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OCR: The Bible describes a great Deluge, in which 40 days and 40 nights of rain raised the level of the seas and flooded the entire earth, with the waters receding after 150 days. Until Leonardo's time, theologians had believed that this flood carried shells and fossils to the tops of mountains. Leonardo vigorously disputes this theory and others that claimed that the planet had once been suddenly and completely covered with water.