> If the Colorado river in Arizona was once a babbling brook through verdant pastures and some 'event' turned it into what it is now, then I would say it has been remade, yet it is still the Colorado.
Well, according to the "all the water was suspended in the sky"-type Creationists, the Earth was remarkably flat prior to the flood. Also, the Grand Canyon was carved out by the flood. As a consequence, there would have been no particluar reason or even *ability* for there to be a Colorado river of any description prior to the flood. It would have been a flat, verdant plain; any creek or stream in the area would have been wholly unrelated to the Colorado that results from the Flood tearing the Earth up and forming the mountains.
Similarly, had there been Tigris/Euphrates rivers prior to the FLood, they, too would have been unrelated to rivers post-flood, since the source and sink for the rivers woudl have been entirely different.
This is, of course, idle fantastical specualtion.
Ummm, I doesn't read nuthin' 'bout no continents a raisin' nor seas a sinkin' nor winds a blowin' (could be I just missed it but...). Some read into scripture what isn't there; That until the flood there was no rain, however, is scriptural.
A hole in your theory, again at the Grand Canyon: As the waters drained away they would have eroded down along existing drainages, not necessarily carved new ones.
Re#50: There is nothing wrong with questioning the scriptures if the goal is understanding. God never commanded us to turn off our minds....In fact, quite the opposite.
Just for the record, I used to be more of a God-directed evolutionist. The more I have learned (and questioned), the more I have moved toward (if not into) the creationist's camp.