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In reply to the discussion: Creationists Try to Outsmart Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Great Flood and Climate Change [View all]Hestia
(3,818 posts)Oral traditions get confused throughout generations and usually a writer will "clean up" the narrative, due to different belief system or disbelief, ("It just couldn't have happened that way." At the end of the book Roots, Haley did say that the oral traditions never were sullied like they were when & where writing appeared. To the victor goes the spoils including history and religious teachings.
From what I have been told by neo-Sumerians (it is a part of their belief system) is that the animal & plant DNA was saved. It was never physical animals that were taken on the ark. How in the world would anyone do that?? Who's to disprove the DNA aspect? If you really think about it, it could have happened that way and it makes much more sense in the long run. Some say that goats, cattle, sheep (domesticated animals) didn't appear until after the flood - genetic tampering? Do you know for 100% sure? Do I know 100% for sure? No, but again, it makes sense to me.
Gilgamesh was a Giant but I wonder if it actually means a great person, i.e. giant in spirit, giant in abilities, etc. Giants are all over the place in the bible, but there is so much guesstimation and outright wrongness there, that that book really can't be used for anything historical. One example, there is a 3 day incubation period where someone goes into a cave/underground to meditate and afterwards is considered an initiate of the order - Lazarus and Jacob anyone? The word "lord" meant "mister" in their contemporary language, had nothing to do with a title. It was an everyday term like "san" in Japanese.
There are over 30,000 cuneiform tablets that have yet to have been translated - who knows what else is on those tablets, other than shopping lists or gifts to the Temple?
As always, YMMV