It's an allegorical account, dummy. Not a history book.So if the flood was regional and didn't last very long, why would Noah need to build a boat with 2 of every animal in the Middle East (since it wasn't worldwide, I assume that only local animals were taken.)No. I study the language, the history, and the culture. It is not a fairy tale, Taz. Nothing magical about it. It is a simple tale of a man facing a flood. Modern English changes the meanings. There is a lot of things Noah and I appear to disagree--but the two things we do agree on is that the flood was not a literal 40 days--and nor did it cover the planet.You simply change the meaning of the stuff you don’t agree with. Might as well write your own fairy tales.