““as if to suggest that the whales all died at once, possibly during some cataclysmic tragedy”, Like a Worldwide FLOOD!”
There seems to be a small, logical hole in your premise.
Did all the fish die in the flood?
If the whales were trapped in a inland lagoon, the water would have dried up and left them stranded,......just as the Ark was stranded on a mountain. There IS evidence everywhere of a worldwide flood. There is more evidence of a flood than there is whales growing legs to become modern day cows.
Easily overcome. Certainly, the world being completely covered by water would cause chaos. The water may not have been able to sustain much life for whatever reason. The whales may have been trapped after the water settled in the oceans, the whales my have been trapped. Look a the geological history of most regions and you’ll find that it was all covered by “an expansive inland sea.” Lake Lahontan, which covered most of Nevada, would certainly have trapped large amounts of marine life. It’s probably the whales got there when the earth was flooded 4,400 years ago. It’s also possible people carried the whales or bones to the desert.
There is no logical hole in his premise. All life on Earth perished in a blast of superheated water from deep within the Earth, called “the fountains of the great deep” in the description of the Genesis judgement.
This stuff is real hard for evoludiots to grasp I guess.