[CaptainCrunch]

I remember reading about the flood in the ice age. Perceptions of the concept of world wide was certainly different back then because the average persons perception was within square miles of themselves. so a flood that size that wiped out everything within a mans life was perceived as world wide.

I remember about reading about the mis-interpretation of the Red Sea as the Reed sea, where Moses lead his enemies into a swamp that people of feet could successfully navigate, but people in heavy war chariots probably drowned.

The events in the bible were probably loosely interpreted around real world events based of perception and interpretation.