I don't necessarily believe anything in particular about it, Bill, but I consider it reasonably probable that all those legends of a Great Flood are based on some kind of large catastrophe...or a series of them. It's just a subject I find interesting, that's all.

I don't get how the heck anyone in any present day religion can possibly believe that some patriarch called Noah built a boat capable of holding two of every species on Earth! Yikes! Or how he would have gone about gathering a healthy breeding pair of every single living species on Earth either! Double yikes!!!!

I doubt that even Michael Moore or James Cameron could pull off such a daunting project... ;-) Hell, it would even give William Shatner pause.

If people believe stuff like that, it's just because it has never even once occurred to them to question it....or they're afraid to, because it would call their entire view of life into question.