"Noah's Flood Hypothesis" -- referring to the idea that this 9,000 year old flood might have been the inspiration for the 'flood' story written down 6,000 years later, first in the epic of Gilgamesh and then in the bible.
Doesn't have anything to do with "the bible is the exact word of God". Doesn't really have anything to do with the bible at all, in fact, except as an influence on it.
You've taken a scientific thread and made it a mythology thread. And I don't believe in your myths, so you just cut me out of the thread.
Thanks a lot.
Of course both topics are completely relevant to this thread. When comparing X to Y one needs to examine both X and Y doesn't one ? The author or scientists endeavor to explain that the flood they are examining matches the Noah story. In order to make that examination both need to be examined. In examining the Noah story it is very relevant whether the text is supposed to be completely literal or metaphorical.
You are making a claim that its reasonable from a scientific point of view that we can compare X to Y without examining X because X has religious significance. I will propose to you that your claim that we can compare X to Y wihout examining X lacks any scientific merit and might be considered by most folks as silly.