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Warpy

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3. Many ancient cultures recorded flood stories

Reply to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Tue Mar 15, 2022, 04:44 PM

Mar 2022

They just weren't the silly Noah story.

Flood stories are a species memory of what happened at the end of the last Ice Age. Se rise was drastic and occasionally sudden when ice dams collapsed. It would be remarkable if people didn't have legends about losing so much of their home lands. I buy the flood stories, but only to a point.

But no, they don't prove one of the silliest stories in a book chock full of silly things.

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