Is it possible to explore the idea of a major cataclysmic water event in the past regardless to the fact that the manuscripts have become a religious book ? Or does its implication with a religion somehow put this possibility off-limits ?
Science does not reject an idea because of the company it keeps.
couldn't similar phenomenons have happened on earth and led to a similar result here ?
The reason for the rejection is that there are no similar results in evidence.
It obviously doesn't have to be worldwide lol, since people could have exagerated such an event to the extent it was worldwide.
Who is rejecting the idea of local floods? (Aside from those demanding a worldwide event, of course.)
It is far easier for you, as civilized men, to behave like barbarians than it was for them, as barbarians, to behave like civilized men. Spock, Mirror Mirror