[Vermont Lt]

Every culture has an origin myth. Many have flood stories. Nothing wrong with understanding man’s need to “know” where they came from.

Is Genesis the “true” story? Don’t know. Don’t really care.

[Yo-Yo]

Every culture has an origin myth. Many have flood stories. Nothing wrong with understanding man’s need to “know” where they came from.

Is Genesis the “true” story? Don’t know. Don’t really care.

I've read where the Great Flood account in the Bible roughly correlates with a theory that a land bridge across the Straits of Gibraltar collapsing and flooded the Mediterranean Sea, wiping out numerous settlements and accounting for the relics found under the Med.

And the Genesis story in the Bible roughly tracks with the "Big Bang Theory" of physics of a universe created out of nothing.

If you accept those two concepts, then all we're left with is quibbling about the embellished details of the stories.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Every culture has an origin myth. Many have flood stories.

Jews/Christians/Muslims. Also the ancient Greeks and ancient Hindus. It's very hard to believe the same flood affected areas all the way from Greece through the Fertile Crescent to the Indus, but who knows? Or maybe flooding was just a big concern for all ancient river cultures, wherever they were.