We can ask ourselves not "how does God do this or that impossible or illogical thing in the story" but instead things like "who was this story's audience" and "what did listeners gain from writing and hearing this story", and "why did this story's message carry over across centuries of time when other stories from the time were lost or forgotten".

Even amongst the “high churches” (orthodox, various monastics, Catholic, etc.), this is generally the religious outlook. Almost no Christian outside of American Protestantism is concerned over mechanical realities of the literal plot involved. Quakers such as myself readily put forth that we don’t think of the Bible to be taken at face value, but instead approach these things with a more gnostic approach.

I think this isn’t clear to many Americans, and that most people on this subreddit are Americans. So the “debates” often turn into a dull matter of like, Richard Dawkins fans (or whatever) explaining to us how the story of Noah’s Ark is impossible or whatever, as if any religious people outside of the Kentucky creation museum ever even thought that it was possible in the first place.