Johnny Skeptic

If this does not make any sense, please forgive me.

Here are my theories about the stories of the flood and the Tower of Babel: A naive and ignorant Bible writer(s) was puzzled by the diversity of languages because he wondered how so many languages could have become so different from whatever language Adam and Eve spoke. He asked God to tell him why there were so many different languages in the world. God told him that there was a global flood, a flood that the writer had no previous knowledge of. God told him that after Noah's group left the ark, everyone spoke the same language. Then God told the writer about the story of the Tower of Babel, a story that the writer had no previous knowledge of. The writer invented his own solution, but attributed the solution to God.

If Noah's descendants repopulated the earth, it is quite strange that none of them ever mentioned the God of the Bible in their writings as they moved far away from Palestine. If the God of the Bible does not exist, that explains that.

Since I already have a similar thread at the GRD Forum, I request that a moderator not tranfer this thread to that forum. If this thread does not belong at this forum, I do not mind if a moderator does whatever he wants with it.

Harry Bosch

Holy crap! That's a very good point. You're absolutely right. The surivors of the flood would have carried with them stories about how God saved them. The entire known world would have been Jewish.

ImaAtheistNow

Please don't misuse the word theory: Creationists do that enough.

If you have a hunch, speculation, educated guess, personal opinion, idea, or whatever, please use the appropriate term.

Chemist99a

If the flood happened then it was due to the appearance of a great deal of water followed by the disappeance of a great deal of water. Thats my theory and I'm sticking to it, unless of course no theory is necessary to explain a non-event.

JayW

The Bible story of the flood was written from a far older story of an actual local flood. The words erth and world do not necesarily have to mean global. The kings of different epire used the same words,but noone thinks that Nebuchdnezzer actually believed He was king of the western world. Speaking of Nebuchadnezzer,He also rebuilt a tower near Babylon that he claimed was an ancient religious site.

Johnny Skeptic

The word "theory" was appropriate. The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines the word "theory" as follows:

1: the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another

2: abstract thought, speculation

3: the general or abstract principles of a body of fact, a science, or an art <music theory>

4 a: a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action <her method is based on the theory that all children want to learn> b: an ideal or hypothetical set of facts, principles, or circumstances—often used in the phrase in theory <in theory, we have always advocated freedom for all>

5: a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena <the wave theory of light>

6 a: a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation b: an unproved assumption : conjecture c: a body of theorems presenting a concise systematic view of a subject <theory of equations>
synonyms see hypothesis

Johnny Skeptic

Well of course, but the topic title is 'A possible explanation for the STORY of the global flood.' What you said deals with science. My opening post deals with the writer's motives, not with science.

GolfVixen

I think this belongs better in BC&H.

Vixy

Newfie

Maybe you are thinking of when the Mediterranean broke into the Black Sea. I think they found evidence for that.

mg01

That idea has been all but abandoned. Even one of it's two founders reversed his conclusions.