[DannyTN]

"I think you should forget the flood only to the extent it was not a global flood and the pagan myth does not make much sense from there. "

Then why did the animals need to be saved? Why spend 120 years building an ark for a local flood? Why build a boat THAT big? It had a capacity of 522 railroad cars. and was taller than a three story building. But unlike the boat in the obvious copycat Gilgamesh which was a cube, the ark would have been stable.

Why do you believe any part of the 5 books of Moses, if you don't believe the flood or the Ark?

[shubi]

"Then why did the animals need to be saved? Why spend 120 years building an ark for a local flood? Why build a boat THAT big? It had a capacity of 522 railroad cars. and was taller than a three story building. "

Exactly the points anyone with common sense would raise. There is no need to save the animals if the whole world would not need to be saved. There was no global flood. The geology shows it. It is an interesting story, but not one that makes much sense spiritually and none at all scientifically.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html