Eternal punishment is pointless.

[dyresand]

In fact I am the one to explain these things away, based on my knowledge of history and my interest in mythology.

Here's one of the easier sources pointing out the similarities between the older Sumerian myths and the later Torah.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panbabylonism

Since you know so much about panbabylonism, you know that it was never widely accepted, confined mainly to Germany for a short period during the early 1900s.

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Sorry bud, this is only my second post in this thread. All the content you had to work with when you wrote this accusation was represented in my post above; I never said anything about Sumerian myths, so you can't exactly be bringing this up as a double standard against me. You don't know my position on it.

Not that "you just explain those things away," is much of a rebuttal, more a statement of facts. Yes, I do explain them away, because there are more logical explanations for them.

Also? What I did say, did not even entertain the possibility of mythological copying. My point was that the worldwide flood idea was probably an exaggeration, not plagiarism, and that the actual physical evidence simply dos not even allow for the possibility of a real worldwide flood.

So to recap: you didn't address what I actually said, accused me of something I never even spoke about, and didn't so much as rebut that, but rather state what I was actually doing, as though it's inherently wrong.

Maybe try responding to me, the next time you respond to me?

Sorry about that. And, by the way, I do agree that the floods in these stories could have been local. They could have been referring to "their" world and using hyperbole.

nope and noway in a desert such as the middle east.