Originally posted by Tim:
After the tower of Babel, God scattered all the people living to other parts of the earth. That is the reason why so many cultures and religions have the same stories, although thousands of years have changed them somewhat. That is why there are cultures in Africa that have never even seen an outside human being before have a story of a global flood although they have never been contacted by other people.
rather than listen to what the church says about those stories, why not google them yourself.
here is a few things you will find.
1) all the stories come from areas around rivers. In areas that dont have rivers, they dont have stories about floods.
2) many of those stories are about mystical warrors that beat back the flood. In Africa, there is a story about a warror that fought the flood with a spear and saved his family. no mention of animals at all.
3) in china, the stories is about a warrior with a sword that split the flood in half to save his town. ther was no mention of animals.
4) in south america there is a story about the gods fighting and one of them cried, flooding the world. Only one man and one woman survived. the only mention of animals is the dead animals they lifed on. No mention of children either.
5)Inits and native americans dont have any legends about floods, but there is a couple of stories from some of the tribes about a spirit getting mad at someone and racing down the river bank after them. Either they got the bad guy or the hero managed to escape though his special streagth.
6)If there were a global flood story, polonesian (sp?) islanders would surely have had stories of it, but they dont.
7) all the stories that are simular to the bibles all stem from the middle east.
