As to my avatar there is a solution you can use. If you use Int.Explorer you will need to turn off active-X, if you use netscape they have a more elegant solution -- you can set all animations to cycle once. There is also some "freeware" available now that will disable active-X routines and the like without the problems that Int.Exp. makes for itself.
In netscape, go to {edit button} pick {preferences ... } from the menu and then select {privacy & security} in the left window to expand it, then select {images} under it and at the bottom you can select between the 3 options for animations: the middle one is cycle once.
What I asserted was that all those different facts mean that they must have been based on different (distant) past experiences - a flood in South America gives a mesopotamian myth a basis different from the others.
And I also did not say that there was no basis for a genesis flood, just that it couldn't have been the same basis because of the differences, and that pretty well rules out the possibility that it was world wide. Follow the logic: if it was world wide and all the descriptions are true then there were lots of survivors other than those in a large wooden boat filled with ill-tempered animals - and that is just as much a problem for the biblical scenario as the lack of a world-wide flood.
Every major worldwide civilization started with agriculture, which was necessarily built on the fertile flood plains. What is the probability that they would all experience a flood sooner or later? 100%. That's what floodplains do: flood. Regularly.
... that ONE of the accounts is responsible for the official facts.
Faulty logic again: There is no need for any one of them to be factually true even though there is a high probability that there was a different actual event that formed the basis of each myth. And if I have to choose, I would choose the Norse flood of blood (they have no other flood ...). Prove me wrong.
There is also plentiful evidence of flooding in the geological record, but not of a single time when all places were flooded at once. This would also support a "many different flood" basis for all the myths.
By excluding the evidence in your mind that these are different floods you are making the logical fallacy mentioned.
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