The Creationist Follies

[Odin]

IIRC the original Mesopotamian flood myth, going by the Sumerian king list, seems to correspond to no flood obvious in the archeological record. The king list starts with a series of mythical kings, followed by "then The Flood passed over", and then is followed by actual historical rulers, the start of the list of actual historical rulers starts around 3100 BC, which seems to correspond archeologically not to a natural disaster, but to a major shift in Sumerian society in which dominance by Uruk is replaced by feuding city-states and rule by the priests is replaced by military strongmen.