[Little Pig]

I figured it was a race memory. Many cultures, not just those in the eastern Med, have a flood story, and that long ago, pretty much everyone was fairly near there. It certainly would have made an impression on anyone who saw it. Granted, though, that to the best of our scientific knowledge, the “humans” around at that time were little differentiated from ordinary apes.

[Rockingham]

Although Mt. Ararat in modern Turkey near the Black Sea is usually credited as the resting place of Noah's Ark, there is also a Mt. Ararat in Iran. It fits well with the notion of a tsunami from the Indian Ocean as a result of a major impact event at the beginning of recorded history.

I think that early humans were more advanced than they are commonly given credit for being. Brain capacity was as large or larger than it is today, and there is evidence of sophisticated tool making, language, and religious belief. Yet five million years ago seems too far in the past for a cultural memory to survive to be recorded in even the Old Testament.

[WorldviewDad]

I would disagree about “humans” having little differentiation from ordinary apes. This is an assumption that is made about what “science” has found. We are truly arrogant if we think that we can study fossilized bones and tell how smart the person was, the color of their skin, how hairy they were, etc. The Bible is clear that God created man in HIS IMAGE. Not in the image of an ape,kangaroo, lizard, fish, or one cell organism (all in our family tree based on the teaching of evolution at different times.)

Ancient man was very intelligent. I would suggest reading the book “The Puzzle of Ancient Man” by Dr. Donald Chittick