Honey, I Finished Genesis

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1. Randall Carlson tells such good stories that 1/2 the time I couldn’t care less of how sprinkled it may be with fiction.

   and I do think he knows his stuff.

2. Very interesting.

3. It’s easy to present a convincing argument for an idea if you’re the only one talking. Just present all the evidence that supports your idea and ignore the rest. And when the guy talking is a colourfull character like Carlson, who is great at looking like one lone genius against the world, then many will fall for it.

   But I definitely would want to hear a competent rebuttal before buying into anything this guy says.

   1. He was on the Joe Rogan podcast with such a skeptic. It went really well for Carlson.

4. Native Flood Myths/
   Why not.
   Assuming men lived on North America during the last ice age,then they would have seen flooding,flooding quite unimaginable to today, as the Laurentide Icesheet melted.
   The northern drainages were all blocked by ice..
   We can see where the ice melt passed on its way south.

   And glacial melt tends to the catastrophic as huge lakes of melt water can form and then break through their boundaries,creating massive flash flooding down hill of themselves..

   So native flood myth?
   Who needs The epic of Gilagmesh?

   After all,on a much shorter time frame ,oral tradition knew where the Terror was,sunk in Terror Bay..With the mast tip sticking above water for some years.

   1. Over the years I have read about more than one cultural/tribal group that has a flood story. It is not just in the Bible.

      1. 99% of humanity throughout history lives or has lived on a coast or a river. Water is the lifeblood of civilization, and watercourses flood periodically. There’s nothing more to it than that.

5. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…….

   1. … and then CO2 from Adam’s cooking fires heated up the atmosphere and melted the glaciers and caused a great innundation.”

      The gospel according to the United Church of Canada

6. Here’s a link to a site where there’s a collection of Great Flood stories/myths.

   I didn’t bother to read any of the stories, but the Index by country or region was very interesting to read through. It pretty much covers the globe. I only took a minute to look at all the countries listed, but it was eye-opening. For example, who’da thunk that the Philippines has a flood story? And Korea?

   When Randall Carlson mentions ‘lot’s of flood myths’, this list is what he’s talking about.

   http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html

   1. who’da thunk that the Philippines has a flood story

      The Phillipines? An archipelago right in the middle of a tropical hurricane zone? I can’t imagine how they’d ever develop a flood myth.

7. Back in the day, happened to read a book by Pauline Johnson where she related a flood narrative from the west coast of British Columbia. Have also recently read a “history” (and wish had kept the link) of Indians in North America where it was mentioned that the rising sea levels after the end of the last ice age did cause serious displacement for the coast-dwelling tribes. Said displacement probably took years, though the steady rise of the ocean would have been devastating to those affected by same who had to keep abandoning their dwellings and move to higher ground on a regular basis while areas they’d gleaned for berries, etc., were inundated. The whole experience was probably encapsulated in a “flood” narrative.
   Where this man turns me right off is in his insistence that the whole “flood” narrative stemmed from a catastrophic flood on the Euphrates River. Actually, the real culprit is Canada: Lake Agassiz (which covered much of Manitoba) burst its bounds and headed towards what is now Hudson’s Bay and – from there – out into the Atlantic. Needless to say, the additional water raised the level of the Atlantic Ocean and – by extension – the Mediterranean Sea. The rise would have been gradual but steady, but again with devastating effects.
   The Biblical version of “The Flood” probably over dramatizes the effects on the local area, but they would still have been profound. Let us all admit that the seas rose at the end of the last Ice Age, the effects were devastating on those dwelling close to said seas, and that they encapsulated their experiences in the various “Flood Narratives”.

8. There should be no more flood stories. Obammy stopped the rising seas.