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Junior Chimp
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« on: December 05, 2005, 09:10:33 PM » |
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Numerous cultures across the world have a great flood myth. Floods appear in the Bible, the Quran, the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, the Hindu Puranas, Greek mythology, Norse mythology, Inca mythology, and so forth.
Obviously, this does not prove that the whole world was actually consumed by a flood at any particular time, and it certainly does not prove that the flood was caused by God. However, it might indicate that there is probably an historical basis for a flood story of some kind. Perhaps the end of the Ice Age, and the related rise in sea-levels, led to the rise of these legends?
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