[medved]

Humans are primarily adapted for aquatic or semi-aquatic life (see Elaine Morgans "Aquatic Ape") and have always lived near water. The basic answer to the evos refrain ("where did the waters of the flood GO?") is NOWHERE. The waters of the flood are still here; the continental shelves are in all likelihood the pre-flood ocean boundaries and we are living on areas which were regarded as plateaus before the flood. There's simply more water on Earth now than there was then.

There is reason to believe that the missing oceans of Mars may been been dumped on this planet at the time of the flood but that's a longish story.

Most of the antediluvian cities figure to be below the waves as this site is, and I assume other such sites will be found as well.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Are you claiming that the Waters didn't cover the Whole Earth? Just the Oceans?

[RightWhale]

There is reason to believe that the missing oceans of Mars may been been dumped on this planet at the time of the flood

Impossible!!! That is far beyond reason!! No one could do something like that except a deity!

Oh, well, maybe, on second thought. . .

[tortoise]

There is reason to believe that the missing oceans of Mars may been been dumped on this planet at the time of the flood but that's a longish story.

Of course, the logical rebuttal to this is that that would be about the stupidest of all possible ways to create a flood, like intentional absurdity. God doesn't need to move water around from one planet to another; he can simply make water materialize on-site any one of a thousand different ways. If you are going to posit God as the source of the flood, reason (i.e. Occam's Razor) strongly suggests that God would do it just about any way EXCEPT borrowing water from Mars and dumping it in the Earth's oceans. Only a human (or alien perhaps) would be required to go through such an idiotic feat of rote engineering. Sheesh.

[HapHaszard]

huh?