Regardless of what has been discussed on other threads....I am speaking to someone that has grip on scripture and the details. Again go to www.answersingenesis.com or take a precepts course on THE BOOK OF GENESIS. I guess it would be easier for those that don't take the time to study to just accept that it is "parable like" even though the two have nothing to do with each other. What do you do with the rest of Genesis.....like the GLOBAL FLOOD, I suppose God meant a local flood, not a world wide flood.
"What do you do with the rest of Genesis.....like the GLOBAL FLOOD, I suppose God meant a local flood, not a world wide flood."
Please. The so-called 'GLOBAL FLOOD' was nothing more than the Mediterranean Sea finally overflowing the Hellespont. An immense, tragic, large event - yes. An epic event to be retold for centuries, esp. given that it happened to people who were totally uneducated about earth sciences? Yes. A flood that completely covered all land mass? No.
It's been mathematically proven that there isn't enough water on this planet to completely cover all the land, although the global-warming alarmists and Creationists would have you believe differently.
It's also provable that if one calculated the surface area represented by 2 of every single species of animal and plant (why does the Bible ignore plant life? All plants would've drowned in a 40-day global flood!) alive during Noah's time and applied it to the specs of the Ark...well, the Ark comes up short in being able to store every animal.
Unless, a few animal & plant species were taken on the Ark for the local flood and have since EVOLVED into the differing species we have today? :)