How is it that Many have Legends of a Global Flood?

You are correct and according to the Bible it was world wide but many don't even know it's in the Bible.

Genesis 7:17 And the deluge went on for forty days upon the earth, and the waters kept increasing and began carrying the ark and it was floating high above the earth. 18 And the waters became overwhelming and kept increasing greatly upon the earth, but the ark kept going on the surface of the waters. 19 And the waters overwhelmed the earth so greatly that all the tall mountains that were under the whole heavens came to be covered. 20 Up to fifteen cubits the waters overwhelmed them and the mountains became covered.

Verse 19 says it very clearly, "tall mountains that were under the whole heavens came to be covered". This was not in just one part of the earth. It would have effected the globe.

Edited: I usually post my reply before reading what others post. After reading them it's easy to see who their father is by their replies & don't let OO get to you Zebra. The name they use says volumes a double O. Need I say more?

A lot of people live on flood plains. Flood plains flood.

I'm willing to bet that there are even more cultures who have stories of magical little people. So do you believe in fairies?

"What about sea shells found in the Artic Polls?"

- what's your source for that?

You know the north pole is in the middle of an ocean, don't you?

"For what GOOD reason would you NOT believe their was a Global Flood?"

- I could write a book, but let's start with rock salt.

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Your comment about the "100 ancient catastrophic floods" is fairly typical of the creationist style of argument. You have simply copied this from a creationist website (it's all over the web) but you did not bother to find out what it was they were referring to. Neither did you say to yourself - "Well, of course floods happened in ancient times, what is the specific evidence that these particular floods were the result of one global flood rather than 100 localised floods?"

The floods you are talking about are called the Missoula floods and they happened at the end of the last Ice Age when there was a gigantic lake of meltwater in the middle of North America. The lake was dammed by ice most of the time but occasionally the ice dams burst releasing vast amounts of water across the land. The water cut channels through solid basalt, which is a hard rock, creating the channeled scablands of Washington state. The geologists know all this IN DETAIL, but the creationist websites only take one tiny bit of information from their work to try to support their case for a global flood. Why is that do you think?

Now think. Ask yourself: if these channels were created by the runoff waters from a global flood, why aren't they everywhere, not just in Washington? Why did this event leave vast plateaus of sandstone and limestone - much softer rocks - completely untouched? Why did it leave vast quantities of rock salt - which dissolves in water - untouched? Why didn't it wash all the soil and sand into the ocean basins, leaving just bare rock?

There is no case for a global flood. It's an old campfire story, and the only reason we are still discussing it is that it found its way into the Bible and some people are too insecure to accept that some parts of the Bible may not be literal truth.

@Fisherman:

"All mythologies have a tale about a woman causing or bringing curses or affliction upon people"

- no, just the ones from societies where women are denigrated.

Because we all descended from Noah's 3 sons.

As more ppl were born, they spread out over the earth,

just as God meant for mankind to do.

So reasonably, there would be differences, (humans tend to do that)

but a common theme, none-the-less.

And, by-the-way!!

Did the account not also tell of

"the Rainbow that God would put in the sky,

as a covenant to all mankind to never flood the entire earth again"...??

YES, it did.

Even a 4 year old child can (and does) recognize

a Rainbow in the sky, as "God's Promise."

I like how you ignore a great flaw in your argument. You seem to think that every flood story is referring to the same god, when in fact there are many different gods in the flood myths. The Bible doesn't even have the oldest flood myth ever written by the way, so it's not even the original.

I would also like to point out that many regions of the world the ancients lived in would have experienced local flooding. Because to many people, "the whole world", was nothing more than a small fraction of the Earth's land mass, it is mostly likely these stories are local flood stories that have small similarities.

Perhaps these World Food stories come from a time thousands of years before the biblical ''world flood'' when the world population was more concentrated in the middle East and Asia, with the Mongol Asians carrying the stories of localized floods with them to the Americas, Polynesia.. etc(Tanzanian version from Arab traders and Lemba Jews?)

Most mythologies have tales of a great flood. This is a manner of recording history.

All mythologies have tales of powerful and some angry gods. Again history. The stories of the nephilim, the offspring of the mating between angels and humans.

All mythologies have a tale about a woman causing or bringing curses or affliction upon people. Again a record of history.

Eve brought sin into the world as did Pandora by opening "Pandora's Box"

All of it points to the same original starting point and tends to confirm what the bible has to say'

The difference?

The bible is more accurate than the mythologies.

Congratulations. I agree and have often stated the same thing. Cultures around the world have the similar histories in their ancient legends. Some geological studies have confirmed similar sedimentary layers in very disparate locations around the world. The logical answer is that the biblical story has basis in fact. The people who scattered across the globe took this legend with them whereever they settled and so it was passed down even to this day.

Cultures in flood-prone areas tended to have legends about great floods.

Why on earth do you think sea shells could only get close to the poles via a global flood? Those ice sheets have not been there forever. Millions of years ago there were no ice caps.

The list of reasons a global flood could not have happened is very long, but the fact that there is no world-wide layer of sediment that dates to about 4-5000 years ago, or any world-wide layer of sediment at all, should do it.

Yeah ok...so which flood accounts are true? Which have been PROVEN to be true?

And if we are going to say "Yes there was a global flood" why does that have to be "proof" that the ENTIRE bible is the word of some baby killing god?

The Jews STOLE the flood story from somewhere...most likely from The Epic Of Gilgamesh which PREDATES the Torah by 2000 years.

If it is proven that a global flood occurred then certainly we go with the EARLIEST descriptions of a global flood as being the true source...right?

I'm sorry, but isn't Jennmaxx just precious? "...the world was much flatter then." LOL and according to YECs the mountains just shot up overnight in around 5000 years then? No civilizations that were up and running then, happened to notice the HImalayas just shooting up overnight? Or the poles freezing,

and you claiming what "geologists" find...

How amusing you are! LOL

These same people who claim that the our 4.5 billion year old planet is only about 6000 years old, with the symbolic character of Noah making it even younger (in YEC reckoning), yet these same folks look to geology to claim this ancient (and unoriginal) allegory has some truthful historical merit?

Seriously?

Our fundamentalist brethren should really stop bringing ridicule to our faith. How sad for you people.