You are correct the great global flood as we imagine is refuted, as there is no evidence at all of its existence. I for one would love to see some hard evidence, but none is forthcoming and everything says that it did not happen. However, I will postulate another interpretation or potential hypothesis.
As the whole world was in a specific geographical area during those days as no one then knew the Earth was spheroid. (In fact people were executed horribly by the Church for expressing ideas other than the doctrine of Heliocentric view in latter times and I am sure similar dogmas were present thousands of years earlier due to ignorance or fear). The weather then was most likely different to today in the location of the middle East with evidence of the desert being much further back from the Meditteranean. Monsoonal rains could have flooded the area which they called the Earth, which I think may be a possiblility. However, a more likely scenario is as follows, and it will be a combination of various natural events, of course due to "forced orbiting" and solar insolation. You may need to research the Milankovitch cycles on this one.As the Earth was also coming out of the last ice age(interstadials) of the holocene period, which we still live in and part of the Quaternary period, there was much more moisture around which would have resulted in a deluge of biblical proportions and possible in more locations around the globe. There is evidence of such glacial meltings forming huge lakes in the United States. The following is an example and similar scenarios would have been global but local in their impact.
During the last Ice Age, a finger of the Cordilleran ice sheet crept southward into the Idaho Panhandle, blocking the Clark Fork River and creating Glacial Lake Missoula. As the waters rose behind this 2,000-foot ice dam, they flooded the valleys of western Montana. At its greatest extent, Glacial Lake Missoula stretched eastward a distance of some 200 miles, essentially creating an inland sea.
Periodically, the ice dam would fail. These failures were often catastrophic, resulting in a large flood of ice- and dirt-filled water that would rush down the Columbia River drainage, across northern Idaho and eastern and central Washington, through the Columbia River Gorge, back up into Oregon's Willamette Valley, and finally pour into the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Columbia River.
The glacial lake, at its maximum height and extent, contained more than 500 cubic miles of water. When Glacial Lake Missoula burst through the ice dam and exploded downstream, it did so at a rate 10 times the combined flow of all the rivers of the world. This towering mass of water and ice literally shook the ground as it thundered towards the Pacific Ocean, stripping away thick soils and cutting deep canyons in the underlying bedrock. With flood waters roaring across the landscape at speeds approaching 65 miles per hour, the lake would have drained in as little as 48 hours.
But the Cordilleran ice sheet continued moving south and blocking the Clark Fork River again and again, creating other Glacial Lake Missoulas. Over thousands of years, the lake filling, dam failure, and flooding were repeated dozens of times, leaving a lasting mark on the landscape of the Northwest. Many of the distinguishing features of the Ice Age Floods remain throughout the region today.
Together, these two interwoven stories of the catastrophic floods and the formation of Glacial Lake Missoula are referred to as the "Ice Age Floods."
In conclusion, it would seem that similar glacial events certainly had an impact in Europe in the late Quaternary period, with flooding in the preliminary interstadials. This would indeed account for the perceived flooding over a massive area as reported in our Bible. The flooding was world wide, it was localised but massive but did not raise the oceans. Those reports to us via the bible were from our nearest ancestors the Neanderthals: by rejecting them it is possible you may be the same as rejecting a long lost brother. How far you go back in accepting evolution is your choice; your acceptance of love is yours only. No one can deny them Gods love, despite the eons gone . Everything is in balance: that is gods gift to us.
One tear drop can raise an ocean: that is also the gift from God.
yours
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