Stories can grow in the telling. But it also sounds like you are not allowing yourself to consider the possibility of a global cataclysm. If you automatically ‘reinterpret’ the documentary evidence to say what you want it to say, then you never really gave it a chance in the first place.
Merry Christmas,
Liberty1970
Given that the vast majority of the world’s human population lives within 200’ of sea level, “everything” in human terms doesn’t require the magical appearance and disappearance of enough water to cover Mt Everest.
200’ is enough to pretty much hit the reset button on the human race.
I do believe that global catastrophes are possible. I’m also a firm believer in people’s general inability to accurately perceive and relate what they have seen.
Noah’s family didn’t have enough float time to see every inch of the earth’s surface. As far as they could see it was nothing but water, they couldn’t see Mt Everest from the middle east.
They reported what they saw, what they didn’t see, and the logical conclusion they made from their observations.
(And just as an aside, at the end of the last ice age, sea levels rose about 300’)...