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   From: unclewobbly@talk21.com   
      
   > I would have to assume, that it is because the simple answer, throws the   
   > whole story into the dust bin of mythology where it belongs.   
      
   I don't think it was entirely mythology... as with all great stories they   
   start with an element of truth... there is evidence of great *local* floods   
   in the area of Mesopotamia in antiquity. The black sea has recently been   
   found to have several flooded cities near the shore. Certainly when they   
   were flooded, the inhabitants would not have known it was not global... when   
   grandad was telling his story of how he saw it when he was a boy, it   
   "covered the whole world" as the open-mouthed children gasp in   
   astonishment... the firelight twinkling in their wide-eyes. They came to   
   believe it, grew-up believing it and passed on the story to their children,   
   someone wrote it down and it suddenly is established as a fact.   
      
   Same with this red sea thing... the essence of the story of Moses leaving is   
   unquestionably based on Akhenahten who took his followers and left (those   
   left behind being exceptionally grumpy about this) and established a new   
   religion based on the worship of a single deity - the ahten (sun)... put   
   2000 years worth of fireside story telling on this one and you end up with   
   moses - who was allegedly raised as an Egyptian and rose to high office -   
   taking a good proportion of the populace with him and leaving the   
   established ways having been alerted to the prescence of a single deiety (by   
   a burning bush - a nice twist grandad!). There are too many similarities;   
   I'm convinced.   
      
   http://tinyurl.com/6r93e   
   http://tinyurl.com/7yzr6   
   http://tinyurl.com/6lbh4   
   and just to play devil's advocate...   
   http://tinyurl.com/6adeg   
      
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