Noah's flood (Global or Local) ?

the Holy Qur'an saves the revelations within the Bible. This demonstrated in the story of Noah's Flood.

When seen in the light of modern knowledge, the Biblical description of the Flood as a Whole is unacceptable for the following reasons:

a) The Old Testament describes the Flood as a event which covered the entire world.

b) The Flood of Noah described in the Bible is estimated to a date in which a international Flood could not have occurred

The Sacerdotal narration states quite precisely that the Flood took place when Noah was 600 years old. According to the genealogies in chapter 5 of Genesis.

When we relate this to the age of Adam along with the age of Abraham in the Bible (Genesis 11: 10-32) , we calculate the Flood would be situated in the Twenty-first Twenty-second century B.C.

Knowledge of history during this time period would show it was a time of prosperity with civilizations such as Egyptian's Eleventh Dynasty and Babylonia's Third Dynasty at Ur in which we know for certain there were no breaks in these civilizations. Therefore to make such a claim that everything on earth was destroyed as the Bible claims (Genesis 7:21) is unsupported.

On the other hand, the Qur'an gives general details which do not promote any criticisms from a historical point of view.

In The Qur'an 11:25-49, Sura 71, and 26: 105-115, we see God inflicted on communities guilty of gravely infringing His Commandments. Whereas the Bible describes a universal Flood intended to punish ungodly humanity as a whole.

The Qur'an, in contrast, mentions several punishments inflicted on certain specifically defined communities. This is viewed in 25: 35-39,

"We gave Moses the Scripture and appointed his brother Aaron with him as vizier. We said: Go to the people who have denied Our signs. We destroyed them completely. When the people of Noah denied the Messengers, We drowned them and We made of them a sign for mankind. (We destroyed the tribes) of Ad and Tamud, the companions of Rass and many generations between them. We warned each of them by examples and We annihilated them completely."

Sura 7, verses 59 to 93 contains a reminder of the punishments brought upon Noah's people, the Ad, the Tamud, Lot (Sodom) and Madian respectively.

This is the method of how the Qur'an saves the Bible in the narration of the Flood of Noah, as in the case of Saving the Bible from Darwin, the case of the Flood could also not be verified until centuries after the Prophet Muhammad.