96 and still hanging in there! Move over methusala, you've got competition. Heard an abductee on the Art Bell show say that the alien told him they live about 10,000 years, then can either spirit-transfer to a new body(like trading in your old junker car for a newer model)or join the spirit world entirely.....Ok, the REAL story of noah, a hurricane survivor, is hidden right there in the account. A cubit is somewhere between 15" to 18", thus water 15 cubits deep is between 18.75 ft to 22.5 ft deep, PERFECT for a hurricane storm surge. How did he know the water was that deep? His orchard trees were 15 cubits high, the flood waters just covered their tops....Out in the middle of the ocean(gulf of arabia)the curvature of the earth makes it SEEM like the whole world is covered with water, esp from a low LOG RAFT. When the LOG RAFT washes up back on the pakistani beach(from the CounterClockWise gyre because it's in the northern hemisphere)it first hits an outer sand bar at high tide. Thus they have to wait until the water assuages, ie, low tide, to wade back to the true shore. Noah and family go back to his farm/orchard but virtually all the neighbors were swept away in the hurricane....Also remember that this is 7000 years ago and weather patterns were different. Now they hit Bangladesh/east coast of india but then a major cat 4 or 5 could have hit the Indus River delta area much like katrina did to New Orleans last august.....That then is the true story of a hurricne survivor that passed from generation to generation of pakistani goat/sheep herders, getting embellished with each telling. 4 days of hurricane rain become 40 days, a pakistani beach doesn't sound too impressive, so Mt Ararat(if they had known about Mt Everest, noah's raft, now SHIP as big as the Queen Mary, would have landed on top of IT)....On and on it went, bragadoccio/fish story/MYTH, a pearl of lies built around the "sand grit" of a true, but believable, story. Finally a young pakistani boy named ABRAM swallowed the whole MYTH, hook, line and sinker.....MYTHS : vampires = final stages of rabies. greek gods = merely "super" greeks. Unicorn = african rhinocerous. On and on they go....What MYTHS do you believe in? Have you ever had the courage to critically examine the myths you've always taken for granted?