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Originally Posted by xelasnave
In the biblical story certain animals did not have a limit of two..somehow I suspect the limit not did not apply to farm animals...but really your problem today in building an Ark will be many fold so maybe looking for a site near Mikes hill top could achieve a similar goal.
Although the biblical flood story is written off by many folk because of the suggestion that it covered everything it would seem there is evidence for a dramatic sea level rise some 13000 years ago..I have read various accounts that sea levels went up by 30 feet in a couple of days, supposedly supported by ice core samples and that they went up hundreds of feet over two years.. just a 30 ft rise would get a pretty good myth going ..imagine if that occurred today the story would get told that the whole world went under in only a couple of generations.
The flood story is found in many cultures so one wonders.
The Ark inclusion may have started as some farmer transporting animals that survived . .who knows but the folk who talk about this big flood seem to have more than casual speculation...the scientist I refer to not the religious account...but it certainly appears in the Sumarian tablets...the thing is with history you should not jump on a particular hobby horse as even with good evidence speculation is really a big part of the game.
Alex
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Every Continent in the Whole World had the Story of the Universal flood. Some Australian Aboriginal tribes knew that story before White Man arrived in Australia. It was found throughout the Americas before the Spanish arrived, etc.
So The Sumerians were just another of many world wide Cultures that had that story.
