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There are ample stories of a man called Noah who took the animals and his family in a boat all over the world. I don't think it was missed by the entire world.
It was missed by the Sumerians (continuous occupation and written records), Egyptians (continuous occupation and written records), the Indus river civilization (continuous occupancy until 1500 BC when driven out by Aryan invaders, and a written language (yet to be deciphered)), and the Chinese (continuous occupation and written records). I've probably missed several major examples. It is *not* confirmed outside of the Torah.
Flood myths from around the world, such as in your
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Did you not notice how utterly different and flatly contradictory they are? Generally they're set in different time periods, too. Some have multiple floods, many have the only people in the world saved being saved in their own particular region, their own deities are typically involved, etc. Unless you think that the flood was caused by Quilla, the moon, having sex with her bird sister and bearing star-children who cried into a flood that swept people east to the sea (where the sun was then born), or Makunaima and his four brothers cutting down the tree that produced all of Earth's crops and unclogging a basket that they placed to stop the water (with people surviving by climbing tall palm trees), they're utterly different.
Floods happen in people's homelands, all over the world. They think their homeland and the regions just outside it are the entire world. They write about a flood that covers the entire earth. End of story. It's just the same as with all of the "all of the kingdoms of the earth" references.
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[This message has been edited by Rei, 11-25-2003]
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