The canonical account says that it was rain, alongside something a bit more mysterious: “When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.”

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twofish 7 months ago
Yes. Red Tail Hawk explains the physics of this water eruption.
To be fair, there's a lot of stuff in the Bible that should be taken literally however there's also a lot of stuff in the Bible that needs to be taken with a grain of salt. You might want to check out the declassified 1940s US Air Force research on the subject and the work of Charles Hapgood, Chan Thomas, Ken White, and Graham Hancock.
By the way, the lesson you are conveying in your OP is great insofar as it encourages people to seek answers. This is the lesson of the rich man being unlikely to pass through the eye of the needle. It's about open mindedness and paying the necessary costs to find answers.