LanDroid wrote:Please detail and justify the morality employed by the Christian Triune Deity known as Yahweh/Jesus/Holy Ghost during the Great Flood Genocide survived only by Noah's family and "two of every kind." Oh and the basis for the moral necessity to create the rainbow while you're at it...
From the Last Glacial Maximum to the dawn of the Holocene Era, the sea level rose by 125 metres, as shown in this chart.
Such major changes, flooding the Persian Gulf and the North Sea, turning the Black Sea from fresh to salt, etc etc, are well remembered in mythology, although over long periods the detail of the myth changes in oral culture. Gilgamesh from Babylon also contains the flood myth, as does Agastya from India. Agastya is the same word as Argo and Ark, illustrating the etymological links across the Indo-European group of languages.
The increase of population density during the early Holocene was supported by technological progress, leading to the emergence of settled agriculture, metal and writing. This transformed culture also brought a transformed moral framework of society, with the old system of reverence for knowledgeable elders replaced by the power of swords and money.
The Noah Flood Myth serves as a statement by the knowers of the moral failure of the emerging value system. It reflects how broad swathes of coastline were obliterated, and uses this as a moral parable.
ETA: Here is a picture of the effect of the flood on India. Recall that Pleistocene India was settled as a coastal civilization, so it is probable that population density was highest in the flooded areas.