(July 12, 2023 at 10:56 pm)Astreja Wrote: I have an alternate explanation: In the last 4500 years or so, humanity has been able to figure out a lot of things. Perhaps the recent past isn't the first time around for humans - it's possible (although not yet demonstrated archaeologically) that an earlier iteration of Homo sapiens had accumulated a similar body of knowledge, and some of it made it into scriptures.
l'm very much okay with that explanation