re: The Scientific Establishment Is Finally Starting To Take Intelligent Design Seriously

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Sure, but the story makes no moral sense whatsoever if it were a regional flood.

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Well (a) you're entitled to your own "moral" conclusion, I guess. (b) Flood stories abound in nearly all protohistoric cultures, not just the Mesopotamian subsets. (c) It seems glacier derived inland lakes/seas released at various points resulting in prodigious flooding (GLOF) which would have devastated anything in the path. (d) Civilization in that timeframe often coalesced in low-lying areas abutting rivers/streams. So settlements would have been particularly vulnerable to GLOF disasters. (e) For any survivors, these catastrophes would seem like the end of the world.