The controversial great flood of the bible and Noah's Ark are not mythical. There was a real flood large enough to be called a worldwide flood, and a real vessel. The Ark existed, not exactly as described in Genesis, but as changed by Ptolemy I of Egypt who ordered the first translation of the Bible. The design of the ark is based upon the Star of David. This geometrical form was not developed as a symbol, but was used as a practical design of the ark's keel and later for the invention of the Greek alphabet. It was also used in the layout of Stonehenge about 2600 BC. The story of the Biblical flood begins with the rising of the water level of the Atlantic Ocean, about 29000 years ago when the narrow isthmus connecting South America to Antarctica failed creating the Drake Passage. This most significant world event ended the last Ice Age and precluded forever their return. It caused the mass extinctions. Global warming, still happening, resulted in the melting of the ice cap and raising sea level, setting up the Biblical flood and today, the resounding controversy over its cause. It left us a legacy of an earthquake and volcano prone Pacific basin. Considerable blame for the failure of science to recognize the correct timing of the opening of the Drake Passage falls directly on the false theory of Continental Drift and Tectonic Plates. These theories were never scientifically proven, but were eventually adopted by mainstream geologists by consensus agreement. Proving the contrary position that the earth's crust is not in separate, moving pieces was impossible until recently with the introduction of satellite GPS measurement showing conclusively that it is in fact stationary. The Genesis flood was the same as the flood of Mesopotamia, described in the Epic of Gilgamesh, written about 3200 BC, wherein an ark is built to provide survival of a few chosen people in a story plot similar to that of Noah's Ark. It was possible for me to deduce the true size and shape of the ark from Genesis alone, but the additional descriptive material in Gilgamesh clinched the design. The story of the Ark and the Star of David does not end here because the ark was a real, functional vessel of the ancient world. When Alexander the Great ended his world conquest in 333 BC and was returning to Babylon from the Indus River in India, his army built a large fleet of these to transport a third of his forces. After his death, a short time later, his empire disintegrated and the ark fleet was inherited by Admiral Nearchus who managed to sail them to Egypt where he proclaimed himself Pharaoh, Ptolemy I. A detachment of his troops stopped on the way up the Red Sea and built a tomb for Alexander and his friend and lover, Hephaestion in the remote Arabian Desert. The existence of the tomb was kept secret to deter looters by emplacing a false tomb in Alexandria. The real tomb was built to represent an ark that would someday, according to Egyptian belief, carry his mummified body back to his home in Pella, Macedonia. About a thousand years later it was discovered by Arabs who regarded the mysterious building of unknown origin, as a holy place, known today as the Kaaba, their most revered shrine. It has managed to escape identification as an ark because people don't yet know what an ark looks like. I conclude the book with a chapter on the physics of Hurricanes, Whirlpools and Tornadoes, needed to confirm my belief of the identity of the spiral engravings on Malta, in the path of the flood waters. The ancient spirals resemble whirlpools, and their existence is strong proof of the occurrence of a Mediterranean flood. The mysterious phrase in Genesis, Fountains of the Deep also needed explanation. I was successful and in the process, I developed a new theory for the Coriolis force, widely and improperly used in meteorology. MORE www.biblicalflood.org