Why so many different cultures in different continents have the myth of the “universal flood”?
Maybe the answer is quite simple . . . because there really was a universal flood. Most scientists do not believe in a universal flood though because they are Darwinian in scope and perspective. Darwinian evolution is based on a belief that the earth is millions of years old. Evolutionary belief requires the need for an old earth, so they can allow for change over millions of years. In contrast, a creationist view accounts for the earth as created by God. There are some creationists that believe in an old earth (millions of years old) and some in a new earth (perhaps 10,000 years old). I’m a young-earth creationist and I believe there was a universal flood around 6,000 – 10,000 years ago. Cultures started trying to make sense of cosmologies (i.e, explanations for how the world came into being) just several thousands of years ago. All cultures today have their antecedents in the past 5,000 years roughly. When cultures were in their most nascent form then, they were all impacted by the s
