(July 13, 2014 at 6:01 pm)Lek Wrote: As far as the flood stories go, the Jewish and Christian story may or may not have written later that some, but the flood spoken of took place at a much earlier date than the date of composition. Even it there are other stories from widespread areas of the world, it doesn't show the bible writers copied, but more likely there was an actual worldwide flood.I can give you some slack on the rest of it, though the dates aren't as hard to approximate as you think they are and the Genesis flood really isn't the first flood story, but not on a world wide flood. If there had been a world wide flood there would be sedimentary evidence for it everywhere on earth in the same time period and it's just not there--not even close. There are numerous other problems with the world wide flood story including all the other continuous civilizations that appear unaffected for whom we have a continuous archeological record. The diversity of animals today can't have begun from the animals that could have been packed on a boat 6000 years ago. The lack of a universal extinction of animals in the fossil record demonstrates there was not flood. The shear amount of water required. All the fish would have died when the oceans and and that rain mixed. Noah couldn't have breathed the air if enough water to cover the earth had fallen in 40 days because there would have had to have been no air just water. I could go on and on and on and on.
Like a literal interpretation of the Geneses creation story, you can't have a world wide flood and stay within the realm of the remotely possible.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
