was noah's flood a true story, only localized?
was it actually just a huge rain event, or maybe a tsunami? then a few surviving religious folks came up with a story said it must be god punishing everyone? maybe even a crazy animal hoarding guy actually did build a giant ark, for just the occasion?

someone on here did point out that other civilizations did seem to carry on without interruption.
not "true," but "mythologized."
it's possible that it's a dim remembrance of a devastating local flood, exaggerated (as such tales always are) by the addition of details the audience would find culturally significant.

in the same way that the garden of eden story may have been based on a dim remembrance of a time before agriculture, when people lived by hunting and gathering.

interestingly enough, one of the best-supported hypotheses on the subject posits that the two are actually dimly remembering the same basic event - the sometimes catastrophic flooding that occurred at the end of the last ice age as sea levels rose, combined with the permanent loss of lush territory that supported humans before they learned to plant and farm. so the garden of eden would have been about a real place that is now submerged under the persian gulf, and would have had the modern tigris and euphrates, as well as the now-dry gihon and pishon rivers running through it.
possibly, the expulsion from eden was about when the bottom of the basin flooded and they were forced to flee, while noah's flood was about when the seas finally stopped rising. and they could settle down and plant vineyards.
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