Theres no need to talk scientists, those familiar with the documentary hypothesis will be aware of the blending of stories particularly in early Genesis. I will present four significant inconsistancies which show either there was two floods or two stories. Either way the story cannot be taken serriously with these mistakes...
WHEN DID THE RAINS START
http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/ge/chapter_007.htm
7 So Noah went in, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark ahead of the waters of the deluge. 8 Of every clean beast and of every beast that is not clean and of the flying creatures and everything that moves on the ground, 9 they went in by twos to Noah inside the ark, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. 10 And seven days later it turned out that the waters of the deluge came upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the springs of the vast watery deep were broken open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And the downpour upon the earth went on for forty days and forty nights. 13 On this very day Noah went in, and Shem and Ham and Ja´pheth, Noah’s sons, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with him, into the ark;
According to 7-10 the rains started 7 days after they entered the ark. However 11-13 say the rain started the same day they entered.
HOW LONG WAS THE FLOOD ?
http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/ge/chapter_007.htm
17 And the deluge went on for forty days upon the earth, and the waters kept increasing and began carrying the ark and it was floating high above the earth
24 And the waters continued overwhelming the earth a hundred and fifty days.
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3 And the waters began receding from off the earth, progressively receding; and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lacking
So was the flood 40 or 150 days long ?
HOW LONG WAS THE EARTH COVERED
4 And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ar´a·rat. 5 And the waters kept on progressively lessening until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
WHEN DID THE GROUND BECOME DRY AFTER THE WATER DISAPPEARED ?
13 Now in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, it came about that the waters had drained from off the earth; and Noah proceeded to remove the covering of the ark and to look, and here the surface of the ground had drained dry. 14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried off.
According to 13 the water disappeared 601/1/1 while 14 says 601/2/27.
