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[[Image:Michelangeloflood.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''The Flood'', by Michaelangelo, detail from the Sistine Chapel, 1509.]]
[[Image:Michelangeloflood.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''The Flood'', by Michaelangelo, detail from the Sistine Chapel, 1509.]]
Cultures around the world record a world-destroying '''flood''' in their oral or written histories. Today 60% of Americans accept as true the Biblical account of the Great Flood.<ref>http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040216-113955-2061r.htm</ref> Virtually nothing historical, from writings to civilization to long-living organisms like trees, has survived from before about 3000 B.C., an approximate date given to the Great Flood.<ref>''See, e.g.'', [http://www.ohtm.org/strut99.pdf]</ref>
Cultures around the world record a world-destroying '''flood''' in their oral or written histories. Today 60% of Americans accept as true the Biblical account of the Great Flood.<ref>http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040216-113955-2061r.htm</ref> Virtually nothing historical, from writings to civilization to long-living organisms like trees, has survived from before about 3000 B.C., an approximate date given to the Great Flood.<ref>''See, e.g.'', http://www.ohtm.org/strut99.pdf</ref>
== The Flood accounts ==
== The Flood accounts ==