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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
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Nobody is saying that floods don't happen. It was a common occurance for communties and tribes to be flooded out and thus, those events spark cultural memory that is passed down via word of mouth and writings through many millenia of the telephone game. Many cultures and religions have flood stories that parallel the Biblical one. The point where divergence happens is whether you believe that the flood story is a divinely inspired chronicle of supernatural power that changed the world and still has relevance and applicability to this day...or if it is just a thousands of years old cultural memory.