Hypothetical for Scientists

Isn't there something about AV's argument that reminds you of Steven Wright's old line: "I woke up one morning to find that everything in my apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact replica."

Hmmm, thas' a puzzler! And a right good one!

Considering that the BIble is blissfully unaware of a NEED to clean up the Global Flood (the authors knew even less about geology than most Christian Literalists do) and so they didn't write anything about it...oops I mean to say "God". Just put it in place of the phrase "authors" in the above sentence).

So, let's see. COnsidering we have now left the realm of rational and entered into funtime fantasy land, let me hazard a guess:

Noah started to clean up after the flood but found that his broom was unable to push 10 trillion tons of mud into nice ordered segregated layers of sediment alternative by random energy regimes, so he called Michael who was on leave for a week from Heavenly Duties. Michael was having a spat with his roommate, Gabriel so he told Noah that Gabriel would be glad to shovel some sediment around, but then he "forgot" to tell Gabriel. So later on at the bar, when Noah saw Gabriel all like down at the end of the bar chatting up these two chicks, he was like "Nuh huh! You dihnt'! I spent all day shoveling sediments into order layers all over the planet trying to clean up this global flood and YOU said you wanted to help me but you didn't even show up!"

ANd Gabriel was all like "Not in my face beeyotch! I didn't say I wanted to clean up the Global Flood and I most certainly didn't want to sweep up sediments into an orderly set of layers indicating anything BUT a global flood!"

And Noah was all like "talk to the hand cuz the face ain't listenin'!" And Gabriel was all like "Oh no, you messin' with the wrong angel, I ain't no Cherubiim who just fell off the turnip truck!"

And then Noah picks up a bar stool and slams it into Gabriel's face and knocks every other tooth out.

So in the end Jerry Springer had to come and clean up all the Global Flood.

I think if you have trouble finding this in scripture, you might just have to "keep looking".

the story of Gilgamesh is the exact same instance; the flood really happened, it just wasn't world-wide.

This makes Genesis a plagiarized and reimagined copy of the much older Epic of Gilgamesh. It doesn't make either description accurate.

Unless we want to proclaim Gilgamesh as divinely inspired and infallible as well.

Except that we have copies of the Epic that date from much closer to the time they were first written than any of the "infallible Word of God". I've even seen such a copy with my own eyes.