Agnostic75
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Who wrote the stories? According to global flood advocates, the stories could only have been written by people who were on Noah's ark, and/or their descendants, since the flood killed everyone else in the world.
If all flood stories were written by people who were on Noah's ark, and/or their descendants, there would probably be far more commonalities in the flood stories than there are. A very detailed list of global flood stories is at Flood Stories from Around the World. The great differences among them are much more obvious than the similarities.
It is important to note that many of the flood myths might have been written as deliberate fiction.
Consider the following:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html
Man of Faith said:Over 350 cultures around the world have a great flood story and 80% of the stories have commonalities.
Who wrote the stories? According to global flood advocates, the stories could only have been written by people who were on Noah's ark, and/or their descendants, since the flood killed everyone else in the world.
If all flood stories were written by people who were on Noah's ark, and/or their descendants, there would probably be far more commonalities in the flood stories than there are. A very detailed list of global flood stories is at Flood Stories from Around the World. The great differences among them are much more obvious than the similarities.
It is important to note that many of the flood myths might have been written as deliberate fiction.
Consider the following:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html
talkorigins.org said:Why is there no mention of the Flood in the records of Egyptian or Mesopotamian civilizations which existed at the time?
Biblical dates (I Kings 6:1, Gal 3:17, various generation lengths given in Genesis) place the Flood 1300 years before Solomon began the first temple. We can construct reliable chronologies for near Eastern history, particularly for Egypt, from many kinds of records from the literate cultures in the near East. These records are independent of, but supported by, dating methods such as dendrochronology and carbon-14. The building of the first temple can be dated to 950 B.C. +/- some small delta, placing the Flood around 2250 B.C. Unfortunately, the Egyptians (among others) have written records dating well back before 2250 B.C. (the Great Pyramid, for example dates to the 26th century B.C., 300 years before the Biblical date for the Flood). No sign in Egyptian inscriptions of this global flood around 2250 B.C.
How did the human population rebound so fast?
Genealogies in Genesis put the Tower of Babel about 110 to 150 years after the Flood [Gen 10:25, 11:10-19]. How did the world population regrow so fast to make its construction (and the city around it) possible? Similarly, there would have been very few people around to build Stonehenge and the Pyramids, rebuild the Sumerian and Indus Valley civilizations, populate the Americas, etc.
Why do other flood myths vary so greatly from the Genesis account?
Flood myths are fairly common worldwide, and if they came from a common source, we should expect similarities in most of them. Instead, the myths show great diversity. [Bailey, 1989, pp. 5-10; Isaak, 1997] For example, people survive on high land or trees in the myths about as often as on boats or rafts, and no other flood myth includes a covenant not to destroy all life again.
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