[bondserv]

But beating a Cold, Rational, Scientific Person over the head with the literal interpritation of Flood and Pre-Flood Creation will place a unneeded barrier between them and Jesus Christ.

Unfortunately there is a New Testament passage that specifically warns against saying what 50sDad posted.

2 Peter 3:5
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

[50sDad]

I have to note at this point that Galileo was very near done in by the Church for supposing that the Earth was round. Clearly, the Pope of that time ascribed to the most literal interpretation of the Word.