I read the Bible the way it was meant to be read, which is sometimes literal, sometimes poetic, sometimes symbolic, sometimes figurative and so on and so forth.
And herein lies the problem of almost every creationist: there are many, many people who read the bible in a very different way than you do (including not taking Genesis literally), yet they, like you, claim to read it in the way it was meant to be read. What evidence do you have that your reading of the bible, including your reading of the flood story, is the correct one? Because to me, "reading the bible the way it was meant to be read" sounds a lot like cherrypicking...
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