Christian answering questions.

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Of course, there was no "world-wide" flood.

Theists make these claims that they do not taking everything in the bible literally, yet they do in reference to the flood. Why? Because how else is the ark of any importance?

The ark is not important at all, sadly. It is merely another primitive literary allusion.

Back in the ancient, primitive times, what was known as one's area of existence was understood as the "world". So if a particular area had a great deal of rainfall and the area flooded, that was considered a "world" flood.

Simple as that.