The problem with the entire Noah myth is that there are so many impossibilities with the story that you could write a series of books on them and still not cover everything. But that doesn't stop fundie Christians from insisting the story is literally true. It's even funnier when they claim to have actually found Noah's ark in Turkey.
Anyone claiming that it was just a local flood is wrong according to the bible, which claims that the flood waters covered the highest mountains upward of 18 cubits (IIRC). And frankly, if it wasn't a total global flood, then trying to drown all people on the planet is useless because at least some people could find higher ground. So I think Christians arguing whether or not the flood myth in Genesis was just a local or a global flood is pretty silly. On the one hand, you have a group of Christians who have to admit that, if it were just a large local flood, the bible is wrong when it says the highest mountains were covered, and on the other hand you have Christians who are arguing for the literal truth of a global flood which is totally impossible. It's like arguing whether Star Wars or Star Trek is more realistic, with the exception that these people really believe the sci fi actually happened.
I don't doubt that the biblical myth probably had its roots in the Epic of Gilgamesh, which was probably a story based upon a large local flood. But anyone actually believing that it is 100% real is a fool. And teaching the story to children while glossing over the deaths of who knows how many people is heinous.
Anyone claiming that it was just a local flood is wrong according to the bible, which claims that the flood waters covered the highest mountains upward of 18 cubits (IIRC). And frankly, if it wasn't a total global flood, then trying to drown all people on the planet is useless because at least some people could find higher ground. So I think Christians arguing whether or not the flood myth in Genesis was just a local or a global flood is pretty silly. On the one hand, you have a group of Christians who have to admit that, if it were just a large local flood, the bible is wrong when it says the highest mountains were covered, and on the other hand you have Christians who are arguing for the literal truth of a global flood which is totally impossible. It's like arguing whether Star Wars or Star Trek is more realistic, with the exception that these people really believe the sci fi actually happened.
I don't doubt that the biblical myth probably had its roots in the Epic of Gilgamesh, which was probably a story based upon a large local flood. But anyone actually believing that it is 100% real is a fool. And teaching the story to children while glossing over the deaths of who knows how many people is heinous.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
