Of course not. No rational, thinking person could. It's an obvious metaphor for death and rebirth, whether physical, spiritual, mental, pshychic, or whatever else. HINT: 40 days suspended in water = 40 weeks of gestation. The same goes for 40 years of wandering in the desert. A breeding pair of every animal on Earth would have required a fleet of several hundred Arks.

Nope

No. I didn't even believe this to be a literal event when they taught me about it as a child. The story is filled with utter, complete nonsense. I'm not generally judgmental about people's beliefs, but those who believe in this literally have closed their eyes and brains completely. They literally operate on blind faith. I really fail to see how anyone who has passed a single science or mathematics class could believe this to be literally true. Before you get angry at me, though, let me give you my reasons for saying this. I beg your patience, as it is rather long. Explanation for those who care to read it. ****************** Genesis chapters 6-9 give the story of Noah. Beyond any textual analysis, let me say that there is absolutely no geological evidence of a world wide flood. None. Not one bit. Never happened. Genesis 6:11-20 tell us that Yahweh was grieved that He had created humans, who were nothing but evil. As a consequence, He is going to kill all life on Earth. (Actually, He says He is going to destroy the earth, which obviously didn't happen, but that's the LEAST of the problems here.) Billions of life forms are going to drown because Yahweh is angry at a single species. Verse 15 gives the actual dimensions of this ark. In the King James Version, the dimensions are given, "And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits." The New International Version gives the dimensions in units we can understand, "This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high." Get the dimensions? Less than half the length of the Titanic (which is 882' 9") and only 45 foot high. The idea that 2 of each mammalian species (let alone all other species) could fit on this boat is patently and painfully ABSURD. Absolute nonsense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit#Other_important_cubits Verses 19-20 tell us that Yahweh made the painfully obvious error of only saving the birds and animals that move along the ground. He makes no allowance for fish. Why is that a problem, you ask? Because both freshwater and marine (saltwater) animals require very specific ranges of temperature, PH, salinity, other chemical properties, and trace minerals in specific amounts in order to SURVIVE. If you put a fish in the improper levels of PH, temperature, and salinity, that fish will literally not be able to separate oxygen from the water for respiration. The PH and other chemical properties of the water will literally turn either so base or acidic to the animal that it dies. Other minerals are required for proper metabolism: aka, fish and other aquatic life forms will die without them. The massive amounts of rain (freshwater) pouring into the lakes, streams, rivers, seas, and oceans of the world would literally and conclusively kill off all the existing life forms within them (except maybe some monera). The viability of this story: non-existent. Absolute absurdity. This story was obviously written by someone with absolutely no inkling of marine biology. Note that we haven't even made it past the 20th verse of this story yet. Verse 21 makes it obvious that this tiny vessel also had room for all the food that they and the animals would need. Genesis 7:1 further complicates the size issue by contradiction 6:19-20. Now we aren't bringing just 2 of every species, we are bringing 7 of the "clean" and 2 of the "unclean". Away from the size problems, we simply know that 2 (or even 7) of any species is not a viable breeding population from which the species can be saved, not even with human intervention. It lacks requisite genetic diversity. I'd also love to know how an odd number (7) entered the ark in pairs (7:15), and how all of these animals (which would be millions of species) entered on a single day (7:13). Assuming only 1 million species, that is a rate of 11.6 species per second. Multiply that by 2 or 7 to get either 23 (approx) or 80 (approx) animals per second. How did they get all the species from the diverse continents? How did the koalas get there? The komodo dragn? Absolute errant nonsense from multiple angles. 7:6 tells us that Noah was 600 years old when this happened. Enough said on that absurdity, which is again one of the least problems this story has. 7:12 tells us that this rain fell for 40 days. The sun needed for photosynthesis is now behind clouds for over a month. 7:24 tells us that the waters were upon the earth 150 days. 7:20 tells us that the waters were 20 feet (NIV) above all mountain tops. The vegetation is now dead. Sorry. Couldn't survive it. Nothing to eat, food chain dead, when this ark lands. The vegetarians will starve, if they survive the onsuing hunt by the carnivores. (Note that no aquatic life could survive this, see above.) Mass extinction. Nothing left to eat for Noah and his family. Absolute total nonsense. No logical sense in it at all. Chapter 8 tells us how Noah stayed on the ark even more months, weeks, and days, further exacerbating the problems with food supply there for a million (conservative estimate, but I set it out myself) species plus a large family. 8:20 and 8:21 tell us how Noah sacrificed some animals (more extinction) to praise Yahweh, and how Yahweh was pleased at the sweet savor of burning flesh. Note that the whole story leaves the problem of where exactly all this water WENT or CAME FROM, as matter is neither created nor destroyed. Some willfully ignorant, errant idiots claim that it didn't rain on the Earth prior to this event and what have you, but this event is dated to about 4000 years ago (according to geneology lists given in the Bible), and we know full well that rain has been happening for millions of years. In any event, this amount of rain (to cover Mount Everest, which is 8,848 meters (29,029 ft) high, does not exist in our atmosphere. 12,900 cubic kilometers of water is in our atmosphere, that's it. That's all. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Water/water_2.html Absolute errant nonsense. We finish it all out by a rainbow being given as a sign that Yahweh will never do this again. Rainbows are a result of light wave separation due to refraction. They happen on every planet with water, and are no sign that any deity won't flood a particular planet. Absolute nonsense. These are but a few (just a small few) of the many problems with this story. At best, it is an allegorical myth used to teach a moral. I say at best, because I fail to see what moral beyond, "If you are bad, Yahweh will wipe out all species on the earth in His anger," is taught.

Not at all. My auntie told me she did when we were watching 'Evan Almighty' and it almost killed me. I knew she was religious but i didn't realise she was stupid.

Yes, I do.

god, no. how silly. same with jonah and the whale. whales do not live in warm water of the middle east!

Not in the slightest. The whole thing sounds just so... ridiculous.

Yes I do,I believe the bible is the literal word of God. http://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-literal.html

If you do, I have some really good swamp land to sell you.

Nope. Not at all. There's no point, as every piece of evidence ever gleaned from the world indicates there was never a global flood.

OK, what great fish?

Yes.

Yes, Yes because I believe in the Word of God.

That what the people don't understand is the Sacred Scriptures are ALLEGORIES. The own sacred translators and interpreters tell us the prior... ALLEGORIES. Ninety percent of people ignore about it, that the Allegory is a literal discourse whose literal figure is so difficult to take out if you don't know what the writers are talking about. In other words the Allegory is a discourse whose literal meaning enclose other from so much intelligence, the figured. Now. The Ark of Noah was not a BOAT and the BIG FLOOD is not that what the people think.... WATERS. The Ark of Noah is a air artifact, the one that was given us through an Extraterrestrial Divine Technology this mankind has into the Great Pyramid and the supposed WATERS are the Superior Stratums of Terrestrial Atmosphere... they will collapse in the next 40 years. How I know the prior? I have over twenty years warning Governments and Scientists of Earth about it, but nobody believe me because this mankind was deceived to believe in religious fictions, and you will never accept me as the ENVOY of Constructor of Great Pyramid, the so mentioned Messiah of Jews. No. I am not the Jesuchrist. This man never existed. It is fiction. People has understand that the enormous effort and the hard work of their ancestors to raise the Great Pyramid was not done with the purpose you manifest today that was done for NOTHING.