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Your claim that you know infallibly what evidence must be left after a one of a kind instantaneous worldwide flood and withdrawal, and that the evidence of flooding at the same time around the world doesn’t count doen’t particularly impress me.

Evidence of floods is easy to see. Just check out the channeled scablands of eastern and southern Washington. They were created by a series of floods backed up behind ice dams around the Idaho panhandle. The lakes backed up to about Missoula, Montana, and when those ice dams let loose they made a fine mess. Scientists can see that mess and date those floods.

There is no corresponding scientific evidence for a more recent and much larger "global" flood. Besides, such a flood would have removed the evidence of the earlier and smaller floods.

You claim "the evidence of flooding at the same time around the world." Please cite your evidence. And according to biblical scholars, that evidence for a "global" flood should be about 4350 years ago, not at the Cambrian some 500 million years ago or some other far distant time.

Yes, indeed, evidence of floods is easy to see—when the floods are of the common variety, ie: a finite amount of water pushing around a lot of stuff then draining off. But if you know what the evidence of a global flood, such as is described in the Bible looks like, then you stand alone among men.

You must know what it looks like since you claimed that you don’t see it. The scientists who take as their hypothesis that the Bible is factual find themselves in a dark place trying to dope out where the water came from how it moved, what its effects might have been, where it went etc. In fact I’d love to see the computer that can progress a model, not to mention the admiration I’d have for the guy who programmed it.The difference between common flooding and a world killing deluge would be many orders of magnitude greater than the difference in the complete specfication for a Wright flyer and an SST.

“Face it, the global flood about 4350 years ago is a religious belief, and cannot be documented by scientific evidence.”

Oh HELL yeah. I don’t think anybody claims they’ve got hands down proof. But that is the fascinating thing to me. I believe it happened exactly as described and that it is simply a matter of figuring out how.

I believe the sheer volume of water involved changes the dynamics of of the thing entirely, though. Consider how much earth, the main fingerprint of flood, such a volume could hold in solution, added to the likelihood that it never really stopped moving.