(July 29, 2010 at 9:44 am)Zen Badger Wrote: When your whole world is pretty much the distance you can walk in a day, a flood on the scale of the Black Sea innundation would basically represent a global event.
And add to that the exaggeration that's bound to happen as the folk tale is passed on orally over the generations. Heck, even now in our modern age with snopes readily available, glurge stories still get passed around the internet. These stories might have been works of fiction or vaguely related to some real event.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist