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I wonder if great DISPLACEMENT of Earth's waters would result in a universal flood. The water would not fill the ocean and rise over the land too, it would be lifted out of the ocean and poured on the land, taking a year to run back off. A couple of ways this could happen... For example asteroid strikes or the methane crystals in the ocean changing state, or both. Ever hear of the "Carolina Bays"?

I also wonder if we might be looking at a "world wide" flood through a 21st century lens, instead of what they considered "world wide" many thousands of years ago. The Bibical account does emphasize that it was a world wide flood, and that all the high hills were covered- but do they mean a gobal flood in the sense we understand it? The concept of the globe was not widely understood until 1492.

Or maybe it was global in the sense of it effecting every continent, though not necessarily buring all mountain chains with water, just the ones around Mesopotamia. Something wiped out all of the large land dwelling animals in the Americas around 12,000 years ago. That is the same time the caucasian looking skeletons in the Americas go away. The next human skeleltons are from Asian stock. 12K is pushing it back pretty far, but something happened so that old world animals lived on, but large new world animals (and humans) died out.