Christian Extremists preach pure hate

[Richard]

Z. Sitchin found more evidence of the 'flood' in Sumerian 'stuff'. This could be what influenced the biblical rendition.

I see no reason to doubt the story of a flood. There have been lots of floods. And primitive people, not knowing about the rest of the world, would have thought that their whole world had been flooded. And not knowing about lions in africa or tigers in India, they would have thought that saving a pair of oxen, some chickens, pigs and sheep, was saving 'all' the animals. All the animals that mattered to them, anyway!

To take that historical record of a flood, written by a primitive people, as absolutely, literally true, is, well, laughable. But it needn't be an all-or-nothing proposition. It's not like it either happened the way it was described, or not at all. We know floods happened. No problem with that. It's the idea that they saved 1 pair of every species, and that the water covered the whole planet, that is...um...how do I say this nicely?

I agree, I read a treatise not long ago whose point was that there was not enough moisture in the atmosphere to form a biblical flood of the proportions imagined in so many ancient books. BUT, given the location of the cradle of humanity. What if there was a land bridge between what is now known as the Pillars of Hercules? That narrow strait that now joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean. What if an earthquake or land shift caused the Atlantic to flow into what is now the Mediterranean?

Can you just imagine? The entire force of the Atlantic ocean filling everything? Biblical flood indeed. But the guy also said it was likely to have happened much, much earlier than texts would have people believe. And that it was likely an older story handed down for generations and used by the various sects as teaching tool.

Riichard