Bible and the history

But then why the need for the story to be carried all the way around the world? Unless the earth was being repopulated? It appears in almost every culture. See here for a list: Flood Stories from Around the World

Floods are a major event in most parts of the world, so one would expect catastrophic flood stories to be near universal.

Interestingly, around here there is an Indigenous story about the Murray River breaking through and creating the Barham Choke that is suffiently precise to date it to the real geological event - between ten and fifteen thousand years ago.

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Not the same story of the same flood appears in nearly every culture.

The similarities are too remarkable to dismiss, please read the link, most of them contain some sort of Noah type figure as well.

I just read one page of them, and not a single Noah figure in sight, so "most of them contain a Noah figure" would appear, at first glace, to be an overstatement at best.

But what constitutes a Noah figure? Someone escaping the flood on a boat would be a pretty common theme in a flood story.

__________________
Goodness is stronger than evil,
love is stronger than hate,
light is stronger than darkness,
life is stronger than death,
victory is ours through him who loved us.
(++Desmond Tutu)

I'ead similar things before. All the flood stories with genuine similarities have common roots in the same area, which is what we'd expect. One of the places civilisation began was in Mesopotamia, were the flood story is part of their oral tradition, so its not suprising that the flood story was incorporated into all of their successor cultures. But guess what? Cultures and civilisations that DON'T decend from Mesopotamian roots don't have the same flood story.

I'm not ignoring the similarities, I'm merely avoiding leaping to the conclusion that best suits what I want to believe, and rather trying to analyse things a little further.