(May 18, 2015 at 1:13 am)robvalue Wrote: Which is more likely?
1- There was this cool idea for a flood story. Maybe it even started out being about a minor flood that actually happened. Word got around about it over time, and it got distorted into lots of different stories in lots of different religions.
2- There was a massive flood, generated by a deity, for which no evidence can be found.
3 - There have been many actual floods in many actual places. So stories of floods occur in a variety of places, some of which get exaggerated.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
