If you have to ask....

*Why are we even talking about this nonsense? Why focus attention on BS? Did a limited world view shape the story from a regional flood to a worldwide flood? Sure - but the common sense that "GOD" (figuratively speaking) gave a dung beetle tells anyone from the 5th grade on that it's BS." Let's ignore the bible - aside from a few positive life lessons - it's not worth the read.

The noah flood myth is found in many middle eastern cultures and civilizations. There is a fairly wide belief that it might have to do with the filling up of the Black Sea. When the Mediterranean Sea broke through the Bosphorus Straight, the Black Sea would have risen dramatically. They have found campfire rings several hundred feet under the currant level. To folks living around it, such a massive rise happening suddenly would have been explained as God's judgement. Throw in the fact that the ark supposedly landed just south of the Black Sea and the myth starts to have some basis in fact. But earth covered in water,?....no.

A wild fantasy based on seasonal weather in the known world.

No, especially not the Noah's Ark flood, as civilizations, such as the Egyptian, continued right on through it with never a notice! Now, has the Earth indeed been flooded..., well, close...

It was probably fiction or greatly exaggerated naturally occurring phenomena with some lies thrown in. It could probably be like a local hurricane with flooding of the likes we see today where houses are underwater. It could have also been melting ice. It reminds me just like how today the really religious talk about how God is punishing people with hurricanes and tornadoes etc. of a certain area because of homosexuality or whatever else they think is sinful.

I found this:

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The story is nonsensical...I fear calling it fiction, so as not to insult other fictional stories whose authors had the decency to present as fiction rather than absolute truth. A prior commenter posed a question, "where did all the water go?" The gullible will tell you it, was magicked away by their diety. I would like to know, how the oceans ecosystems didn't collapse without a break in the storm for several months, all that constant rain and very little sunlight would impact the various levels of plankton (especially phytoplankton), which are the bases of oceanic ecosystems. What did the krill eat? Did Noah throw the krill he harvested for months out the window to feed the several pairs of Baleen whales that swam around the ark? Please! If you dump a bunch of freshwater (instantly in geologic time) into the salty oceans, it would greatly impact the currents and nutrient upwellings, causing catastrophic marine ecosytem collapse. Maybe in the mermaid copy of the Bible, the faithful merman Moa built an arkquarium and collected two of every kind of marine creature. That way both land and sea life would be spared. Utter nonsense!

Fiction, nothing but Fiction.
If there was, where did all of the water come from, and then where did it all go.

I think there may have been a localized flood that got misconstrued over generations.