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"The" flood?
Given that cultures tend to last quite a long time, isn't it likely that at some point in their history each would come across a devestating flood? No indictation of a date, therefore no indiciation that there was a "The Flood".
Further more, why is it that only one of these cultures talk about an animal lover and his big wooden boat?
As for trying to rationalise the possibility of a flood...don't bother. If we are to accept what we are told in the bible, that the enitre earth was covered in water (10,000-20,000 feet of water = approx half a billion cubic feet of liquid) after it rained for 40 days and 40 nights (960 hours), we realise that the claim is that rain was falling at 15 feet per hour! This is certainly more than enough to sink any modern aircraft carrier...never mind a flimsy wooden ark.
Of course all of this doesn't matter. Ultimately any christian who want's to take this story as historcally accurate will simply tell you: God was in charge, so he made it happen. The ark was magically protected by a divine force-field, and if God can create the universe out of sheer will-power he can sure as FUCK create a few liters of water! (and subsequently unmake them a few weeks later).
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