"Yeah, "stuff happens." Wait logn enough and your city will be trashed by *something*. Not exactly a world-shattering realization."
It's more than that. For example, on one side of the earth there are numerous stories about a very long day, while on the other side of the world there are stories about a very long night.
The stories of the flood match up very well.
Other stories of catastrophe match almost perfectly culture-to-culture, as if they had all experienced the same thing.
"Source, please."
Anything by Shapiro or the self-organizational theorists. Perhaps also the book "Evolution in four dimensions".
> For example, on one side of the earth there are numerous stories about a very long day, while on the other side of the world there are stories about a very long night.
Really? Odd. None of the cultures that were around 3000 years ago and that kept good records, such as the Indians and the Chinese, who recorded every odd thign in the sky, make any mention of such.
Perhaps you shoudl back up your claim.
> The stories of the flood match up very well.
No, they don't. Stories of big floods are universal, it's true. But then, big floods are fairly universal experiences, and are hardly unlikely to affect people. Floods, far more than storms or earthquakes or plagues, stand a good chance of wiping out not only the works of a civilization, or the people of a civilization... but *both*.