[blam]

"If you can imagine the world covered to the tops of the mountains, you must also imagine the water draining somehow. I would be interested in understanding where the water went."

Maybe not to the top of all mountains.
I was thinking that I've tied a number of catastrophic events to different times and imagery from the bible...and I've always thought that the flood described in the bible was probably the flooding from the end of the Ice Age (or the Black Sea flood) but, that doesn't quite do it.

I'm looking for lots of rain (40 days & 40 nights). The number forty is a mistranslation that should read 'many.' But a lot of rain none-the-less.

[RightWhale]

The number forty is a mistranslation that should read 'many.'

Yes, 40 is considered an excessive amount, a metaphor. Essentially infinite.