"The above is enough to show that a tranquil Flood is impossible in both the ascending and recessive phases of the Flood. But is there room for a period of tranquillity when the earth was totally covered by water?
Certainly not! The earth’s rotation alone would generate large-scale circulating oceanic currents, called gyres, above the flooded continents. Tidal effects would be another generator of water currents.
Calculations show that these gyres could have flowed at 40–80 m/s (90–180 mph), over a diameter of about 2,500 km.5 "
Could have been a huge meteor strike in the open ocean..................
“Tranquil”...yeah, that is the word I would use to describe a flood that wiped out all of earth’s human population except for 8 people. /s
Ain’t sure why it matters,,,
Unless Your name is Noah.
the Genesis Flood was real and global, but it left no trace, because it was a tranquil flood.”
It left a lot of traces. I say The Flood is still with us. The floodwaters reside in the Atlantic, Pacific and other oceans.
God was punishing Mankind for driving SUVs. Notice there were none on the Arc. Noah didn’t even have a drivers license, so God knew he could be trusted to supervise loading.
Not tranquil for those a-knock’n on da Ark...
“It rained 40 days, 40 nights without stopping
Noah was glad when the rain stopped dropping
Knock at the window, a knock at the door
Crying brother Noah can’t you take on more
Noah cried no, you’re full of sin
God got the key and you can’t get in”
The word for "world" used throughout the Noah flood story is the same Hebrew word "'erets" used for world, land or country in much of the rest of the Old Testament, including Genesis. For example in Genesis 12:1 when God told Abram to "go away from your <'erets>", everybody interprets that as Abram going away from his country instead of going away from the entire planet. So be open to the possibility that the erets-wide flood was regional-wide or country-wide, not necessarily global.
I, an old earth Christian, believe that if God wanted to wipe out the entire human race sans Noah and his kiddies He could do it with a flood that wiped out everybody by flooding just part of north Africa, maybe southwest Asia, if He chose. It's not like there were people living in Los Angeles before the great migration.
Think about the size of the ark and all the animals. It's possible God used His power to make room in the ark for 2 of every species of animal on the earth (plus 7 of the "clean" animals) in a Dr. Who Taurus type manner. It's also possible that by telling Noah to get all the animals of the "world" he was saying to just get ones in the region that would be wiped out by a big regional flood. (Another possibility is that by telling Noah to get two of every "kind" of animal a "kind" was possibly more like a genus than a species -- allowing microevolution to produce other species later.)
Main takeaways. Either way the flood was a really big, humanity-wipe-out event that I'm sure Noah and his family talked about the rest of their lives. Even if we believe the flood was regional like I do we should never doubt God's ability to be just as catastrophic with fire on his next round.
But we should be careful to paint Christian beliefs in a box where if we don't find Biblical or scientific evidence to support traditional belief A we wind up weaving a bunch of explanations why we see no evidence of it --- but our belief must still be exactly like we were told as kids. If we do too much of that we make Christianity look like it's based on pseudo-science like Scientology.
Why do we believe there was never a worldwide flood? Why are flood legends considered myths?
Some interesting history and science about the matter in variuos posts here:
https://theworldwideflood.com/2018/10/27/articles-and-their-descriptions-2/
Based on the stuff at that site, the flood wasn’t a peaceful event.
I hope you don’t mind but I just don’t buy into a big flood. That is not what the geological record shows by any stretch. It does show many areas that we live in now were under water 10s of millions of years ago, but there has been no flood over the entire planet especially since humans have been on the earth.
Now having said all that, I fully respect folks who do believe in the flood, just like those who, on this db, try to tell me the Bible writers were not flat earthers. I definitely prefer your company over a lot of left leaning crazies.