[WVKayaker]

No it was uniform. That's why Noah wrote about how hot it got on the Ark after floating on a boiling sea for over seven months.

Noah wrote that? Where (please read my post 126 and highlight your statement with facts!)???

Land creatures and air creatures died. Sea creatures didn't! (in mass!) Water flooding killed them, not hot water, as the dove brought back an olive branch. Hot water would have killed all vegetation, as well.

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I guess I really did need a </sarcasm> tag...

[par4]

Actually, I believe that the excerpt says an "olive leaf", not branch, which is even more doubtful. For a leaf to form in a week after months of an olive tree being submerged (read: minimal sunlight if the olive tree was at the top of the highest peak local to the ark, say 3' under water) is another miracle.

Even more so when the water covering the earth had to be pretty salty, after all 2/3 of the earth is now covered with salt water, dilute it by 1/3 and use it to water a garden. Bad things will probably happen. But then again, I'm an idiot; I could't even find that boiling sea bit. Does boiling olive trees in salt water enhance leaf production?

[editor-surveyor]

Were it not hot water, the calcareous rocks would not have formed. Simple chemistry of creating a super-saturated solution by heating the water.