Joseph wrote: Why would anyone care whether the soil of the land of Noah was never again to be flooded? ... Who would care about the land more than the people?
I don't see that Faithful used the word "soil." As I have said here before, local flood advocates believe that the words "the land" in the Genesis flood account refer to "the land" that was then inhabited by Noah and his family. Here and elsewhere in the scriptures the words "the land" refer to more than a plot of ground. When we today refer to "the land of Egypt" are we speaking only of the soil of Egypt, or are we also referring to all the animals and people who live on that soil? We are, of course, referring to the soil, animals and people of the land of Egypt. The same was true when God promised Noah that a flood would never again destroy the land he then lived in. Yes, God was then referring to the soil which the flood had just covered. But He was also referring to Noah's descendants who would live on that soil and become part of that "land" for thousands of years to come.
Joseph, who seems to think the Bible only uses the words "the land" to describe a plot of soil, and who has also shown that he knows how to use a concordance, might try using one to look up the word "land." If he does he will find that Genesis most often uses this word in the way I have just described. For instance, Genesis 12:10 tells us that "There was a famine in the land." Now, there could not be a famine in the soil. Unless this verse is telling us about a bunch of hungy ants, beetles and worms. So in using the words "the land" in this passage of scripture, and many others Joseph can find in his concordance, it is clear that the writer of Genesis often used those words to refer to a specific geographical area, together with the people who inhabited it.
So when God promised that a flood would never again destroy "the land" which a flood had just destroyed, He was referring to far more than a plot of ground. He was referring to a community of people who would in future years inhabit that ground, many of whom would be Noah's descendants.