Flood accounts do not equate to a worldwide deluge where even the mountains are submerged and an ark is needed to save a selection of people and animals in order to repopulate the earth......It did not happen, the story is impossible.
The story was probably embellished from a localized flood event/hero legend what a family saved their themselves and their livestock under difficult conditions, to the amazement of the surrounding tribes.
You are missing the whole point. Have you read these flood accounts? You claim Genesis is a borrow account and then you say the other accounts were simply local disasters. Well if Genesis was recorded as a worldwide flood that wiped out the whole race it certainly did not borrow from a local washout account. The other accounts are not recording local washouts either. Where did all these accounts come from all over the world? They could not have been borrowing all from each other unless they started with a single source about a singular worldwide event. Your contention is lacking the most basic logic.
Genesis is not an account of an actual world wide flood, it is a work of fiction....the ancients loved their stories, they loved a good yarn over the campfire. Stories got told and retold and embellished over time and retelling.
''Various archaeologists suggest there was a historical deluge between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago that hit lands ranging from the Black Sea to what many call the cradle of civilization, the flood plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The translation of ancient cuneiform tablets in the 19th century confirmed the Mesopotamian flood myth as an antecedent of the Noah story in the Bible. In an interview with the London Telegraph, Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and author of the recent book The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood, described one way the tradition may have emerged:
There must have been a heritage memory of the destructive power of flood water, based on various terrible floods. And the people who survived would have been people in boats. You can imagine someone sunbathing in a canoe, half asleep, and waking up however long later and they’re in the middle of the Persian Gulf, and that’s the beginning of the flood story.
Yet tales of the Flood spring from many sources. Myriad ancient cultures have their own legends of watery cataclysm and salvation. According to Vedic lore, a fish tells the mythic Indian king Manu of a flood that will wipe out humanity; Manu then builds a ship to withstand the epic rains and is later led to a mountaintop by the same fish. An Aztec story sees a devout couple hide in the hollow of a vast tree with two ears of corn as divine storms drown the wicked of the land. Creation myths from Egypt to Scandinavia involve tidal floods of all sorts of substances — including the blood of deities — purging and remaking the earth.''
You can continue in your chosen ignorance if you like. I read there are over 200 Flood legends from all over the world with a similar number of people and all the animals being saved by them. The stories generally have eight people.
Floods happen world wide, which does not mean that there was a single world drowning deluge. There is plenty of evidence for the former, nothing for the latter. Plus after the ice age, the most probable source of flood stories, people were living in small family units or tribes, hence if a group of people saved themselves from a local flood event, it was a family unit.
