The Statler Waldorf Balcony

[Thor]

Oh brother. The water is contained within the mineral structures in the mantle. It's kept in the mantle the same way ground water is kept under ground.

Really? There's enough water "in the mantle" to flood the planet with SIX MILES of water? This is absurd in the extreme. You have a source for this steaming pile of bullshit?

The flood caused drasstic plate tectonices which formed a lot of our current mountain ranges.

Source for this crap?

This would have also caused many of our deepest oceanic trenches.

Source? Or do you just make unsubstantiated assertions?

Level these out, and you even have enough water on Earth today to cover the entire planet. So we would not need a lot of water from the mantle,

How do you figure this? You would need enough water to cover the highest mountains. Mt. Everest is nearly six miles high! You would need an unbelievable amount of water!

it's just one working model that makes sense.

Sure. If you throw your brain out the window.

Your reasoning is not even in line with modern Science, many Scientists today believe there was a global flood on Mars despite there not being any visible water on Mars (Reuters, Mars Calamity May have Created Conditions for Life. New York Times, 16 March, 2001- not a youtube video lol) . So a lack of water obviously is not grounds for denying a flood anyways. It's just an added bonus that we have enough water on Earth.

There would be archaeological and geological evidence of a global flood within the past 5,000 years. There is none. But please feel free to show us any.

Not a stadium sized ship, but a ship very large.

Yes, so large that Noah and his ilk could not possibly have built it at that time. They did not have the tools necessary to cut and hew the gigantic timbers that would have been necessary to build the keel! They also would not have been able to waterproof the thing. It would have leaked like a sieve and sunk!

Would not have had to get creatures from every continent because I already told you that Creationists believe drastic plate tectonics were a result of the flood.

Which no legitimate scientist would agree with.

Would not have had to go and "get" all the creatures becasue scripture says the animals came to him.

Yeah, "scripture" says a lot of stupid shit, doesn't it? So how long did Noah have to wait before the penguins could waddle up from the South Pole?

The dietary needs of animals are not actually as specialized as you make them out to be.

Carnivores need meat. Herbivores need vegetation. Where did Noah get the meat? Especially at a time before refrigeration?

An Ice Age would have shortly followed the flood providing a means for the animals to re-populate the continents.

How would an ice age provide a means for the animals to repopulate the continents? this makes no sense.

This would not have been hard to do at all considering they would have had a 1000 years to do so. Wolves were re-introduced in Yellowstone 15 years ago. Wolves have now been spotted in Southern Oregon. So in 15 years that small initial pack has grown and has travelled over 1000 miles. This is with competition from species that already inhabit Southern and Easter Oregon. So the animals would have dispersed very quickly and could have easily covered the necessary ground.

Doesn't explain how kangaroos got to Australia. Or Tasmanian Devils got to New Zealand.

The fossil record shows lots of animals that were buried alive by flooding and the order of animals in the record is exactly what we would expect to see.

How can you possibly determine from a fossil that the creature was "buried alive by flooding"? Source?