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Most biblical scholars put the flood date, according to the timeline of the Bible, from 2348 to 2304 B.C.. That makes it a bit over 4,000 years old. Egypt had a unified kingdom almost a thousand years before that.

I have never met a Pastor, Reverand, Bishop, etc. that has put forth such a view. The ones I have met typically stress that it's dangerous to read the Bible as if it was written to provide a timeline of historical events. It includes some history, but the Bible's purpose is much greater.

Like I said, name a significant denomination that teaches the earth is ~4,000 years old. Otherwise you're slandering a majority based on the view of a minority. I can just as accurately say that evolutionists believe that man evolved less than 7,000 years ago.

I have never met a Pastor, Reverand, Bishop, etc. that has put forth such a view. The ones I have met typically stress that it's dangerous to read the Bible as if it was written to provide a timeline of historical events. It includes some history, but the Bible's purpose is much greater.

Like I said, name a significant denomination that teaches the earth is ~4,000 years old. Otherwise you're slandering a majority based on the view of a minority. I can just as accurately say that evolutionists believe that man evolved less than 7,000 years ago.

I posted these dates to you earlier, and got a pretty negative reaction, but no better dates.

2252 BC -- layevangelism.com
2304 BC -- Answers in Genesis (+/- 11 years).
2350 BC -- Morris, H. Biblical Creationism. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1993.

So what is the date of this purported flood? Do you have a date, or are we dealing in "rubber band" years (make it up as we go along)?

I have never met a Pastor, Reverand, Bishop, etc. that has put forth such a view.

You haven't been hanging around young earth creationists and Bible literalists. Check out Answers in Genesis.

Like I said, name a significant denomination that teaches the earth is ~4,000 years old.

Most Christians have finally gotten beyond YEC as science showed it to be false (barring the idea that God is trying to trick us), but the most famous date for the flood was calculated by Catholic Archbishop James Ussher.