On Noah's ark....Were there.....?

There is no reason whatsoever to ume that the flood of Noah covered the entire planet, or that he gathered exotic animals from all over the earth. The Hebrew text could just as easily be translated that the flood covered the entire region (or county, area, ground, plain, etc.), and that Noah gathered only the domestic animals known in that region (two of every domestic animal, and seven of those that were fit for sacrifice). The Biblical story of Noah fits the time frame for a flooding of Mesopotamia and the decline of the Sumerian civilization around 2500 BC. A destructive local flood at that time is described in Babylonian texts, and Josephus records the Jewish tradition that the flood was local. The only reason people believe otherwise is because 18th century scholars tried to tie all the nations of the earth into the descendents of Noah before they understood the linguistic connection between various Indo-European tribes.