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Where did you get the idea I am a fundamentalist? There are many texts in the Bible meant to be taken as illustrations and parables and some are foretelling of events to come, and yet others are historical facts...the flood is one of them...the Bible is not meant to be taken all literally or all figuratively...discernment and study is required to be able to distinguish the difference...
Anyone that believes that stories in the Bible like the flood and creation describe literal events is a fundamentalist. For example, science cannot prove nor disprove the virgin birth. Granted, such an event would be extraordinarily unlikely in terms of everything we know in regards to biology, but as we do not have a DNA sample from Jesus, we cannot say it never happened.
In contrast, science can not only say the account of a global flood is physically impossible, we can also say that everything we know about the earth's geology, physics, biology, and genetics tells us it never happened. If there was indeed a global flood and all the animal species were collected on a giant ark, there would be incontrovertible evidence for that flood across the globe - so much so that it would not even be remotely controversial among geologists. Moreover, the evidence for all animal species being reduced to breeding pairs on the ark would be written in the genome of every animal on earth. Yet it isn't. Moreover, if we take a literal account of dating the flood according to scripture, its occurred 4,285 years ago, yet the oldest living tree is 4,845 years old, thus it would have been 600 years old at the time of the flood yet somehow lived through being submerged under a great global flood.
Point being, the flood isn't just a myth, its absolute nonsense.