21st April 2004, 10:19 AM
Quote:I never thought about that, but that theory does have some merit... the idea that the Great Flood didn't cover the entire world as we know it, but the entire world as they knew it. The Bible was written by humans and is subject to contain errors of the sort, so it's possible that the Great Flood, if a true story, occured only in the known world.
I was surprised at first to hear that there might be truth behind the Great Flood, but then I heard that more than just the Hebrews had the story... for instance the Babylonians and other Sumerian cultures did. And then I heard the thing about the Black Sea. To expand: Once, the Bosphorus/Dardanelles were higher. Only some water got through and it went down a waterfall to land in the much lower Black Sea. But at some point, that block broke. The Meditteranean poured in and the land flooded... as you can imagine, quite the disaster to the people living there...