First you must believe that everybody came through that lineage. A very tall order if you ask me

<throwing_a_spanner_into_the_works>what if I told you that Noah never existed?</throwing_a_spanner_into_the_works> the story is great! lot's of lessons but it's quite unlikely that animals would have been kept in a boat above the highest mountain in water and survived the thin air. but it's not a pointless story to tell.

Quite mind-boggling. Whereas I believe that Noah existed, I wonder how he was able to fit all those Animals into the Ark. And how did the Hyena curb it's hunger pangs while sleeping beside the goat?

Somalis?
Gypsies??

let's assume that the hyena hung around for 40 days without food and after that.. it waited until all antelopes had multiplied before starting to eat. Leopards, cheetahs, lions... ngojeni... huyu mtoto ni wangu! ngojeni next year!

A few misconceptions about the bible
1. it's not a single book! it's a library of books written over a number of centuries/millenia. it's a work of literacy. do you think paul meant that his letter sent to Philemon via epaphroditus would end up in the canon? he may have not even remembered the words of that particular letter coz he wrote so many to so many people.
2. that the bible is an accurate historical book and it's contents are timeless. the writers extracted materials for their cultural context

That said - I am a christian and I will read the stories of Noah to my children.

What spanner?

What was the highest mountain and how high was it?

This question was addressed on the last Apologetics

I think most of our problems are not solved by our inability to give answers, any answers, to our simple questions like names and height of highest mountains.

This is hardly "science".

yeah... we used to be told the same. that in the evening you could actually see him if you got home late. I think it's a narrative that came the 'Wandering Jew' legend possibly brought to us by the catholics.

...give us one free miracle and we'll explain the rest