Like I say, you have your book. That's all you have. Make of it what you will - that's what's been done for millennia.
You can't make sense of it unless you want to.
Quoting chunks of if gets you nowhere because others can quote different chunks. What do you want to believe?
Alternatively, you can look at what we actually KNOW.
What we know tells us that there's never been a global flood and that all animal and plant life was not destroyed 4,000 years ago. If the flood had happened it would be evident - obvious and unmissable in the geological and biological record. But it isn't.
Search all you like for answers in the Old Testament, but when is been proven to be fiction, you're not going to only find what you want to find. Just pick what you need.
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.