This is actually how the flood story is depicted in the Bible. There is a watery chaos in the beginning, and God causes the waters to pool in one place so that dry land appears. The flood sees this process reversed and then repeated. And so it is a reboot of sorts, although (to extend the analogy) with the old operating system – humans and animals – then simply copied across and reinstalled on the wiped hard drive.
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