:surprised: You mean there wasn't really a flood that covered all the land?:surprised:

I built a time machine and went back just to check. There was a flood but it was just localized, same for all the myths, just ice age meltwater and local floods. Some were even catastrophic, but that happens every now and then. No Biggie. :)

Maybe in the ancient kingdom of Lalaland that most "believers" inhabit. :rolleyes:

Reality is for people who cant handle drugs.

You wouldn't believe how relieved I am. I love you.

Hey! Were all the animals, birds, and fish, aside from the (presumably married) decent pack values Christian pairs in the Ark, that El Shaddai sadistically drowned, sinners too? :oogle:

Uh-oh! What?

You mean all this is real? N-O-O-O-o-o-o-o!! :angry:

You cant see this but I'm blushing...http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ix/0201052.gif

The flood will come again.

The prophecy hath been made.

I find it interesting that the great flood of biblical history and a flood in Hopi legend apparently happened along the same time. I've been looking for the research I had to back that up, but I can't seem to locate it right now. I wrote a paper about it in college, so those notes are in a box in a closet somewhere. Obviously it could be just coincidental that both floods happened at the same but I thought it was interesting.

I also remember reading an article that suggested that a meteor hitting the earth could cause global flooding. We have no current evidence to show that such a thing happened though.

In my previous post I found an article which describes a book written by the Tollmans. The great flood induced by an asteroid impact is expounded upon, but ridiculed by mainstreamers. This leads me to believe that its a possibility. All new theories are ridiculed, if they stand up to closer scrutiny, they may eventually be accepted.

As i suggested above, a great tsunami would be more likely. An asteroid impact wouldn't cause a flood of many days but it would make a lasting impression.

I find the tsunami argument lacking. A tsunami strong enough to get that much coverage over the world would almost certainly leave no survivors - not only because of the tsunami, but because of the other effects an asteroid impact of that strength would likely have.

Thanks.

I would argue that a tsunami need not cover the entire world as the Bible suggests. I am suggesting that a large asteroid impact would cause flooding on coastal areas. Dramatic and sudden flooding.

This would be something people would remember.

That said, an impact large enough to effect both sides of the Atlantic would have to be large enough to cause serious issues to the planet in other ways. I would suggest, as has been suggested above that flooding is a reasonably common thing and when it happens on a large scale it can be catastrophic (see Indonesia and Thailand).

Add to this the fact that many ur stories involve the world rising out of water (as I mentioned earlier) combined with the idea that water, while destructive is also cleansing.

Tons of symbolism right there. Is it any surprise that story tellers, shamen, holy men, whatever would latch on this in their legends and myths?