text: noah and the flood? this link is a story from the national geographic about the most updated scientific theory on how the story of noah's ark came to be.  i'm a catholic christian, so i don't interpret the bible literally.  therefore, this theory coincides with my faith easily, and i've accepted it as much as scientists have.  what about you?  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/ax/frame.html there is scientific proof that there was a large flood in noah's part of the world. what i find interesting is that in an ancient manuscript, called "the epic of gilgamesh", the main character, aforementioned, spoke of a great flood, just like noah's, and fleeing with his family and many animals in a boat.  what's even more interesting was that this manuscript was written 1500 years before noah's account was written.  this just shows how a catastrophic event passed down, by word of mouth, to many generations. it's probably unlikely that a flood covered the entire earth, because when the bible mentions the world, the actual known world at that time was a tiny spot in the mesopotamia region.  that could have been flooded entirely, who knows? i am also catholic...