I haven’t had time to read all these attempts at debunking…. But this comment reveals ignorance of the account:
if you had read the Genesis account, you’d
know the animals didn’t have to be “gathered” (what a straw man!); they
came to Noah.
As if God was not involved in other aspects of the Event!
According to Genesis…
Who gave the warning, 120 years in advance, that a Flood was coming?
Who gave Noah the instructions, including the Ark’s ideal dimension ratios?
Who brought the waters down from above, and opened the “vast springs” below?
Who closed the door?
Who gave the writer of Genesis the information that the tallest mountain (
at that time) was covered by 15 cubits of water?
And after the event,
Who opened the door?
To opine God did nothing else, is unreasonable.