Colter
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The reason for these flood stories is not difficult to understand. The Bible, we learn that Noah’s descendants stayed together for approximately 100 years, until God confused their languages at Babel (Genesis 11:1–9). As these people moved away from Babel, their descendants formed nations based primarily on the languages they shared in common. Through those languages, the story of the Flood was shared, until it became embedded in their cultural history. As you are probably not aware out of idiocy oral traditions vary over the centuries in some cultures without written forms of literature, hence legends.
However, Hawaiians have a flood story that tells of a time when, long after the death of the first man, the world became a wicked, terrible place. Only one good man was left, and his name was Nu-u. He made a great canoe with a house on it and filled it with animals. In this story, the waters came up over all the earth and killed all the people; only Nu-u and his family were saved. Interesting to say the least how similar it is to the Biblical account.
Another flood story is from China. It records that Fuhi, his wife, three sons, and three daughters escaped a great flood and were the only people alive on earth. After the great flood, they repopulated the world.
As the story of the Flood was verbally passed from one generation to the next, some aspects would have been lost or altered. And this is what has happened, as we can see from the chart. However, as seen in the given examples, each story shares remarkable similarities to the account of Noah in the Bible. This is true even in some of the details, such as the name Nu-u in the Hawaiian flood story. “Nu-u” is very similar to “Noah.”
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I have a question for you, if one of your ancestors were from a fish and over millions of years went through a slow process of evolving into you, why are there millions of transitional fossils missing to commandeer this theory of an idiot fish into an idiot squirrel into an idiot ape into an idiot you?
Yes, many cultures have flood stories because there have been many floods such as the recent Tsunami in Japan which, had it happened long ago, would have blamed on the Gods. Today we know it's was from an underwater earthquake.
Evolution has been characterized by "sudden" mutations. The chances of a superior primate pair would be found next to their inferior parents is zilch.
The Hebrew redactors in Babylon used a locally known flood legend in their genealogical account in the Bible. Being unable to trace their bloodlines back to what they presumed were the first couple, Adam and Eve, they decided to drown the whole world in it's own wickedness to fill the gap. It was a story written by Hebrew priest for the scattered and newly enslaved Israelites. They made NO claim of writing the Word of God.
Speaking of transitional fossils, where are the stories or fossils from Noah's kids having Chinese babies?
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