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Originally Posted by Fealiks
Similarly, if you were to assess the claim "Many years ago, the world was flooded by an angry God", you could use scientific methods to prove that there was, indeed, a flood around the time of the claim. You could therefore confirm the validity of the claim "Many years ago, the world was flooded". However, you would be unable to confirm the validity of the claim "Many years ago, the world was flooded by an angry God". Such a claim is unknowable, hence my agnosticism.
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There is archeological evidence of a flood around the Black Sea area at the appropriate time (town remnants at the bottom of the Black Sea, etc...). It looks as though the Mediterranean overflowed into the Black Sea, maybe because of a glacier melt or shift. The flood definitely did not cover the entire earth, but was pretty big.
There are also comparable myths from other cultures to support this such as Gilgamesh and a Roman/Greek myth that I can't quite remember at the moment...I think Zeus had something to do with it.