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Originally Posted by bytor2112
I watched a Discovery channel program about whether the Biblical account really occurred. They made a pretty compelling case that Noah could not have built the Ark nor could there have been a worldwide flood. There isn't and geological evidence to support the story of the worldwide flood. So, is the account literal or perhaps a retelling of a Babylonian disaster that has been recorded in the Epic of Gilgamesh and other epics?
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There, obviously, was no worldwide flood, as described in the bible, that is a flood up to the tops of the mountains.
If anything, the earth was symbolically baptized by such a pervasive downpour that all the earth was coated with water at the same time, if only for a moment.