It's interesting that we don't know just where Noah lived before the flood. The ark floated freely for five months, after all, and it is said that after doing that, it came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
How far can a large vessel drift in five months? He could have started out from what's now South America, for all we know.
Another interesting thing is the expression "fountains of the deep." This could refer to radical vertical shifting of the Earth's crust. Maybe what is now the Black Sea was a flat plain before the flood and, like the dead sea, it just sank into the ground.
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