Chuck

Okay, Bible literalists, Bible historians, because that would...

That would go a long way in Christianity if you could say, hey, the Bible is an actual historical document.

This stuff is really true.

And in the 18th and 19th century, there was something called deluvialism, deluvial meaning like relating to a great flood.

But that was a big shaper of actual geology was basically saying, hey, this physical, literally the physical world that we're living in came about after this flood, what kind of reset things.

And then the real geological record came along once science got serious and they proved that was not the case.

And that kind of went the way of the dodo around the mid-1800s.

Yeah.

Yeah, and there were, you know, it's more than just those.

There were Chinese flood myths.

There were flood myths in southern Canada, in the British Isles.

So there was one study that picked out 50 cultures and they all had their own flood myths.

And that it was related to some kind of punishment.

So they started looking, like you said, of like, why is this happening?

And there's a bunch of reasons, and they all kind of make sense to me, if I'm being honest.

One of them is that there was a flood in these cultures, but it wasn't a global flood.

But if you're...

You know, if all you know is a certain area and you never get to leave that area and it wipes out everything you know, then the story that you pass along orally through the years would sound like one that wiped out everything.

Yeah, and some more support for this is the fact that there aren't flood myths in sub-Saharan African cultures.

And these were groups that when they left Africa, they didn't come back.