gungasnake wrote:El-Diablo wrote:
It's called an archetypical theme.
Not really; it's called people all over the world having seen the same thing and gone through the same experience.
As we've seen from recent events, and as we know from the geological record, catastrophic floods have happened frequently in human history.
The Scanlands in Montana were created when a glacier released a giant lake in that area, the Mediterranean has been flooded and dried repeatedly due to the closure and Gibralter (and evidenced by salt deposits among other geologic features), and if I remember correctly, the Black Sea also underwent a catastrophic flooding event which has been closely matched to stories of Noah's flood. It's either the Caspian, or the Black, I can't remember, but one of them is the most likely source of the particular flood story associated with Noah. But as most reasonable people know, the Biblical story of a global flood is just a myth.
