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I agree (although one could default to the underlying Greek and Hebrew texts - if they need to). They've discovered ancient tablets from Assyria/Sumeria back in the late 19th Century. Tales of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim, and the like - that gave a Flood account. Sure, these tablets are older than any known Bible text - but all they confirm - along with the stories from over 100 cultures scattered across the world - is that there was a worldwide flood. If you want an accurate account, read the God-breathed Word.

but all they confirm - along with the stories from over 100 cultures scattered across the world - is that there was a worldwide flood.

I'm not sure they confirm a world-wide flood, but they do confirm that every culture that recounts the tale of the flood had a common origin.

Genesis 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.