re: Noah had dinosaurs on the Ark...

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Not sure why you call it “my biblical story.”

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I meant it generally.

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All I’m saying is that every culture on the planet has an extremely similar flood, savior, rebirth story.

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I’m saying that they don’t though. One right off the top are Egyptian flood myths. That notwithstanding though, is rebuilding after a flood really such an odd theme?

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Nearly every civilization on the planet has great flood myth.

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That is a lot different than what he said.

The Canaanite splinter group who created their own religion that went from a new polytheism to monotheism over a few generations still retained the same flood myths from the cultures pre-dating that monotheist religion that became what we now call Judaism.

There was some event at some point in humanity that was a deluge. Very few people argue against this.

However, he was specifically talking about Noah and his boat with animals. Just as the proto-Jews had the same flood myth without Noah, you can believe in a flood today without Noah.

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I’m saying that they don’t though. One right off the top are Egyptian flood myths. That notwithstanding though, is rebuilding after a flood really such an odd theme?

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They’re not all the exact same. They all have the same theme. So something happened a long time ago, at the same time, to every civilization on the planet.

You don’t have to be some religious fanatic to find that interesting or worth studying.

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, to every civilization on the planet.

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Not exactly

And, when the civilization from where we sprung is all located in one specific area, it becomes a lot easier to have a recurring theme. This particular flood myth is very localized to the Med/Aegean/Black sea area. Anatolia, Egypt, The Fertile Crescent, and the Levant.

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The American and Asian civilizations have very similar myths

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China has a river flood myth. Looking at it now, they have likely pinpointed when it happened.

Ancient civilizations are going to be located by water. Areas around water flood. Sea levels rise and fall depending on the world's climate.

Some people theorize the Med-related floods were myths created by ancient peoples finding water-related shells inland, explaining how they happened.

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Some people theorize the Med-related floods were myths created by ancient peoples finding water-related shells inland, explaining how they happened.

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Those people are wrong.

There was a great flood. God or aliens or whoever told a chosen people around the world to get on a boat. The earth was cleansed and there was a rebirth of human civilization. But we only live like 80 years now. We used to live hundreds of years

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Some people theorize the Med-related floods were myths created by ancient peoples finding water-related shells inland, explaining how they happened.

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I’ve also seen the theory that the flooding of the Mediterranean when the Atlantic broke through Gibraltar into the med and black seas as the explanation

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I’ve also seen the theory that the flooding of the Mediterranean when the Atlantic broke through the Baltic into the med and black seas as the explanation

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Gun to my head, this is "The Great Flood"

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Those people are wrong.

There was a great flood. God or aliens or whoever told a chosen people around the world to get on a boat. The earth was cleansed and there was a rebirth of human civilization. But we only live like 80 years now. We used to live hundreds of years

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Well tell me how Noah got kangaroos on the ark and I'll listen.

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Does it matter? You really need to figure out if you can accept virgin births and resurrection, if so, Kangaroos and boats are just trivia