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   From: FREEtheJWs@this.NG   
      
   "VoiceOfReason"  wrote in message > So we have this   
   selection of flood myths from the Sumerians, China,   
   > Siberia, Lakota and Navajo.  If we respect their traditions equally,   
   > and accept that they are all literal accounts of an actual flood, then   
   > that would mean that numerous groups in different parts of the world   
   > *survived* a massive flood.  That alone would refute the Biblical   
   > account of Noah's family being the only survivors.   
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   And in those days the local area people lived in WAS the whole world - to   
   them!  They had no idea other continents existed.  An Indian in what was to   
   later be called Arizona would have never dreamed of dark skinned people in a   
   place later called Africa.   
   --   
   PQ....   
   "We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing   
   lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So   
   primitive   
   and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people   
   and   
   guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.'"   
        -= Paul Provenza =-   
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)