If Noah's society was technologically superior, what if aliens are merely the other flood survivors

schuyler

conundrummer
Every culture DOESN'T have the flood story, that's Christian propaganda when they say everyone has the flood story. Lots of cultures have such a story because lots of cultures have flooding, so can conceive that a worldwide flood would be a huge disaster. If anything the hoax is that the biblical flood was recorded everywhere.

Every culture doesn't, but lots do? Which is it? I don't think anyone has ever claimed EVERY culture, but the point is that enough do to call it a common theme in mythology. Although Christians may point to this as "proof" of THEIR myth, the fact is that they still exist and have been reported not just by Christians, but by anthropologists and folklorists worldwide. Christians may seek to claim it, but other cultures can also assert their right to say that Noah was simply a local variation from a small desert tribe of no consequence.

Apologists will claim that the majority of ancient cultures were near the sea and rivers, and that rivers flood, therefore that is the origin of the ubiquitous "Flood myth."

the physical evidence does not support the existence or possibility of a worldwide flood.

Well, it does, actually. You can go diving in the Sea of Japan and find structures with steps that look like ancient stone buildings. These are not just "cracks in the rock" but equally spaced stone steps. You can do the same thing off the east coast of India, and there are some intriguing finds off the east coast of North America as well. Interestingly, most of the places where significant finds have been made are nowhere near traditional "Christian" territory. They are associated, at least physically, with cultures that never heard of Christianity until fairly modern missionaries showed up.

It's difficult to dive below 100 feet without specialized equipment, but you don't really have to. The "flood" likely amounted to not much more than this anyway. A rise in sea level of 80-100 feet would have effectively flooded most any seacoast civilization completely and as far as the residents were concerned, that qualified as a "worldwide flood" in their eyes.

I'm not trying to prove Noah nor support Christianity, mind you. I believe Noah, the person, and the details of the story, including the ark itself, to be details added for the benefit of the story. there was no ark full of animals two by two. If a "Noah-like" man existed, he grabbed a few goats and chickens and ran for the nearest big boat as the sea began to rise.

But the idea that global warming at the end of the last ice age 12-14,000 years ago melted an ice dam surrounding Hudson Bay and released trillions of gallons of water into the oceans in a few hours, thus flooding the coasts, makes sense to me. This is the same thing that happened with Lake Missoula in Canada, the resulting flood from which carved out eastern Washington as the water headed down the Columbia River Valley toward the Pacific, something completely accepted by science today. Hudson Bay was just a bit bigger, is all, and is the source for the flood stories.

Makes a lot more sense than "God did it."

edit on 3/26/2014 by schuyler because: (no reason given)

Christianity is a new agey religion and generally speaking, its a fresh coat of paint over a wall full of sculpted religions already pre dating it.

Its not abnormal to find old stuff from different religions, it would be downright shocking to find a cross with jesus on it that carbon dates to 100000 years ago, as an example.