I do not know where you cant put this thread.
First of all, this is not about proof for or against a flood.
The question to answer is this one: Is belief in God or the Bible necessary to believe of a past recent massive flooding event ?
What got me thinking is this: even if you do not believe in the innerancy of the Bible, you still have to consider that before it was a religious book, it was a historical manuscript, and that it talks about a major flooding-water event in the recent past. You also have to consider that other cultures around the world talk about a similar event, such as the gilgamesh epic (no matter which one came first).
Now this is the thing. Is it possible to explore the idea of a major cataclysmic water event in the past regardless to the fact that the manuscripts have become a religious book ? Or does its implication with a religion somehow put this possibility off-limits ?
This idea first came to me when reports started coming out a couple of years ago that such a major (almost planetwide) event may had happened on Mars. But it seems that this possibility is somehow unacceptable in the case of the earth. But if a major water cataclism could happen on Mars through naturalistic phenomenons, couldn't similar phenomenons have happened on earth and led to a similar result here ? And that the people of the time had interpreted it as a punishment from some sort of god and recorded it down as such, when in reality it had a naturalistic explanation ?
Once again, I do not want piles of evidence for or against such an event, just discuss if you can believe in naturalism and still accept the idea of such an event as possible. It obviously doesn't have to be worldwide lol, since people could have exagerated such an event to the extent it was worldwide.
(I want to specify that personnally, I believe that there was such an event in the past that do link all the different accounts of it in cultures around the world)
Edited by slevesque, : No reason given.