I mean top marks for the formatting, but your apologetics are simply awful.
You claim it was no mistake as god doesn't make mistakes, but;
> ..God needed a plan of action to bring creation back to functionality..
That's a plan B and a plan B only happens when plan A (make a perfect creation ) fails. That's a mistake.
Also how can you tell me that;
> ..I also do not believe that the flood was universal, but instead a massively large regional (continental?) flood. The "all" language is rhetorical..
..and then list point 6 that;
> The Bible stories are to be taken seriously.
If if its a global flood its magic that defies the laws of physics and needs almost twice as much water as the whole world contains, and then needs it to all drain away to ,..somewhere magical after 40 days.
OR its a regional flood that dosn't destroy all of mankind from Australia to America, in which case its just a regular flood like happens every winter in some part of the world, and is not magical and is therefor hardly worth mentioning let alone inventing to bonkers idea that every single land animal got on a boat and all the salt water fish just held their gills.
The tale of the flood makes no sense at all and contradicts so much of the bible let alone its major incompatibility with real geology, geography, hydrology, mineralogy, anthropology and archeology that there is more evidence for Santa's grotto than for the biblical flood.