Coming next: creationist interpretation of this in a Biblical flood narrative with reference to "opening up the fountains of the deep".
These generally co-occur in water rich areas, such as low-lying coastal regions or flat, regularly inundated river plains. Thus, flooding in relatively populated early centers of civilization is likely to be a common experience across human cultures, purely by the geographical reality of proximity to water.
Furthermore, recording such events is natural in a literate civilization since the destruction a nontrivial event might cause against food, shelter and population would affect all echelons of society.
Being in many cultures isn't evidence against the story, as it seems you are trying to imply.
It could simply mean there was one huge flood and lots of cultures recorded it.
I am aware there is no scientific mechanism to cause a worldwide flood, this is explicitly about divine intervention. (i.e. a miracle, not creationism pseudo science).
However, since there are reasons other than reason and evidence for people to believe in a flood, no amount of reasoning or evidence will change those beliefs, so I propose we focus on the tantalizing science fiction implications instead.
It worked for you, didn't it? It also worked for me. That's two of us. There are more. Keep the uh... "faith".
Also note that floods don't simply go in a straight line from A->B. In practice because towns are built on the more stable land, what you'd see happen is pretty much the worst possible scenario : the water would surround cities, first making most roads unusable (non hardened ones because they become mud, hardened ones because some parts of them collapse). Then the water level would rise until nothing remains above the water level. (I've got some experience living in Northwest Europe, and every 20 years or so you get introduced to this problem firsthand)
Of course, even though the affected area was huge, it was still a local phenomenon.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
That said, if there never was such a flood there would likely be evidence that it never happened.
What would evidence that there was never a global flood look like? One example might be "lack of a global species disruption in the fossil layer". But that's just absence of evidence again.
I think there are some predictions you could make there. However every single one of them is just so far divorced from what we observe that they aren't even worth enumerating.
"Proof" is a complicated word. People typically take it to mean "slam-dunk, 100%, without-a-doubt proves the case." But little in science ever works like that. Math, sure, where you can prove things analytically. But when trying to "prove" things about the universe, you have to collect bodies of evidence, and see how well that evidence matches expectations.
So, when you go out looking for something, and despite your best efforts, cannot find it, then that may not "prove" that something did not happen, but it is good evidence in support that it did not.
Despite centuries of scientists looking hard for evidence of it (and knowing what kind of evidence they are looking for, adn being able to get it), they've been unable to get any. That's as strong evidence of the inexistence of a phenomenun as you can get.
1. Why only those? Isn't it global?
2. This comment has no value without an academic paper to reference. If nobody has studied it, this is just hot air. If someone has, you are expected to link to it in these lands.
3. It's "Africa". Not "affrica".
Given Christianity has roots in Judaism and Judaism probably has some roots in Sumerian religion, I'm not sure if you could say that. Religions evolve from other religions, and in a geographic area, are likely to have common ancestors.
If so, can you give some examples?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Bible#Chall...
(by way of illustration: most of Robert Parker's Spencer novels are set in Boston. You could prove via archeological evidence that the buildings and streets mentioned in these stories exist - they weren't invented out of whole cloth - but this wouldn't prove Spencer himself ever existed much less did any of the things claimed about him in the stories.)
The flood myth is very persistent but we need to have in mind that humanity was tiny back then. So even a 2011 Japanese like tsunami could be the flood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide
The Storegga Slide might also have been, at least partly, responsible for the disappearance of Doggerland under the North Sea:
Sorta like how a lot of them support Israel for the sole purpose of instigating the end times.
Eventually we will opt to dismantle the Earth to build more habitats, but it'll be more like peeling an onion layer by layer. By the time we are peeling 700 km, we'll encounter the water.
I'm not sure why you think creationists are dumb people. Even scientists don't agree with all theories in the science books.
So yeah, maybe there was an event where fountains of the deep opened up. Some people believe dinosaurs were killed because after that a change in atmosphere provided less food. Others believe a comet killed them. There is and isn't proof for both theories so maybe there is truth in both.
Our creation / existence is one big riddle everyone tries to solve different.
A good scientist knows other theories may come and change the landscape. So you need to keep an open mind.
That's why I posted the link to the theory of the deep fountains. I think it's a good theory explaining some events in the past.
Is it true? I don't know. But we also have no proof for evolution. But the theory of evolution works very well to explain a lot.
The only science that has proof is math.
(I'm not a creationist by the way)
This is incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_exp...
>>But we also have no proof for evolution.
Then you must have missed a lot of pretty much everything going in science in the last ~300 years. If ancient bones are not "scientific" enough for you, look at bacteria, which evolve(yes,evolve, not magically change due to divine intervention) in a space of days,not millennia.