The Flood

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>>MCGILL

>>"The Bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. 

>>These stories are retreads from stories before. But, tell a Christian 

>>that--No,No! What makes it doubly sad is that they hardly know the book, 

>>much less its origins."--Isaac Asimov Scientist


DICK JONES

>Asimov was not a scientist when he wrote crap like this. Asimov

>was on indefinite leave from job as a biochemist for many years

>and was a popular writer, not a scientist in any form. Retreading

>has nothing to do with truth. The origin of a book has nothing to

>do with its truth. Asimov unfortunately in his culture imagined

>the majority vote of scientists determined the truth.


MCGILL
Can you explain why the Biblical story of the flood is so similar to the 
Babylonian myths
and Sumerian myths, which existed at the time the Genesis was written?

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'Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said,
'I don't know and I don't care.'"

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