text: There is scientific proof that there was a large flood in Noah's part of the world. What I find interesting is that in an ancient manuscript, called "The Epic of Gilgamesh", the main character, aforementioned, spoke of a great flood, just like Noah's, and fleeing with his family and many animals in a boat.  What's even more interesting was that this manuscript was written 1500 years before Noah's account was written. \nThis just shows how a catastrophic event passed down, by word of mouth, to many generations. It's probably unlikely that a flood covered the entire earth, because when the Bible mentions the world, the actual known world at that time was a tiny spot in the Mesopotamia region.  That could have been flooded entirely, who knows?\nI am also Catholic...