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Originally Posted by Val_1
1. People tell stories about things around them.
2. Many stories are embellished (myths)
3. Floods are common in many parts of the world.
That's how I see it, anyway. I don't see any reason, unless there's legitimate scientific evidence, to even suspect a world wide flood.
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It is hardly surprising that flood myths are so common when manki...oops! how terribly un-PC of me!..better make that
entitykind, tended to settle where there was plenty of water for his/her moonshine stills. For instance, around river mouths where it is prone to flash flooding and tsunami's. (Bible example: that notorious town drunk, Noah, set up his copper as soon as he got ashore and managed to get that maggotted that his son Ham apparently porked him)
As a matter of fact, there are cannibalstic Christians in Borneo, who still believe to this day, that the our Jewish "God" sends floods to punish them.
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"Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?" --Robert G. Ingersoll
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