Considering the Epic of Gilgamesh gives the story of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; ">Utnapishtim and a global flood far older than the old testament, and yet very similar in detail, I'd say it's something that goes beyond biblical veracity and just into probable ancient history.</span><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Son of Witz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org">Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Dec 29, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Lee Berman <<a href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">severiansola@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Gerry Quinn: There are ruins below the water's surface on Earth too. Does that mean the<br>
>> Bible story of the Flood is literally true?<br>
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> Yes, it does.<br>
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</div>No Lee, it doesn't indicate the veracity of the Bible.<br>
It does *potentially* indicate a deluge drowning an older civilization, but there are hundreds of Deluge Myths, why single out The Bible? Why not the babylonian myths?<br>
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