Is there any good evidence that Noah's flood happened? Or

Had a passing listen to a Viasat History documentary once about how the idea of a great flood happening long ago isn't exclusive to the old testament but is common among pretty much all cultures and coincides around a time when some supermassive lake someplace around canada spilled out into the oceans due to melting icecaps, causing rising sealevels and floods globally. Haven't looked into this so have no idea of the validity, but that might be an interesting starting point.

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>>3065883
Well, not with the entire world under water, and not literally two of every animal sans some unicorns that were late to the game, but certainly mankind did experience sudden and massive sea level rises, and as every civilization was birthed near a major water source, most certainly experienced devastating floods, and for a few, it probably was effectively their entire world. In the end, however, much like giants, it's a common fear involving some real life experience, writ large.

There's several parable stories, but none really share a specific time frame and are often derived from one another. Noah's story, for instance, is pretty clearly taken from the much older Epic of Gilgamesh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utnapishtim

>most of planet covered in water
>many cultures have myths about rising water

It's not really proof of anything

Jewish people are considered one of the smartest ethnic group in the world. Do they feel any shame towards their ancestors' creation of the bible and the abrahamic religion? They have so many scientists and atheists, one would think they would recognize the stupidity written in those books and apologize to the world and specifically to the Christians and the Muslims for misleading them.

The arc is on mount Ararat

There is plenty of evidence. But for unbelievers no evidence is enough.

>>3066752
>presents none of it

what did he mean by this?

>>3065883
Shilling? For what?

Many culture's have a flood story, or a story about the world changing after a natural disaster (Fimbult winter)

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>>3065883

There was probably a flood due to the end of ice age to flooded many coastal civilizations.

However, it happened more than 6,000 years ago and wasn't a complete submersion of all land so you can throw Biblical literalism out the window.

>>3065883
There are legends around the world that there was a flood. With some actually sounding a lot like the Noah's flood story like the Babylonian variation and the Hawaiian native story that a man named Nu'u and his children built a boat with and survived the flood. And a creator God sent a rainbow after he landed on an island.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu%27u

>>3065883
The entire world is covered by layers of dried mud, dried sediment, called sedimentary rock, in which is found perfectly preserved fossils of creatures who remained intact, died suddenly, and were never disturbed. Recorded by every single ancient civilization on the planet. Detailed in the inerrant authoritative Word of God.

No, no evidence at all.

>>3068632
>you can throw Biblical literalism out the window.

You can, fool.

Wise men do not.

And the flood was about 4600 years ago, not 6000.

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>>3069140
This

Not a global flood. There's evidence that local floods in Mesopotamia happened, and these probably influenced the Epic of Gilgamesh, and later the Bible.

And whole "every culture has a flood story" thing is a meme. Many cultures do, but most cultures also settled in places near water, where flooding happened regularly, so stories about flood is meaningless. Many of the stories that exist in places that were colonized are also obvious adoptions of the Biblical story (or modifications to somewhat similar existing stories) as told by missionaries.