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Would someone please ping Fr. Paul Robinson and ask him to post on this topic?

Yeah, Father Paul Robinson, contrary to the words of Sacred Scripture that describe the Flood as inundating ALL the earth, to the point that the highest mountains were covered by water, holds to the "Local" or "Regional" Flood theory, with his rationale being that there could never be enough rain to cover the entire earth.  This begs the question that there isn't a firmament holding waters away from the earth, and it ignores that fact that the fountains of the deep also burst forth.  Father Robinson also ignores Sacred Scripture's description of the "Deep", which were the waters beneath the earth.  Not to mention that Local Flood is absurd on the face of it.  In the many decades that it took Noah to build the ark, he could have just packed up and moved out of the region.  Why was there a need to take all the animals aboard?  God too could have just caused any animals that would be in danger of extinction (i.e. those that were to be found ONLY in the region where the Flood occurred) to migrate, as there's at tradition that God had the animals come to Noah's ark.  How is it that the ark remained afloat for 40 days before Noah even opened the window and the flood waters remained for 150 days?  If a Local Flood, it would have dissipated in hours just due to the water leveling.

Basically Father Robinson's Local Flood theory reduces the Flood to a fairy tale.  That's contrary to anything believed by any Church Father.  It's heretical.  Father Paul Robinson is a Modernist heretic.  I do not make this accusation lightly, but the Holy Office and St. Robert Bellarmine would have condemned him as a heretic ... and rightly so.  He's as bad as any of the Modernist Jesuits that I tussled with for years (8 years of Jesuit education between Jesuit High School and Jesuit University).

Genesis 6: 18-24

18 For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.  19 And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.  20 The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

21 And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.  22 And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.  23 And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.  24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

So how do I read this as Local Flood without undermining all of Sacred Scripture?  You can't, unless I don't understand what the meaning of "all" is and what the meaning of "is" is.  I guess that the Hebrew language was very confusing, where many means all (the consecration), and evidently all means many (Genesis Flood).  Hey, I have an idea ... just flip the words in the Hebrew Lexicon.  And once you turn the Flood and the Creation account into fairy tales, what else in Sacred Scripture is a fairy tale, a metaphor, an allegory, etc.?  It undermines the authority of all Sacred Scripture.  That is why I saw dozens of young men at Jesuit High School lose the faith, primarily due to the undermining of Sacred Scripture by the Modernist Jesuits.

As far as the Joshua story and the sun stopping, based on some of the research I've done and someone else who did or researched the math....We know a circle is 360 degrees and before this event each year was 360 days and a degree was measured for each day.  Long story short...after this event is why we have 365 days per year now.