Flood accounts do not equate to a worldwide deluge where even the mountains are submerged and an ark is needed to save a selection of people and animals in order to repopulate the earth......It did not happen, the story is impossible.
The story was probably embellished from a localized flood event/hero legend what a family saved their themselves and their livestock under difficult conditions, to the amazement of the surrounding tribes.
But DNA studies are showing a lot of evidence for the human race coming from a single couple and then a wipeout and then re-population. Maybe you don't believe the evidence gathered from DNA.
The DNA evidence suggests that a bottleneck in the human population occurred about 70,000 years ago wherein we may have been reduced to as few as 10,000 individuals on the planet.
"This conclusion is very surprising, and I fought against it as hard as I could," Thaler told AFP.
That reaction is understandable: How does one explain the fact that 90 percent of animal life, genetically speaking, is roughly the same age?
Was there some catastrophic event 200,000 years ago that nearly wiped the slate clean?
