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RE: A question about the crew and passengers on the Ark.
September 14, 2018 at 5:21 pm
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Gosh. Someone misrepresenting things. How dare they! 'Scum of the earth' as you say.
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RE: A question about the crew and passengers on the Ark.
September 15, 2018 at 9:50 pm
Noah’s ark and the stories it is derived from (epic of Gilgamesh, and older Sumerian story) are just a myth, but the myth may have some base in real world events. There is some evidence of asteroid strikes around 10,000 BC that hit the ice Canadian ice sheets. Cubic miles of ice were instantly liquified, causing the major erosion in the US pacific north west.
We know sea levels were approximately 400 ft lower dur8ng the last ice age. If the sea levels made a very sudden jump (100’ perhaps more in a few days) and coastal regions were further undated with tsunami from ocean impacts. I could easily see how hunter gather groups living on coastal plains would think the entire world was being flooded, as they continually moved to higher ground while the sea levels rose for months or years to the present levels.
I do not think it outside the realm of impossibly for someone to have loaded his fam8ly and a few herd animals on to a hastily built raft to escape some shrinking island in the flooding Tigris or Euphrates river valley. Then the Ark myth grows from that.
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RE: A question about the crew and passengers on the Ark.
September 15, 2018 at 10:44 pm
Gilgamesh, and the earlier Mesopotamian myths of Ziusudra and Atrahasis, dealt with river flooding on the Tigris/Euphrates. That wasn't good enough for the fucking jews who came much later.
And of course xtians have delusions of grandeur.
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RE: A question about the crew and passengers on the Ark.
September 15, 2018 at 10:51 pm
For those who lived on a flat disc, the original stories could have gotten embellished and re-embellished over the centuries in some hero motif mixed in with the local deity.