WILLOWTREE writes:
You post evidence of a catastrophe then contrary to your evidence you brand it a myth. Where is the integrity in this ?
Myth - A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society.
So even describing something that actually happened can be a myth. You seem to think that a myth must be totally based on imagination. That is simply not the definition of a myth.
WILLOWTREE writes:
Evolutionists sure argue against anything catastrophic.
Actually it seems to me that many people so far in this thread have argued that floods have happpen. Isn't pretty much any flood event a catastrophy? Lets take a look back shall we:
crashfrog writes:
All those places flood, though. And their flood accounts don't match each other in terms of time, etc.
Why is the only explanation One Big Flood? How can the One Big Flood have happened when so much evidence contradicts it?
Ifen writes:
The existence of these accounts can be attributed to a flood occuring at some point in time, but not the same flood.
RAZD writes:
The fact that all such myths have many very different and divergent accounts of those events proves that they are relating to different events.
Agricultural societies began on floodplains, so one would expect every agricultural society to have a flood myth.
I don't think I have ever heard anyone say that catastrophy does not happen. If you need one more then consider myself. Catastrophy is an important aspect of the study of classical geology.
IOW, they were dumb ass neanderthals and you are going to tell us what they should have said.
No not neanderthals. Most definitly Homo Sapians. The first of our species to develop agriculture and bind themselves to one place such that an event like a flood would be disasterous. What would a flood be to a nomad? All they would have to do is pick up and walk the opposite direction. One mile per day is nothing for a civilization that isn't required to be stationary. For those whos life depends on structures, storage, crops, etc, a flood would be an awful thing to endure.
Also, we are not going to tell them what the should have said. They said what they did and wrote it down when writing became practical. All we can do is interpret what they left behind.
WILLOWTREE writes:
IOW, they didn't mean what they said, and you evos somehow "know" this.
Well, we could read what they write and decide that there really was ogres and such but since we do live in an age where we are a little less gullible then that we can use our knowledge that we have gained throughout history to try and decipher what real life elements are represented by the myth. You make it seem like historians are making up stories for their own convienence. You also assume all historians are "evos". Do you like living in a polarized world?
WILLOWTREE writes:
All you are doing is shouting down the evidence with rhetoric/misuse of logic.
Please show me how I have shouted down the evidence with rhetoric and misuse of logic. I do not ever intend to be illogical. In fact I am certainly not the one making absolute statements like "evos somehow 'know'" and "evos argue against anything catastrophic" which are certainly not true.
I hope that your reply can point out any logical fallacies that I am making in my statements. I look forward to hearning from you.
God Bless,
-Nasser
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