Cosmic rays streamed through Earth's atmosphere 41,000 years ago

Re:Cosmic rays streamed through Earth's atmosphere 41,000 ye... by chuckadams on Sunday April 21, 2024 @12:21PM (#40106942)

When you’re a farmer at the dawn of civilization and the river valley your entire village has lived in for centuries floods, it’s like the whole world has flooded. It’s a basic matter of perspective, it doesn’t require world-wide acts of magic to explain.

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Re:Cosmic rays streamed through Earth's atmosphere 41,000 ye... by jessriedel on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:30PM (#40108018)

I'm not claiming it requires worldwide acts of magic to explain. I'm saying that worldwide stories are evidence for a worldwide floor, not evidence against it.

Consider: if there were few other stories of great flood around the world, we would take this as evidence against a worldwide floor. So if there are such stories, it's evidence for.

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Re:Cosmic rays streamed through Earth's atmosphere 41,000 ye... by chuckadams on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:22PM (#40108892)

I am guessing “flood” got autocorrected in each place…. Well I’m arguing the opposite: that the multiple flood myths across civilizations simply means that floods happened a lot.

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