One of the biggest mistakes one can make while writing or commenting on anything other than concrete truth is to make comments like "There is no", or "This did or didn't happen". These are declarative statements and are considered claims of fact.
The truth is, there is evidence that can justify the claim that the global flood story is a myth that was borrowed from other flood narrative across other Mediterranean cultures. On the other hand, there are stories of a grand, cataclysmic flood that exist in cultures that had not read or have been exposed to Mesopotamian flood stories.
There are no absolutes in this story relating to the "facts" of what really happened. Could it have been a meteor that struck the Atlantic Ocean and created Tsunamis that washed up along the Eastern coastlines of North, Central, and South America as well as European and Middle Eastern Shores via the Mediterranean Sea? It's possible.
One can't simply dismiss the Noah's Ark story as borrowed myths without considering that global flood narratives exist in places that had never been exposed to any knowledge of the larger world or other civilizations that existed therein.
I personally believe something did happen, but the absolute, concrete facts of it may never be fully known. Until then, it's one of humanity's great mysteries.
One of the biggest mistakes one can make while writing or commenting on anything other than concrete truth is to make comments like "There is no", or "This did or didn't happen". These are declarative statements and are considered claims of fact.
The truth is, there is evidence that can justify the claim that the global flood story is a myth that was borrowed from other flood narrative across other Mediterranean cultures. On the other hand, there are stories of a grand, cataclysmic flood that exist in cultures that had not read or have been exposed to Mesopotamian flood stories.
There are no absolutes in this story relating to the "facts" of what really happened. Could it have been a meteor that struck the Atlantic Ocean and created Tsunamis that washed up along the Eastern coastlines of North, Central, and South America as well as European and Middle Eastern Shores via the Mediterranean Sea? It's possible.
One can't simply dismiss the Noah's Ark story as borrowed myths without considering that global flood narratives exist in places that had never been exposed to any knowledge of the larger world or other civilizations that existed therein.
I personally believe something did happen, but the absolute, concrete facts of it may never be fully known. Until then, it's one of humanity's great mysteries.