rod03801: Saying "I dunno" actually puts you ahead of the curve. When I started looking into these things it wasn't from the approach of do I believe it or not. The approach I took was, Was it possible for it to happen. Did it have to be a supernatural event, or was it physically possible for a flood like that to occur, and was it possible to get enough samples of animal life on something the size of the ark to account for all of the animal life we see today. Another question I needed to answer for myself was, Given what we know about the earth early on, and what a one supercontinent land mass might look like, was it even possible for a flood like that to cover the entire land mass... was there enough water, where did it all come from, etc etc. And by the way, the research I did was for myself, I wasn't trying to collect material for persuading anyone else.

To make a long story short, I eventually concluded that yes, it would have been possible for the event to literally occur as the Bible said. Why? Because the topography of the ocean floor and of the land mass back then was likely more uniform than it is today, which means it wouldn't have taken near as much water as it would today to cover every square inch of land mass. And evolutionists can be thanked for showing us how a relatively few samples of animal life could have easily multiplied into all of the species we see today, through what they call speciation. I meant to go find and show you a chart showing how the mastodon branched out into an almost unbelievable number of different species, it was a few years ago but maybe I can find it again. Anyway, seeing as how I found that information on an evolutionist website, I suppose there is no reason to not believe it... they aren't exactly in the business of trying to support the creationist viewpoint, if ya know what I mean.

There is more, but maybe this is enough for you to understand that maybe (I'm just saying maybe) a world wide flood and an ark carrying animals is not as farfetched as it sounds.