So they didn't have oceans 4800 years ago?
“So they didn’t have oceans 4800 years ago?”
Perhaps not. We clearly know the continents have shifted over time and mountains have been pushed up.
Here is something to think about...
The sources of the water are given in Genesis 7:11 as “the fountains of the great deep” and the “windows of heaven.”
Fountains of the deep implies water below ground. Windows of heaven implies a water canopy of some kind.
Separate the continents, push up the land mass, there is plenty of room for water to go...
Don’t have any claim to absolute here. Just thinkin’ with you...
Even if you melted all of the current ice in the world it would not raise ocean levels even close to 13,000 feet so where is all of that extra water?
There had never been rain until Noah’s time.
One theory is that there was a water vapor canopy in the upper atmospher that contained a huge amount of water. Until God directed it to rain down.
& That that water canopy helped protect life from cosmic rays and lengthened their lifespans back then.
IIRC.