I didn't read the whole thing, but I read enough to get what I was looking for. Assuming that the second site listed is typical of literalist belief, the dominant belief is that all written records are post deluge.
Here's where I have a problem with that. According to the Bible, 335 years passed between the time of the flood, and the birth of Abram. (That's Abraham for those not up on your Old Testament. Abram was his given name, which he changed to Abraham after he became the first Jew.) Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph led relatively normal, only slightly extended, lifespans. Joseph went to the land of Egypt, where he was apparently present at the court of a Middle Egyptian Pharoah. A few generations later, we have Moses, who is traditionally associated with Ramses, although I suppose that could be in error. Either way, though, after Moses, we get into some historically verifiable events for which we have written records, and so can be dated more precisely.
Unfortunately for a literal interpretation of the Bible, Egyptian written records extend back more than 335 years before what must have been the time of Abraham. Meanwhile, Chinese and Indian civilizations have continuous historical records that would extend back to antedeluvian eras, if the chronology of the descendants of Shem in Genesis is to be believed.
How do literalists get around this problem of reconciling the independent historical records that would extend Egyptian, Chinese, and Indian civilization back into an era that would predate the flood if the Bible were to be believed?
