[There's making stuff up and then there's making stupid stuff up. The entire thread is disturbing....they really believe there was no rain before The Great Flood.]

The people of Noah's day had never even seen rain, so the idea of a flood was completely foreign to them. But Noah was known as a good man, and what's sad is that no one listened to him, though he was known for his goodness and wisdom.

He really did try to warn them, too, but for them to acknowledge he might be right, they would have had to make a change in their lifestyle of working for immediate and pleasureable rewards, such as money and material goods and possibly even pick up a hammer and work hard on something where the end benefit was not immediately apparant. In the end they just continued doing what they were comfortable with.

I believe in the story of the ark as 100 percent true, yet is also a startling parable for today's times.