Samuel Lee said to Marty Leipzig:
David Rice:
You are just being silly. LaHaye and Morris, besides being
certifiable madmen, are not competent to "research" these
issues. Indeed, anthropologists who have studied for decades
in the field and in the class room would never be so bold
and arrogant as to make the claims these ignorant Creationists
(redundant) make.
Most Native American populations did not have any "flood
myths." Some of the surviving ones do not. And it is even
probable that the few tribes that did have "flood myths"
did not until Spain landed in the new world and spread
the myths. By the time anthropologists got around to asking
tribes about their myths, they had been Christianized for
a century or two.
Samuel Lee:
SL> Nuff said...?
David Rice:
ROTFL! "I broke his arm and he's in the hospital. 'Nuff said."
Marty Leipzig:
David Rice:
The ones that do probably aquired them from their Christian masters.
Marty Leipzig
David Rice:
Case in point: the Miwok / Inneko tribes. They are roughly
grouped into four tribes, three of which had early Christian
contact and the forth of which were geographically seperate.
Guess which three have "an ancient flood myth" and guess
which one doesn't.... you have four guesses. :-)
The Hookooeko of the Wiwok group have an "ancient flood myth"
where four days or rain caused by Coyote-man so he could
capture a spouse. He then planted four bundles of feathers
in the ground, from which the four tribes sprung up. If the
Creationists desire "equal time," I'd be happy to teach this
in science class.
... "I have exsanguinated you: dry up and blow away." -- DRice
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SL> Tim Lahaye and John Morris have done some exhaustive
SL> research and published it as _The ARK on Ararat_
SL> (1976 time-life). They list 58 distinctive flood
SL> myths attributed to N. American Indian Cultures.
ML> No, as it's bullshit and you're still no where near
ML> substantiating your claim that "all" cultures have a
ML> flood myth.
ML> You conveniently forgot to mention the Govi nomads I
ML> mentioned earlier. They have no flood myth, so that
ML> alone invalidates your specious claim. The fact that
ML> there are many other civilizations that do not also
ML> have a flood myth merely further debunks your claim.
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