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Although I do think your zeal is not without a deeper motivation than our geologic history

Actually I'm normally on the other side of this argument. As i stated in my earlier posts, the idea that there was some kind of flood event in pre history is backed up by the facts. It appears in many different cultures all around the Med and Middle East. Also the rise of the Med, flooding of the Black Sea, washouts from the Green Sahara, or volcanic tsunami are all possible, explainable, and survivable concepts. I would say that this type of flood, capable of being the source of the Noah narrative is not only possible, but likely.

Note that the most important element of the story, for the purpose of religion, is that God warned the faithful man of impending disaster so that he could prepare and survive it. That theme dose not depend on the size of the flood. And as a testament to Gods power, a localized event (and by localized I mean only devastating the entire coastline of the Mediterranean or Black Sea) will do just fine. But when you say that there was an event so violent that is raised mountain ranges miles into the air, completely submerged all the land of Earth. That someone was able to survive that event it in a wooden boat. And further that there would be little or no surviving evidence of a mechanism that could raise mountains or flood the land, that is asking for a lot more than just faith.

In an earlier post I mention Moses, that was not a typo. Moses wrote down the first five books of the bible. Prior to that, for many generations, they had been an oral history. Your quote "Those who claim to know the details of events so long ago using only inference are doomed to endless error." But are you not the one insisting on the details of the story? Let me put forward two possibilities. The details of a chosen people's survival of a cataclysmic, regional flood because of warning from God were exaggerated as an oral history. Or that all the rules of fluid dynamics, atmospherics, conservation of mass, wooden shipbuilding, and geology have changed radically in less than 10,000 years? My faith is not diminished by the first option. My sense of reality does cause me to deeply question the second.

==Actually I'm normally on the other side of this argument. As i stated in my earlier posts, the idea that there was some kind of flood event in pre history is backed up by the facts. It appears in many different cultures all around the Med and Middle East.

Flood Myths from around the world:

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http://www.nwcreation.net/noahlegends.html