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(10,252 posts)was originally the story Gilgamesh that the Jews incorporated, when in captivity in Babylon. It's literary hyperbole that "may" have described some flood event, but certainly not a flood of the whole world that wiped all but 1 breeding couple from each species.
Things cannot exist in impossible ways. 2 armadillos from Texas didn't swim across the gulf of Mexico, Atlantic ocean, and Mediterranian, and the walk across the desert to Iraq to hop on a boat.
Nor did 2 of every 300,00+ beetle species (600,000+) get on the boat.
packman
(16,296 posts)What always bothered me was the incest that would have had to happen to repopulate the earth. Then again, that inbreeding could explain a lot.
Marius25
(3,213 posts)all the Continents were connected before the flood (Pangaea) so armadillos just walked to the Ark.
Beetles would have just landed on floating debris to survive supposedly.
yellowdogintexas
(22,119 posts)somehow it seems a bit strange.
They do not believe geology and archaeology prove the creation of man after all.
Marius25
(3,213 posts)But I have seen them explain the animals reaching the Ark problem by claiming the continents were all connected pre-flood and the Flood is what broke them apart.
yellowdogintexas
(22,119 posts)I never thought about Gilgamesh influencing the Noah story,
I always figured it was generations of retelling of a flood event way back when. Isn't there some evidence of a flood in the Mediterranean?
I just found a Wiki on flood stories. There are far more of them than I thought and from all over the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths#Mesopotamian