Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20151002041329/@comment-3581997-20151031033455

Because different cultures can have the same story those myths an legends help inform us of things that did happen. For example, we know that there was a world flood shortly after the dawn of most established societies, around the year 6500 BCE. We also know that a volcanic irrruption near Egypt in the year 6000 BCE would have cause strange migration of animals, fire from the skies and various other "plagues". Those aren't soft science stories either, we can carbon date those events. Stories of those events are passed down by word of mouth from those who originally witnessed them, those stories then get absorbed into various religions that pop up and often are made to slant into whatever the priests of said religion were selling to help enforce their relevance. My advice is to trust the Bible about as much as FoxNews, it is likely it happened all the same, but don't trust for a moment the context it is being given to you.