The bible is confusing, its been warped, modified, transferred between so many cultures and ages, with mythologies inspired by even older ancient texts, that it’s a fools game to assert much about its mythologies in terms of historical fact. A 2000+ year old phone game. The printing press is only roughly 450 years old give or take.
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I’d be interested in their logic here. Do you have a link?
I think you misunderstand my position. I am not arguing that a global flood actually occurred. You state, quite rightly, that the scientific evidence clearly contradicts a global flood in many ways.
No, I am arguing that the flood, as described in the Bible, would be an act of an evil God.
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Why? He sets up natural law but God is above natural law.
All sorts of incidents in the Bible where God or one of His angels appears before someone, gives them something to do, then it’s written about.
At what point did God show up in Rome to dictate which books belong in the Bible?
Concerning, yes. 
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Yet you have never read the story in its original language. You haven’t talked to people who know the original language. Why are you content with reading a later version of the story in not only a different language, but an entirely different kind of language, and being completely satisfied you, thousands of years later, see the ‘real’ truth? Why should people of faith believe you?
https://washingtonjewishweek.com/41807/why-noah-is-a-story-for-grownups/editorial-opinion/torah_commentary/
Precisely. The story was about the morality of Noah and his generation, not about the morality of God.
What about the morality of Noah and his generation? What was the point of God being in the story?
The story of Noah discusses issues that remain with mankind today. People die, disasters happen and these bring about a period of self reflection and remorse. “I could have done better, I can do better. If I could just have a new beginning…”
Noah got his new beginning, and we can see he was racked with survivor’s guilt. He began drinking. One son wanted to cover up this fact. The second son wanted it to become known; how else could everyone help Noah overcome the situation? (Or, why not make a fool of Noah so the younger generation might lead?) On a much smaller scale, we see these issues still being acted out in families today.
There is also the question of justice. At what point does something become so bad, that justice demands action? Should we wait for the breaking point before we call for justice, or should strict justice begin with small, personal matters? It is pointed out that in Noah’s time that justice was set aside for so long, an entire population was destroyed.
As the story in Genesis continues it is pointed out time and again that societies that maintain sexual discipline seem better able to maintain order and justice. It appears that society relaxing sexual mores starts that slippery slope relaxing other behaviors as well. We should not be too hard on them or ourselves today because balancing justice and mercy has always been a great challenge for mankind.
Because people couldn’t figure out why the comet they had been worshiping for thousands of years just wiped out their entire civilization, so the survivers chalked it up to God being angry at humans for XYZ of the times.
There was probably actually two floods that happened about 7 thousand years apart, and got mixed into the same story over the generations.
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It appears people believed that the idea of justice came from a source with a higher than humans. Jews today still believe that the story of Noah is about justice (I was at a synagogue the Sabbath this was being discussed). The flood was seen as justice taking place on an extremely wicked population.
The discussion among atheists might be, "If justice is not preserved, can an entire population be destroyed? Atheists can do very well discussing the high Biblical principles people of faith attribute to God and the ways of God.
The comet (Encke) that used to cross orbital paths with Earth was considered back then to be the most beautiful and brilliant body in heaven, second only to the Sun (God).
It was the first star visible in the evening, and the last star visible in the morning. It was the Bringer of Light (Lucifer). Then one day, it was cast down from heaven by the archangel Michael (the Moon), deceiving mankind as it plunged the world into darkness and chaos.
And thus, we must beware of having any other gods before the Lord.
For those who do not believe in God, justice is seen as a wisdom humans generally agree upon.
I’m confused, what role exactly does God play in Noah’s ark if not a moral role?
For those who believe there is no God, it only makes sense that there is no God in the story.
For those who do believe in God, God’s presence is in restoring justice and protecting the just.
So, Noah’s ark is then also a story about God’s morality, namely restoring and protecting the just while wiping most of humanity of the Earth
The source of the Biblical flood is either the Burckle Crater in the Indian Ocean, or the Hiawatha Crater in Greenland. Could also be both.
The Jews have always understood that justice to be the author’s central theme of Noah’s story. Change the theme, changes the story and therefore changes the author…and we are no longer discussing a Biblical story.
