Cosmos & Neil Degrasse Tyson state that Great Flood occurred in Sumeria & retold as Noah's Ark

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This is not exactly new - everyone who have basic understanding of history - know about the Sumerian legend - and that the bible have getting some of the stuff - from the ancient legends of Sumer - even some christians - who have studied the old legends of old - that be the ones who is in the bible - or the ancient sumer tales - have recognized the similarities about the two legends - about a wast flood who in their view swallowed the world - and where just a few ones survived - for again making sure the world was a just place to be....

In fact - some have pointed to a few places where in ancient times - where water have swallowed great places of land - When at the end of the last Ice age - between what was the Meditarian - and what would become the Black Sea - when the landmass between the two broke up - and a lot of water was coming true - to what become the black sea - some says - it could be one of the places where the ancient history of a great flood - who drowned "the world" - and where some of the history who become the great legends of Sumer - or in the bible can have it roots into - after all it was in historic times - and for the ones who experienced it - it must have been horrifying to put it blunt - maybe all what they had was going down in under the water.

It could also be because of a great flood in the great rivers who have been there since ancient times - the Sumerian Empires - and also most of the other ancient empires of the middle east - was growing up between Eurfrat and Tigris - two of the most important rivers in the world history I would say, as it was the birth place of lot of our culture, our traditions - and not to say some of our first great breakthroughs - like grain - and the possibility to put om paper words who could reach down generations - all the way back to our times, where the ancient writings still puzzles the experts...

What Creationist would say about it - well they have their ideas already - and I doubt even DeGrasse Tyson would be able to make them think different - if anything they will possible double down on what they already know - and not budge when it come to what the rest of the world sees as "fact" - based on historic experience....

On a side note - I would say - the bible, at least the Old testament is a book written by a people who was right out of the bronze age - the knowledge about the world was rather limited - and possible also very frightening - today we can explain most of it by natural cases - but this people we are talking about now do not had that knowledge - and had to explain it by other means - and they also had to explain how the world started - and would end - and that we, humans, specially his chosen people had to respect his authorities - or do the consequences of it.. Some parts of the bible, also reach into ancient history - mostly because it is commenting about greater powers - and explain how the Old Israel could survive squished in between the big powers - Egypt and Sumer - and then Babylonia and so one..... Of course - it is from the eye of the old jewish people - who had the misfortune of being attached and displaced many times over the ancient world - even today small renemats of that displacement - live in country's like Egypt, Iran, Iraq and so one - who have lived there since at least 3000 BC.... Or less....



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