And similarly, at base, the scientific method and its results must also be believed or not believed on faith. First principles (including belief in the correspondence of sensory perception with external reality, if that is ones first principle) ultimately rest on faith.
Belief in the Flood as a miracle makes sense as an article of faith, but it is nonsense to assert that it has left a physical record.
Believing that the Flood was real and believing that it left a physical record are two different things. I should have left out the word “physical” when I asked “What is your basis for rejecting the Old Testament testimony concerning the physical reality of the Flood...” to avoid implying that the Flood was not a supernatural event.
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed. – Matthew 16:1-4
The above quote is not a condemnation of science or scientists, but of those who would subject the Creator to the creation.
Did you ever address Chinese history and why their written documents on that time are somewhat lacking in describing how they were entirely wiped from the face of the earth?