The story was mythologized by storytellers and a long series of scribes translated, mistranslated, and altered the flood myth text. The flood myth survived because copies were stored for millennia in various Sumerian and Babylonian archives. Noah's Relatives Noah's father Lamech, his grandfather Methuselah, and his sons are discussed. Most of Noah's descendents in Genesis 10-11 were fictitious. This chapter summarizes the reconstructed legend and has a minimum of arguments.
Mythical material is omitted.
Transmission of the flood story, Mutually reinforcing errors, and Timeline of the reconstructed flood story. This chapter retells the story as a narrative without evidence or arguments. Additional conjectures are included. 12 Answers to Objections Actual and anticipated objections from my critics are answered. Creationist arguments are answered and impossibilities in the conventional interpretation of the flood myth are explained.