The great flood is actually something that likely happened in some capacity.
Large regional floods are common to civilizations in and around big bodies of water. There is no archeological evidence to suggest one big global flood, but plenty of historical accounts of large flooding events that deluged the major population centers of nation states. We even have a few cities submerged within the Mediterranean and off the coast of East Asia and the Caribbean.
As a once-in-a-century event that has enormous implications on the lives and livelihoods of large populations, is it really that crazy to believe they’d develop a shared mythology around the event? We have all sorts of shared myths about thunder storms and constellation patterns and growing seasons and wars. Why not floods?
I’m not. It’s why I kept it in the quote. A great flood happening in some capacity sounds like you’re saying a global flood happened in some capacity. Massive regional floods giving people the impression the whole world is flooded is a little different. It’s all semantics though, really. If you say that’s what you meant then I accept I was just trying to clarify the confusion people are having.
It’s really not that different to the people being flooded. Water as far as the eye can see, leaving destruction in it’s wake, possibly completely chainging the terrain forever, destroying their entire world.
This would have been before the idea of a globe was even popular, let alone common knowledge.
Large regional floods are common to civilizations in and around big bodies of water. There is no archeological evidence to suggest one big global flood, but plenty of historical accounts of large flooding events that deluged the major population centers of nation states. We even have a few cities submerged within the Mediterranean and off the coast of East Asia and the Caribbean.
As a once-in-a-century event that has enormous implications on the lives and livelihoods of large populations, is it really that crazy to believe they’d develop a shared mythology around the event? We have all sorts of shared myths about thunder storms and constellation patterns and growing seasons and wars. Why not floods?
To them, a regional flood was their whole world flooding.
I never said global flood. You’re actually agreeing with my points.
Is a global flood not what people mean when they say the great flood?
You’re ignoring the “in some capacity” part.
I’m not. It’s why I kept it in the quote. A great flood happening in some capacity sounds like you’re saying a global flood happened in some capacity. Massive regional floods giving people the impression the whole world is flooded is a little different. It’s all semantics though, really. If you say that’s what you meant then I accept I was just trying to clarify the confusion people are having.
It’s really not that different to the people being flooded. Water as far as the eye can see, leaving destruction in it’s wake, possibly completely chainging the terrain forever, destroying their entire world.
This would have been before the idea of a globe was even popular, let alone common knowledge.