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ORIGINAL: MasterCaneman
As I said, it's the Mother of All You-Shoulda-Seen-The-One-That-Got-Away stories. It started out as a story about some guy who was out on a boat and a flood happened, and after a couple hundred retellings, it got sexed up to make it more interesting. Along comes some whacky guy with that new-fangled and scary 'writing' thing, and next thing you know, the crappy little tradesmans boat became a battleship-sized lifeboat with two of everything inside.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Some evade the problem by saying the flood was followed by a period of rapid continental uplift such that the water that used to cover the Earth now fills just the ocean basins.