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If you are interested in what the flood was really about, there is an interesting scientific theory about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Et2jvrY7Y

It works really well as sci-fi, but don't you think floods happen often enough that every culture will have a story of one?

There's more reasonable and basic ideas in this field than the pseudoscientific ideas being put forward in that video.

Yes, I am calling it pseudo science on the basis that the author thinks that the biblical figure Noah lived to be more than 600 years old, near the time that god created the earth.

A better starting point would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth

I am interested in annoying people who believe in the flood by providing intentionally wacky and untestable theories, as a joke.

I don't need a YouTube video to make that kind of joke, and I'm unkind to people who think those kinds of videos are anything more than jokes

Allow this thought into your head, dear chooms: The best scientific explanation for the flood, hands down, is the process of mythopoesis.

That's what the flood is quite likely all about, and it would be good to make peace with that. We have evidence that people tend to spread false stories over the generations, more so than they spread truth.

It’s a lovely story, but given the pre-existing myth of Utnapishtim, the biblical account is basically Babylonian mythology fan fiction.

What exactly is this suppose to change? I don’t think it really happened, myths are ways of encapsulating truths they aren’t historical events generally, but assuming it was real why would it being older than the Bible disprove that?

Why is it brought up as a bad thing that the myths are much older than the compilation book the Bible? That makes the myths more interesting and impressive.

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