then be taken and *poof* flood myths?
I dunno... just a thought.

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Answer 1

Well it does makes some sense doesn't it. Obviously it wouldn't have been a world wide flood. Just a large flood. Or maybe if you take the Atlantis legends into account an island "sunk" or was flooded.

Answer 2

Just as wherever someone is always looks like the center of the universe, cataclysmic events tend to make people say, "Now I've seen everything.

Nearly everyone knows what a flood looks like, and many have experienced them. If MY world is flooded, THE world is flooded. So it's natural to extrapolate and assume that the whole world must have been flooded at some time or we wouldn't have all these versions of the "same" story. (It's actually just the same KIND of story.) Nobody wants to be excluded from a catastrophe, even if they weren't there at the time.

Answer 3

A local flood possibly. The knowledge of the extent of the earth at time would not have given them any idea that the flood they were experiencing was local and not world wide. So take the possible fact there was a local flood, mix in some oral story telling that changes from generation to generation, eloborated upon by different religious sects, and bingo you've got yourself a worldwide flood caused by a god.

Answer 4

Floods are common through out the world, especially around rivers (imagine that!) and early civilizations started around rivers. It's natural that floods would be a common theme in oral traditions.

On the other hand, there is no evidence for a world wide flood, and there is not enough water or hydrogen present on the earth to accomplish this.

Answer 5

A planet is coming and is due any time now. It comes through every 3600 years and is recorded in most ancient cultures. When it came through during Noah's time it caused a major tsunami starting at the south pole and going all the way to the north pole. It then sloshed back and forth for a while.
Whenever this planet comes through it causes major cataclysms that all but destroy mankind. One out of a thousand is all that has ever survived.
You have to look outside the bible to find accurate recordings of these events. There are records of it in north and south America, China, Europe, Egypt, Sumer and on and on.

Answer 6

We know from the archaeological record there was no global flood. The floods that are shown were much smaller and, while they might have appeared huge to those who survived, were quite minor on the grand scheme of things. One such that likely influenced the deluge stories from which Noah was derived was a large flood of the Tigris and Euphrates about 5,600 B.C.E..

Answer 7

There is an extensive record of flooding from glacial dam bursts in that era and the phenomenon has been observed in modern times. Every flood region identified has distinct borders.

Answer 8

Some, maybe, but they ones that are far apart probably grew out of separate local floods. Most civilizations grew up near rivers, so floods would be common among them.

Answer 9

I have no idea what your question actually is, but I'm from cheltenham we've had no running water for nearly 2 weeks and the houses round here have been under 4ft of water.

personally i don't find floods so great anymore.

:P

Answer 10

I agree with the answers above that imply localized flooding. I don't know why people insist that scriptures written thousands of years ago, by people with very limited understanding of natural processes, are scientific descriptions of actual events.