(May 27, 2014 at 10:23 am)RobbyPants Wrote:(May 26, 2014 at 4:32 pm)ThePaleolithicFreethinker Wrote: Creationist claim that Noah's Ark is true because almost every country has a flood myth.
Japan not having a flood myth aside, it's still a stupid argument for someone to bring up. One of two possible things would have happened:
1) Everyone but Noah's family was wiped out, so there would be no other surviving cultures to talk about the flood.
2) These other myths came about after the fact and were distorted in various ways by other cultures. What about all the other myths in the Bible? If there's not a bunch of Adam-and-Eve myths, does that mean it's false? Tower of Babble? Exodus? Jonah? Also, if the point of the flood was to wipe out all wicked people, and the majority of people went on to start believing in other gods, of what use was the flood?
That's honestly some of the worst apologetics I've heard, apart from "God can kill babies because they just go to heaven anyway, but people can't, cuz reasons!"
Seeing that Adam & Eve lived down the road from Assyria and Cush it's a really lousy creation story.
The Biblical flood story is written in fluff to describe how the Assyrians swept through the land kicking butt and taking names. They were like a flood, sweeping all aside and leaving death and destruction. No actual water was involved.
