yalla

I suppose it's time to be a little bit blunt.
I regard, and I doubt I'm alone in this, that the flood stories around the world are entirely due to local conditions.
The northern Australian ones are stories created in an environment where monsoon floods occur every wet season over vast areas, you could fit Canaan into the area several times.
And the stories have been around for a very very long time, as attested by 100's of cave paintings dated many many millenia before Noah was a twinkle in his dad's eye.
So there is absolutely no relationship whatsoever with the alleged Noah at all, at all, at all.
Outside my window and around the corner a long stone's throw away visible by naked eye is a site with 12,000 year old petroglyphs, the sacred significance of which is understood and able to be explained [if desired and appropriate] by a bloke that lives across the river from me.
And flood is part of that tradition...and when you know that the river used to flood and abate every year ..well of course that's entirely to be expected.

So let's stopping flogging this dead horse of a Noachian flood huh.

Boro Nut

I don't know Spanky. I am at a loss to explain how people could possibly remember a flood too. Earthquakes, yes. Avalanches, possibly. Floods, no. Perhaps they had a flood.

I'm also at a loss to explain how they could remember a global flood that erm... drowned them all.

Boro Nut

Amaleq13

The digression into plate tectonics has been moved to E/C and can be found here: Plate tectonics and the Great Flood of the Bible

CaliNORML

I thought I had heard on the news of a local tale in Thailand, repeated after the Tsunami had struck. The tradition of keeping the places of children, ie schools so forth, in the hills instead of near the coast.

This practice most likely came from the elders as a warning for just such disasters, although not connected to Noah, there are local memories in stories from many people across the planet who have survived such natural disasters. These stories of floods come in many different forms and as stated above, due to natural reasons of the geography.

KMS