12,000 feet up a mountain begs the question where the water went.
Anyone care to integrate the volume of a shell with an initial circumference of 25,000 miles and a final circumference 12,000 feet above the initial circumference? That is a pot load of water.
If it were truly Noah's Ark, then I'd say the water went wherever God wanted it.
Evaporation due to global warming? LOL
I'm only half joking about that. I wonder where sea level would rise to if all of the ice melted at both poles?
Could humans survive the sort of sustained temperatures that could cause such a melt? Hmm...doubt it.
Ok, so if the sea couldn't rise 12,000 feet - even if only temporarily, then how did those boats (if that's what they are) get up there?
Tidal wave?
Perhaps sea levels were already much higher then, than they are today, and something caused them to temporarily rise to where those artifacts now rest.