We agree to agree to be in agreement.
At one time what we now know to be the Mediterranean Sea was just a wee pond. Around it existed thousands of villages. Then one day the Strait of Gibraltar opened up and flooded the basin and drowned all the wee village villagers almost overnight. I don’t know if it also rained a lot. But it became a sea. Maybe a local zookeeper had a big boat.
A global zoo in an ancient desert...seems likely.
It’s cool that the carnivores behaved themselves...
You need to re-read the account in Genesis. It was indeed a worldwide flood. Every ancient society has an account of a great flood.
At one time what we now know to be the Mediterranean Sea was just a wee pond.
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12,800 years ago with the 100 year long, comet debris bombardment from the Taurid meteor swarm (some meteors where 1 mile in diameter), centered on the North American Laurentide Ice sheet, burning off 4% of the world’s vegetation (leaving the foot thick “Black Mat” across the US, S.Am, Europe, and N. Africa), dramatically lowering Earth’s atmospheric oxygen, causing the total extinction of the Mega Fauna, ushering in the coldest period ever with the Younger Dryas, and raising sea level 400 feet world wide.
The Mediterranean was no longer a pond after that.