Crazy interpretation of the Flood

[srvfan]

It's just something I've invented, it's not factual, and it's not ahem..."God-breathed".

I was thinking that the Flood could be an "artistic" rendering of a disease's deadly outbreak and the early men's attempts to quarantine themselves from it. You see, if there's another calamity that spreads and kills that resemble the flood, I think it would be something as deadly as an Ebola or an ancient strain of an AIDS virus. Many viruses could transmit from animal to man, and vice-versa. The "ark" was probably a settlement away from civilization where uninfected animals and humans had lived for many years until the virus killed off the population. There could be rains and a series of floods which would kill the people and the animals with weakened immune systems.

Tall tale, isn't it?

[Soyeong]

Why do you think they felt the need to tell a different story if that is indeed what happened?

[srvfan]

Why do you think they felt the need to tell a different story if that is indeed what happened?

Because back then they don't know what a virus is. And by oral tradition, of course some embellishments happen. Hehe.

[steamer2]

It's just something I've invented, it's not factual, and it's not ahem..."God-breathed".

I was thinking that the Flood could be an "artistic" rendering of a disease's deadly outbreak and the early men's attempts to quarantine themselves from it. You see, if there's another calamity that spreads and kills that resemble the flood, I think it would be something as deadly as an Ebola or an ancient strain of an AIDS virus. Many viruses could transmit from animal to man, and vice-versa. The "ark" was probably a settlement away from civilization where uninfected animals and humans had lived for many years until the virus killed off the population. There could be rains and a series of floods which would kill the people and the animals with weakened immune systems.

Tall tale, isn't it?

I never heard of a disease leaving a global fossil record such as what we find.

[srvfan]

Neither did the "Flood".

[Soyeong]

Because back then they don't know what a virus is. And by oral tradition, of course some embellishments happen. Hehe.

Just because they didn't know what a virus was does not me that they couldn't describe its effects. They certainly knew what a plague was.