1. The flood of Noah's day was not a global flood. Why? Because God had not yet confused the languages of mankind causing them to disperse. So the whole earth was not yet populated. It was the "world" (environment) of Noah's day that was subject to a flood.
Sorry but nothing in the Genesis account connects the population of the earth with the flood. Instead you have all this in Genesis 7:17-22 (bold mine):
17 The flooding continued* for 40 days on the earth, and the waters kept increasing and began carrying the ark, and it was floating high above the earth. 18 The waters became overwhelming and kept increasing greatly upon the earth, but the ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19 The waters overwhelmed the earth so greatly that all the tall mountains under the whole heavens were covered.+ 20 The waters rose up to 15 cubits* above the mountains. 21 So all living creatures* that were moving on the earth perished+—the flying creatures, the domestic animals, the wild animals, the swarming creatures, and all mankind.+ 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life* in its nostrils died.
The Bible claims that the earth was covered over 'all the tall mountains' 'up to 15 cubits' (or about 22½ feet / 7 meters).
These is no evidence to back this up.
Genesis 7:24:
24 And the waters continued overwhelming the earth for 150 days.
Genesis 8:3-4:
3 Then the waters began to recede progressively from the earth. By the end of 150 days, the waters had subsided. 4 In the seventh month, on the 17th day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ar′a·rat.
150 days (or 5 months) is also too long for a local flood. How could the Ark come to rest on a mountain if this was just a local flood?
This is just one of many examples of where the Bible is wrong. Sorry rjharris, but there you go. Trying to be reasonable and peddling the local flood idea doesn't work when the Bible contradicts such an idea. Water covering the tallest mountains, with the ark said to be floating high above the earth, does not a local flood make!
