Noah's publisher...
posted by karmajunkie @ 2/21/2006 08:22:00 AM
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2006/02/21
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Oh, Gaddis, are you saying that there isn't a scientific possibility that there was a great flood? I thought you were all about the science, man?
Well, technically, i'm not saying anything--the cartoonist was. But since you ask... while I acknowledge not merely the possibility but the high probability that there was a regional flood which gave rise to the semitic flood myths, especially given their existence in culturally-unrelated but geographically linked civilizations, i am very definitely saying that the particulars of these myths, especially the Noah myth, are wrong. Preposterous, even.
Floods are common events in all cultures; it is unlikely that one flood gave rise to all of the myths around the world. Additionally the symbolism of rain washing away the bad and leaving only the good (i.e., the culture telling the myth) is an unmistakable rhetorical device used to pass on a nationalistic sense of cultural identity, and a superior one at that.
In a millenia, for example, we may well have a new world religion--several, even, in geographically and culturally disparate areas--that cites a myth in which a flood that came from the sea wiped out all the world, saving only those whom some diety found acceptable in its eyes. The genesis of this myth would obviously be the tsunami from 26 Dec 2005, but this fact may well be lost to the ages thousands of years from now. Yet we see nothing supernatural about it (unless you're Pat Robertson or James Dobson, of course)--it is a natural event caused by tectonic shift in the submarine portions of the earth's crust.
Now see what you made me do? You made me kill all the humor in the cartoon...
haha...excellent...preposterous even :-)
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