[MEGoody]

"Very much as the parables of Jesus were meant to be instructive, to inform, to make a point, obviously not to be taken as having literally happened."

Yep, the parables were. But New Testament scripture talks of Noah and the flood as an historical event.

All boils down to what we each choose to believe.

[D Rider]

Ancient text and the bible said that the ark was in Armenia. The problem is that Ancient Armenia was in the mountains of Iran. Which is why the Bible said that the left the ark and traveled from the east into the Mesopotamia plain.

The current mount Ararat didn't even get its current name till the 12th century. That is when the Armenian Christians had the Bible translated into their own language. And since that is the only mountain of note in the area, it became "Ararat." If you read the scripture it says the "mountainS" of Ararat. It is in the mountains, not on a lone mountain on a plain.