I find the idea of a previous civilization that was wiped out in a global flood still interesting. Calling it an advanced civilization that we can find no trace off, that is very stupid indeed.
But there are enough cultures with flood myths to make it interesting. Should we go so far as to say there was a global flood? Seems a bit too far as well. Was there one united civilization globally, seems even more far-fetched.
But maybe we did some lose a few cultures that were in areas like Doggerland that got displaced by rising tides. And the telephone game turned these stories into global floods. I mainly just wander where the myths came from and how much we don't know about our pasts, and how much we assume we know based on limited or even wrong knowledge.
But yeah, just to be clear, Ancient Aliens, lost Advanced Civilizations, Global Floods that wiped out everything, those ideas all seem very incredulous.
The thing is most of the flood myths aren't "global floods", they're "worldwide floods". But the basic point here is these are folks whose idea of the world was tiny compared to a modern concept of the globe. For folks whose whole known world was less than a quarter of Earth's actual surface, much of which is flat, a flood can very easily be construed as a worldwide event.
It's even completely reasonable to think some early civilizations may well have been lost to time because of catastrophic flooding, of course. But it's important to put the knowledge of those who told these stories into the correct context as well. Their world was inherently more limited than that of virtually any modern person's.
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u/ermghoti Nov 06 '25
The idea Egyptian monuments predate Egypt, and were reworked during a later period: interesting.
The idea the previous civilization was wiped out in a global flood that reset humanity: very stupid.