Up to 15 cubits (22 ft / 6.5 m) of water overwhelmed them. (Genesis 7:20)
It was a global deluge.
Water runs downhill, David. For it to be a global flood, the water would have to have been over five
miles deep.
Are you suggesting that it is scientifically impossible? If so, evidence?
Mountain-forming zones are earthquake zones and volcanic zones, because what's happening is that two tectonic plates are pushing together and either buckling or subducting.
If the world had been flat just 4300 years ago and then produced mountains over five miles high as we find today, the resulting earthquakes and volcanic activity would have been sufficient to melt the Earth's crust, boil all the oceans, and kill every living thing.
What makes you think that the topography would have had to rise thousands of feet in a few hundred years?
Not only do we have mountains, we have historical records of those mountains existing long ago. What we do
not have historical records of is the melting of the Earth's crust, the boiling of all the oceans, or the death of every living thing.
According to Bible chronology the flood took place in 2370 B.C.E.
Which, as has been pointed out, is an utter impossibility.
How accurate is the measuring of millions of years ago which you bolded?
Quite accurate, thanks.
What do you think they use to determine millions of years? The Uranium-Lead clock?
Potassium-argon, or argon-argon, more likely.
The rock has to be free from lead at the beginning, which is usually not the case. We have to assume that it was sealed, which is sometimes not the case. Lead or uranium can seep into groundwater. Sedementary rock can absorb more. Thorium can slowly disintegrate into lead. Then there is the second isotope which decays at a different rate, also forming lead.
Fortunately, we have multiple different techniques, and we can, and do, run all of them and compare results.
The Potassium-Argon Clock, you say? The potassium must be free of argon when the mineral is formed. The system must be sealed for the duration, as with the Uranium-Lead clock.
So? They take that into account by measuring the Argon isotope ratios in the rock.
When measuring occurs under ideal conditions these tests compare with one another but that is usually not the case.
Are you arguing that every single radiometric dating of rock samples ever taken is not only wrong, but wrong by the same amount and in the same direction?
6,800 ft. In the central east west valley of Jezreel it starts at about 300 and goes to 390 ft. Are you suggesting a flood needed to be 300 - to 6,800 ft in order to be possible?
No, it would have needed to be closer to 30,000 feet.
What evidence is there that those elevations might have been much lower in ancient times?
None whatsoever. It's entirely impossible.
Are you suggesting that at an elevation of 300 ft there has to be a 300 foot wall of water to categorize a flood?
If the flood is
global, yes.
Folding, faulting, and volcanism, all due to plate tectonics.
What is the fastest moving tectonic plate?
What does that have to do with anything?
The Indian plate is moving north relative to the Eurasian plate at about 1.2 inches per year. This is sufficient to cause events like the
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that caused tsunamis that killed 230,000 people, the
2005 Kashmir earthquake that killed 80,000 and injured over 100,000, and the
2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed 70,000 and injured 375,000.
As a result of this tectonic activity, the Himalayas are rising by about 5mm a year, or about 70 feet since 2300BC - though that doesn't account for erosion, which can exceed 5mm per year.
Even ignoring erosion, for the Himalayas to have formed in the past 4300 years, this would have had to happen over 400 times faster. Rather than one major earthquake killing tens to hundreds of thousands of people every few years in this region, this would be happening once a
week, with annual death tolls in the tens of millions.
Taking observed rates of erosion into account, these immense earthquakes would be happening
several times a day.
No part of the planet would be habitable.
How did host-specific diseases survive the flood?
How would they normally survive?
Host-specific diseases normally survive in their hosts. Was every person and animal on the ark raddled with disease?
Which part of "practically a vacuum" did you not understand?
That's honest!
