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Author Topic:   Commonalities Of Accounts Of A Universal Flood?
PaulK
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Message 7 of 92 (353704)
10-02-2006 5:10 PM
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10-02-2006 4:57 PM


Well there's no doubt that the Bible story is a version of the same story found in the Epic of Gilgamesh. However, floods are common enough in many places of the world, and so are boats. Without a warning it would be difficult for there to be survivors, if you use a boat - an obvious idea - it needs to be ready, Animal survival needs to be explained and what more natural than to include animals on the boat ?
Bellamy, by the way was a populariser of Hoerbiger's Welteislehre ("Universal Ice Theory") pseudoscience, so I would be very wary of trusting him as a source.

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Message 41 of 92 (353799)
10-03-2006 2:31 AM
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10-02-2006 9:19 PM


Re: Confirmation Bias
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The Bible is universal, it's "catholic," it speaks to the entire world.
That isn't true. The books of the "OT" are parochial, written by and for the Jews.

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Message 49 of 92 (353924)
10-03-2006 2:09 PM
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10-03-2006 12:57 PM


Of course it doesn't matter what people would have thought of a real localised flood. These stories are more likely fictions - experience of real floods contributed to them, but I would say that few if any of them are close enough to real events to be considered to be even a greatly distorted memory of actual events. They are myths, not legends.
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