Modern communication and science is able to catalogue natural disasters worldwide. There is little doubt that such disasters accured throughout history and were only recorded in cases where survivors represented such events in ways having been uncovered by present day humans!
So how is it present day humans are inclined to take such ancient records as ways of indicating prophecy for our time whilst ignoring the ever changing face of the god they recognise?
I wonder if our intelligence is our most unintelligent attribute?