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Originally Posted by Hymns  No...there is truth to this story. They didn't make up the flood, there was a great flood. Not worldwide, mind you, but they had no way of knowing exactly how big it was, only that their area of the world was flooded. | The Euphrates floods every year, and the geological record shows that there was once a massive flooding of the Euphrates, and thus most local civilizations have a flood story in their scriptures.
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Originally Posted by Hymns And how does that reflect on the Bible? | The story isn't unique to the Bible, has been plagiarized like most Biblical stories from previous faiths, and because its based on a real flooding indicates no truth or utility value in the Noah Story. Quote:
Originally Posted by Hymns By that same logic, since science at one time said that the world being flat was fact and was wrong, science is all wrong. How much sense does that make? | Not exactly, since popular opinion /= science. Just because most people who regarded themselves as their age's equivalent of a scientist believed in a pseudoscience, does not in any way cast contempt on the valid scientific method.
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