I really appreciate your civil reply...
If God did as you claim, then why bother with ark at all. Why not just protect the chosen groups of people, animals and plants while the waters roared all about them.
He was dealing w/ demons, angels turned bad, who were sleeping w/ women and having offspring (Genesis 6:1-4). Violence was everywhere!
If you recall an incident where Jesus was going to remove some demons from possessing an individual, and
they requested to go into a herd of swine?
Apparently, they can inhabit any living fleshly body. (Though not form bodies, ie., materialize, anymore; have you heard of ectoplasm?) All animals not in the Ark would have been susceptible to such ‘use’. Hence, it required their destruction.
And Jehovah God giving Noah those instructions regarding the Ark’s ideal ratios, and knowing that later, the event would be recorded, provides
more evidence that the incident was fact.
You are, as all flood fanatics do, relying on magic as the answer and taking this argument outside the realm or rational discussion.
So, I take it that all those miracles that Jesus performed recorded in the Gospels...you think are fantasy, huh?