(Gen 7:10 KJV) And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
(Gen 7:11 KJV) In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
eh, I should have read further down ... you beat my post (#48).
I know you'll go ballistic but noah was a pakistani farmer living in the indus river delta region. He built a 3 layer log raft to ride out a coming river flood. Instead he got washed out to sea during a hurricane(15 cubits = a 22 ft deep storm surge), carried around for a couple of weeks on the CCW gyre of the arabian sea, then back onto a sand bar. They have to wait for low tide to wade to the true shore. He goes back to farming, even parties naked once. His illiterate goat/sheep herding descendents(7 generations later) jazz this old family story up whilst sitting around a campfire in iraq. 7 generations a young boy named ABRAM swallows the whole myth; hook, line and sinker...