Re: There was no Noah in Noah's Flood

I called it "Noah's Flood" strictly for clarity, as opposed to, say, the major floods that we're having in Houston lately. What I think happened is that when the glaciers of the Ice Age melted, the sea level rose, and low-elevation places were sunken. Stories of floods come from many national myths and legends, from the Bible to Plato's Atlantis accounts. So traditional accounts of a "global flood" have some truth to it, except it was more of a succession of regional floods. We've been in a age of global warming that has recently accelerated, so we haven't seen the end of the floods this time around.

(Not to be an alarmist, but much of the US Gulf Coast is screwed. Don't know when...)

~DaW~

----- Original Message -----

From: Glen Gordon

To: nostratic@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:20 PM

Subject: [nostratic] There was no Noah in Noah's Flood

Danny Wier: >They could come from any place. Noah's flood was in Asia Minor >along the Black Sea coast Aaargh! It wasn't "Noah's" Flood! Can we please stop refering to the Bible as some kind of exact historical record. It's a set of mythologies that happen to have some historical facts thrown in, every now and then, for good measure. Personally, I'm very much doubting the Lake Euxine event as a source of the flood myths in the Middle-East. I think these legends are older than this and relate to Old Europe mythology, found along the Mediterranean, that tended to be very nautical by design. The Middle-Eastern flood myths are nothing more than a "second creation" myth. They do not need a prehistorical flood to provide their origin because it can be well seen that they were built on a watery myth of creation. Check out the Egyptian creation myths and compare it to the flood. They both start with a primordial ocean... I rest my case. Case solved.