Did he really need to save mosquitoes? LOL.

Seriously, the flood story in the bible, like most other stories in the bible, is just a recycled and reworked myth from earlier religions and cultures...

@snytiger6 Can't tell you how many times I've debated this ''flood'' thing with a Jehovah's Witness friend. She'll carry on for hours about the other ancient tales about a flood, etc....her Witness cult believes that the flood's responsible for the Grand Canyon!

@pamagain Tens of thousands of years ago, the last ice age meant the sea levels were much lower. When the ice age ended and sea levels rose, it filled the deep valleys which became the Mediterranean and Red Seas and connecting water ways. That was most likely the origin of the story of a "great flood".

As there was no written language to story got passed down by word of mouth and changed. Perhaps there was an eccentric who built a boat far away from any water and it enabled him to survive the flood, but at best the only animals he may have taken with him was primitive livestock. By the time writing was invented, the story had changed in the retelling a great deal. A huge area just flooding wouldn't make sense to future generations, especially since the earlier generations didn't understand why the floods came in the first place, so the story teller assumed it mast have been a rain that continued for a really long time, because most attempts at early agriculture has dealt with devastation floods due to heavy rain.

So, there may have been major flooding, but it was more likely due to the sea level rising after the last ice age, which flooded thousands of square miles, which at the time must have seemed like the whole world to those who experienced it.

The erosion that took place beneath the mouth of the "Straits of Gibraltar", between Africa and Europe at the end of the last ice age means the Mediterranean will probably remain open to the Atlantic even through another (major) ice age. At least unless plate tectonics moves the continents closer together.

@snytiger6 A beautiful explanation which my friend would never believe. She won't even acknowledge a world older than 6,000 years. She's in a cult.