The meaning and scope of the Genesis Flood narrative has been purposefully obscured in these days.  The Flood narrative has been relegated to a mere religious myth or Sunday school fare.  However, what people are not told these days is the truth of the Flood narrative.  It is not a tale told by an idoit full of sound and fury signifying nothing.  The Genesis Flood was God's judgement upon a world that had rejected his Word and gone its own way!  Now is the accepted time, now is the day of Salvation.