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The whole idea of Noah is insane. No boat could hold all land mammals.

Plus most would just consume each other during the storms. Noah was probably a boat maker that said he was going to build the biggest boat ever. Then got sidelined by cost and labor.

Then someone decided to make a story in his honor in an old book of fairy tales.

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Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There is textual and historical evidence that Noah’s ark was adapted from the epic of Gilgamesh, which predates Noah’s ark by about 1000 years. So it doesn’t make sense because it’s plagiarized from a story that was never meant to be taken seriously.

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- Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wikipedia briefly covers this on the page about Noah, and also talks about a story about Deucalion:
  
  The story of Noah in the Pentateuch is similar to the flood narrative in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, composed around 1800 BC, where a hero builds an ark to survive a divinely sent flood. Scholars suggest that the biblical account was influenced by earlier Mesopotamian traditions, with notable parallels in plot elements and structure. Comparisons are also drawn between Noah and the Greek hero Deucalion, who, like Noah, is warned of a flood, builds an ark, and sends a bird to check on the flood’s aftermath.
  
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MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Nahh, reality is far more interesting. There WAS an insanely massive flood over in the middle east. Think like the Bonneville Floods or the Pacific Nothwest flood that happened thousands of years ago big where inland seas had a glaciar/land dam break. The Native Americans have stories of both, and there is ample geologic evidence of them.

I forgot exactly which region it flooded out, but it was populated at the time and there are non-religous texts recording some farmer who built basically a giant raft for all of his farm animals, and maybe some other people helped and joined. He mostly just got washed out to sea, but got back to land and … yep, religous people turned it in to gross lies to ‘elevate’ their false knowledge.

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- Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Or maybe a genetic memory of when the Mediterranean valley became the Mediterranean Sea (way before humans evolved).
  
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  - MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    lol no. There have been dozens upon dozens of massive flooding events since the Mediterranean Sea has existed. Even many massive vulcanic floods.
    
    Also the homo genus is ~2.5 million years old. Even some estimates for homo sapiens are nearly a million years old.
    
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