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I LOVE the ark discussion because it brings around a great history lesson.

I always start with the basics. The story of Noah and the Ark comes from the middle east. That is accepted fact.
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Next we need to examine historical records (maps, texts, drawings) to determine the size of the known world when the "flood" supposedly happen. When we examine this we gain an understanding that the "world" was significantly smaller at the time of the writing of the story.
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But here's where things get great. You have to go back even further than when the story was written. Because it was written centuries after the fact.

The story of the "whole world" flooding is 100% possible.

Take Katrina or the Tsumani in Japan or the Tsumani in the Indian Ocean.
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If those events happened at the actual time of Noah, the story would have been written that the entire world flooded. It didn't, but to the people who live there and if they didn't have information about a larger world outside of their lives.
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They'd have written it nearly identical to how the Ark was written.

So...did the world flood and Noah save every animal? No.

Did Noah likely rescue all of his animals during a natural disaster that destoryed the area (middle east) that Noah lived? Very possible.
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