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[colton]

I think a lot of the old testament is apocryphal, nothing more.

I'm with you on that. I just read through Leviticus, and it's hard for me to believe that many of those regulation were not the invention of man. And, if it helps, Brigham Young is with us...as documented in the book "Mormons and the Bible", he felt that parts of the Bible (esp. Old Testament) were "baby stories", written in a way that the unsophisticated people of the time could understand but should be supplanted by modern science as appropriate. (Other LDS leaders have disagreed with that view. See my review of that book, here: https://www.amazon.com/review/RWPDA7LCZWYSM/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0195109716)

 

[PearlWatson]

But why would God want to flood the whole earth and then erase all evidence that such a universal flood happened? I'm with One Brow on this one, or at least partially--I believe in Noah and the Flood, but I don't believe that it was a universal flood.

What evidence would there be if there was a "universal flood?"

 

[One Brow]

What evidence would there be if there was a "universal flood?"

A mass extinction less than 6000 years ago? There would be detritus from all the bodies. Ancient civilizations should have been interrupted and replaced with completely different groups. Remnants of valley mud on the tops of mountains or in deserts; large deposits of rock, mud, bodies, etc. would have been spread across the world.

 

[PearlWatson]

A mass extinction less than 6000 years ago? There would be detritus from all the bodies. Ancient civilizations should have been interrupted and replaced with completely different groups. Remnants of valley mud on the tops of mountains or in deserts; large deposits of rock, mud, bodies, etc. would have been spread across the world.

How would we distinguish the rock, mud, and skeletal remains we see all over the world from the rock, mud, skeletal remains we should see all over the world?

 

[Jason]

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