Q: What do you believe about Noah and the ark?
1. It literally happened as stated in the Bible. All humankind was killed except for Noah and his companions on the ark.
1. It literally happened around 2000 B.C.
1. It is fiction, meant to be didactic. (to teach)
1. It is a story that is improbable, given modern knowledge.
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Note: If you’re mormon, the church teaches it as literal history. The prophet Ezra Taft Benson said “While our generation will be comparable in wickedness to the days of Noah, when the Lord cleansed the earth by flood, there is a major difference this time. It is that God has saved for the final inning some of his strongest children, who will help bear off the Kingdom triumphantly.”
http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=89
