How can we be sure that the bible's account of the flood is accurate and not a rehashing of older recorded flood accounts. The tales of Gilgamesh, which I believe were Babablonian, according to historians,predates the Genesis account of the great deluge, has many striking similarities to it. Given the amount of religious and cultural diffusion which occured, how can we be sure that parts or all of the biblical account wasn't simply borrowed?
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I have read a convincing account of how there was a sweet-water lake at the bottom of what is now the Black Sea [north of Turkey > salt water]
Round this lake were settlements.
As the Ice Age melted, water from the Mediterranean suddenly broke though and submerged that early civilization.
Such a calamity will have left an abiding Folk Memory.
[similarly, the rising of Ocean levels round the world will have left a Folk Memory of
The Flood. eg , sunken cities offshore of India.
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The Biblical account of the Creation is confused and self-contradictory ; probably a quick re-hash of earlier, better-scripted Creation Tales.
