[IpaqMan]

Apparently, great flood stories exists in many cultures around the world. It would make sense to believe either there were a lot of local large floods or one universal flood.

[SedVictaCatoni]

Apparently, great flood stories exists in many cultures around the world. It would make sense to believe either there were a lot of local large floods or one universal flood.

I think it's most likely that there was one very large localized flood a long time ago, and that the story was so impressive (and so easy to visualize, because most cultures have experienced flood) that it propagated worldwide. My money's on the speculated Black Sea flood; it would have been long enough ago that the story could spread through population migrations.

[Stone Mountain]

Apparently, great flood stories exists in many cultures around the world. It would make sense to believe either there were a lot of local large floods or one universal flood.

Well, I'm sure a lot of cultures have flood stories. However, it makes sense that cultures would have stories of huge natural disasters that happened to them in the past. I'm sure a bunch of cultures have earthquake stories, typhoons, hurricanes, fires, etc. Do you think there are more flood stories than there are non-flood disaster stories?