[Evangelical]

Originally Posted by awareness

Noah didn't navigate anywhere. He was not told by God to even put a rudder on the Ark. Noah and the ark just bobbed around like a cork in the water.

And Noah couldn't know the whole earth was flooded, as he couldn't see the whole earth. He could have tho, if the earth was flat, which is what Noah believed back then. So Noah would look out and see water all around, and believing the earth flat, would concluded the whole earth was flooded, when it was just a local flood. The other side of the earth wasn't flooded. Noah, nor the author(s) of Genesis, knew anything about the other side of the earth. They didn't know it was round.

And, going with the story, the poor ark would have been covered up with birds. The flood wouldn't kill the fish eating birds. They would have a heyday. They would just need a place to land, and roost. And that would have been the ark. Or other lands that weren't flooded.

Daniel and Jesus (Matthew 4:8) also saw the whole Earth because it was flat. But it must have referred to the local area.