At the heart of the topic is scientists attempting to prove or disprove the Noah story. Why you would think that such a topic should be devoid of text that generated the story is amazing.
I believe this was a story about a possible flooding of the Black Sea around 7,000 bce or so.
It is believed it is possible that this event is related to, or the origin of, the Gilgamesh flood story (which is certainly the origin of the biblical flood story).
But the specifics of the story as recorded by human writers later are hardly to be considered 'facts from the word of god'.
Once you start using something like 'the bible' as 'word of god evidence', I have nothing left to add. I believe you invalidate your own position.
I believe there is ample evidence that the 'bible' is a collection of writings written by many humans over a long period of time. That collection was put together in a *very* political fashion. And there is not one chance in a million that the bible is the 'inspired word of god'.
In my humble opinion.
I assume this puts our discussion at an impasse.