Genesis 6:5-8

In Genesis Yahweh warns of the impending flood coming, so here is how it is recorded in The New American Bible: "When the Lord saw how great as man's wickedness on earth, and how no desire that his heart conceived was ever anything but evil, he regretted that he had made man on the earth, and his heart grieved. So the Lord said: "I will wipe out from the earth the men whom I have created, and not only the men, but also the beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air, for I am sorry that I made them. But Noah found favor with the Lord." My response: We know that people will free will because they had chosen wickedness away from God, wickedness so fell and foul, that Yahweh decided to send a flood to wipe out wickedness for this creation has failed. It makes me wonder if God is a spaceman going through the universe planting colonies of intelligent beings that exercise free will. When God comes back later to visit them and assess their progress, if they are too wicked, they are wiped out. If they are good or part good, they are allowed to live and propagate. Notice when Satan and Lera rule a planet, only a few find favor with the Lord, and most are so wicked, militantly so, that they warrant death. It is noted in footnote 6, 5-8,22, that there are two sources for this flood stories, that certain inconsistencies are glaring, and the Biblical flood story is similar to the ancient Mesopotamian flood story. I believe that the Bible is canonical, despite its inconsistencies and internal contradictions, and borrow from more ancient mythologies. It is all part of the mystery of life that too often is not seamless and airtight. Let me quote these passages from the Holy Bible (KJV): "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made men on earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both men and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord." Note that if God were all-knowing, all-loving and all-powerful, how could he make a free willing race of depraved creatures that he did not anticipate in advance, that they likely would turn so toxic, evil and dangerous, they must be eradicated lest evil take over the entire planet, or even the galaxy? This is another mystery without satisfactory answer. I worry less about whether God knew in advance what he had to do and that they were doomed to fail, but it is possible that he could not predict their outcome with utter certainty, but when they become so spiritually polluted, they had to be taken out to preserve the universe.