Jumped Up Chimpanzee writes:
Bear in mind, though, that in ancient times people would have had no knowledge of the whole world (in fact, little knowledge of anything more than a few miles from where they lived), so what might have appeared to be a major flood to them, would have been insignificant on a global scale.
On the other hand, bear in mind that
IF indeed there was this Biblical flood, there was allegedly only 8 people, all surviving witnesses of the event.
Given that these eight were the total living post flood population of the planet, the phenomenal event would have been the most significant historically known and talked about event for many generations to come by all living cultures, all being relatively close descendents of these eight. I say relatively close, because after all,
IF it was true, we're all descendents of these eight. As the time passed and the event passed further into history, though the accuracy of the event would become distorted in various manners according to the areas and cultures, the event would still be known to some degree fairly universally. The further from the event down through the centuries and millenia, the less frequent and less accurate any information would be.
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We don't know how extensive the knowledge would have been prior to the flood, but
IF those eight experienced the event, there would have been no doubt in their minds that it was global, due to the length of time the were afloat in it.
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