[GonzoGOP]

As far as being hit over the head by Niagara falls or the like, I have never heard anyone make that claim.

I'm just pointing out the flow rate necessary to flood the planet in 40 days. Lets say you have a hole 1m x 1m x 8,848 km and want to fill it with water in 40 days. That's 9 meters of rain per square meter every hour for 40 days. Over every square meter of the Earth. The worst thunderstorms can only dump .05 meters of water in an hour. I've been on the great lakes in a thunderstorm and I wasn't sure the big ferry was going to hold together. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a modern steel freighter 222m long was sunk by one of those storms in only a few hours. For your theory to be true a wooden boat must survive a storm 450 times worse that lasts for 40 days. Even if the mountains were only half the height they are now that is only 225 times worse than the worst thunder storms for 40 days in a wooden boat. That is not a leap of faith, but a suspension of reality.

[GonzoGOP]

Correction that is 8,848 meters not 8,844 kilometers. I just wanted to flood the world not boost it into orbit :)

[21twelve]

I have enjoyed your posts with the various estimations. Just a minor point, but I think it also says in the Bible that the earth opened up and water spouted out of the earth as well. (So not just rain). But - as you did with lowering Mt. Everest, assuming that only half of the water was rain - that is still a heck of a lot of rain.

And water gushing up out of the earth? Well, perhaps double the turbulance?

[OriginalIntent]

That's 9 meters of rain per square meter every hour for 40 days...

If the amount of rain were the determining factor your point would be valid.

However, the viewpoint of the YEC is that it was not so much the amount of rain (as in your thunderstorm scenario) as it were the amount of water from below which came up rapidly due to a one time geological disaster, (the biblical term for this subterranean water was 'the fountains of the deep or the great deep'...if I recall correctly).

The lion's share of the water did not come from the thunderstorm you outline, but instead came from water previously held under great pressure from below the earth's crust (most of which is now contained within the much larger ocean basins.)

Any YEC may correct me if I am mistating this and I do not say this is the claim of all YECs.

[GodGunsGuts]

==Lets say you have a hole 1m x 1m x 8,848 km and want to fill it with water in 40 days. That’s 9 meters of rain per square meter every hour for 40 days. Over every square meter of the Earth. The worst thunderstorms can only dump .05 meters of water in an hour.

Where did all the water come from?

http://biblicalgeology.net/Answer/Where-did-all-the-water-come-from.html