Support for belief in Noah's flood, not evidence.

[Beer w/Straw]

The Bible and Britney Spears.

 

[C C]

Or all the other floods everywhere.

Yah, there were plenty of inundations in the deep past, and similar tales even among isolated, indigenous peoples of the New World. (Given the latest revisionary views that human occupation preceded Clovis people, the repeated destruction of the Missoula floods, or its results, might have been witnessed by survivors. And folkloric accounts of it dispersed by migrating descendants.)

Coastlines and so-forth were submerged by the effects of the receding ice age. If Doggerland "was flooded by rising sea levels" as late as 6500–6200 BCE, then surely there were scores of other locations around the globe that received similar treatment.

Claims are made that storytelling goes back at least circa 36,000 years. Australian aboriginal myths reflect aspects of that continent that pertained 10,000 years and longer ago.

Mesoamerican flood myths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_flood_myths

List of flood myths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths
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[Pinball1970]

Yah, there were plenty of inundations in the deep past, and similar tales even among isolated, indigenous peoples of the New World. (Given the latest revisionary views that human occupation preceded Clovis people, the repeated destruction of the Missoula floods, or its results, might have been witnessed by survivors. And folkloric accounts of it dispersed by migrating descendants.)

Coastlines and so-forth were submerged by the effects of the receding ice age. If Doggerland "was flooded by rising sea levels" as late as 6500–6200 BCE, then surely there were scores of other locations around the globe that received similar treatment.

Claims are made that storytelling goes back at least circa 36,000 years. Australian aboriginal myths reflect aspects of that continent that pertained 10,000 years and longer ago.

Mesoamerican flood myths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_flood_myths

List of flood myths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths
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Certainly close alignment to mesopotamian flood myths regarding the Genesis flood story.

 

[davewhite04]

I'm with the Epic of Gilgamesh theory. The ancient Jews lived in mesopotamia at one point where the Tigris and Euphrates river regularly flooded. Their mythologies were borrowed from several ancient sources, it was like a compilation of contemporary thinking about the world. Natural disasters would have been thought of as God's punishment for wrongdoing, so the moral of the story is don't do wrong or God will punish everyone. Of course, the continued existence of animals had to be explained... But a global flood would have left a layer of flood debris everywhere even on the bottom of the oceans, and this cannot be found. Ancient storytellers would never let truth get in the way of a good story.

Abraham came from a Sumerian city, which is suspicious. Sumerian history is fascinating, I love the epic of Gilgamesh.