[Tax-chick]

I was referring to St. Peter’s discussion of the Flood.

However, statements such as the one you’ve quoted are one reason I don’t bother to get overly worked up about the question. I choose to take a certain interpretation, but I’m not going to have a cow if I find I’m wrong, and it doesn’t bother me that people disagree.

[bdeaner]

That's pretty much my attitude, as well. As a scientist myself, however, I am committed to examining the scientific evidence with a degree of objectivity, and nevertheless find, in my experience, that the evidence has consistently supported and strengthened my faith.

With that said, I do believe there was an actual deluge that destroyed much of early civilization and that the Genesis story of Noah is an account of it written in a style that was consistent with oral storytelling at that period in history -- again, a true account, theologically, but written in a different style than contemporary history books, and therefore should be read and interpreted as such.