I'm watching a program on the History Channel, "
Mega Disasters: Comet Catastrophe." I didn't realize (because I've never done the research myself) that there are around 200 known "myths" of a huge flood, accompanied by a burst/ray of light (which would look supernatural to people at the time), all of which can be traced to the timeframe of 2000-3000 B.C.. The suggestion I see from many other sources is that the Noah accounts are centered at around 2400 B.C.
Is it surprising that there were in fact other accounts of this event? That indicates that there were other "survivors."
It would seem to me that a single supernatural event could instill a new religion/belief system. Once people have faith in something, how easy is it to dupe them into believing that other "supernatural" or "unexplainable" events are the work of a god, even to the extreme case of
inventing stories/specific events to preserve their beliefs?
So if a huge comet in the Indian Ocean caused a huge flood (Noah's flood) and looked like it was "god-sent," where does that leave the rest of biblical accounts of supernatural events?