[Cedric]

You are correct, raining for 40 days and 40 nights would render only 18” of water worldwide.

The Bible based explanation involves a canopy of water above the earth and the unleashing of the “vaults of the deep" from under the earth's surface, the latter being much more voluminous. Plus, many mountains were created as a result of the violent displacements caused by the Flood.

[Wacka]

So where is all this water now? It can’t be in the earth because it would turn to steam and blow up the earth, unless there is a magical insulated container.If the Great Lakes were not made by glaciers,during the ice age, then why is the land sunder them still rising, rebounding from the enormous weight of the ice. How then are eskers made? What made the scratches on the rock outcroppings in central park. How do the isolated boulders get where there are found today?

That’s right-the answer to everthing on the earth-god did it!

[Non-Sequitur]

The Bible based explanation involves a canopy of water above the earth and the unleashing of the “vaults of the deep" from under the earth's surface, the latter being much more voluminous. Plus, many mountains were created as a result of the violent displacements caused by the Flood.

So I've been told.