Is There Another Interpretation of the Young Earth Hypothesis?

Some have proposed that the text is only describing a local flood. To support this, they can appeal to the difference between what we know to day and what was known when genesis was written. The key fact for our presentation is that the hebrew term translated earth in these texts in the flood narrative, is arats, which just means ground or land. It doesn't imply what we would think of as a planet. They apparently did not conceive of the earth as a sphe rand. If you'd like to hear what we had to say about the bible and the flat earth theory? You can go back and listen to episode 68.