Chuck

And George Smith said, hey, this is strikingly familiar as the Christian-slash-Jewish Old Testament Noah's flood story, but this is several hundred years previous.

And for what reason?

What do you mean?

Well, I mean, wasn't this one of the ones where, like, earth is being punished, basically?

I think noisy and wicked are the same thing back then.

There was also the idea of saving animals.

And there was also the idea that afterward birds were sent out to find dry land just as in Noah's story.

Yeah.

Yeah, and over the years, a lot of people have tried to prove, whether scientifically or otherwise, that the Noah's Flood really did take place.

Bible literalists, is that what we call them?

I think so.

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That would go a long way in Christianity if you could say, hey, the Bible is an actual historical document.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