A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea

[Drich]

Yes, those "d-bags" who call themselves geologists.  Or are only geologists who study floods "d-bags?" That's childish even for you.

Profession does not make on a d-bag. It is how one behaves in said profession that make one a d-bag. Or are you saying out of all the different professions in the world 'geology' is the one profession that keeps narrow minded people from getting jobs? Does it prevent small box thinkers from speak out and making it look like the whole profession supports only one world view?

What the bible describes is a saturation flood not a flash flood. your d-bags are describing the after effects of flash flooding pretending no other flooding would be possible.

http://hillsborough.ifas.ufl.edu/prohort...ration.pdf

There are more problems with your explanation then with the lack of of a sedimentary layer.  The first problem is Genesis itself which says:  on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights."  "Bursting forth" doesn't sound slow and gradual to me.  And then there's that pesky forty days and nights of rain.  So if Genesis is accurate there was more to it that water gradually rising out of the ground.

But let's look at what that "gradual" rise would mean.  To cover Mt. Everest the water would have to rise from sea level to 29,000 feet in 40 days (960 hours).  That would be a rate of over 30 feet an hour.  Over 16 and a half feet an hour if you only want to cover Mt. Ararat at 16,800 feet. You don't think that much water percolating out of the soil that fast would leave a mark?  Really?  You can say more of it was rain, but then you are back the lack of evidence of flooding.

Maybe if it were isolated to one singular point or source. the bible does not pin point only one source. It also said It rained 40 days and nights... It does not tell us how long the springs ran for.

But Genesis doesn't say it percolates, it bursts forth" out of the "springs of the deeps" whatever those might be.  That suggests localized springs not all over percolation.  But wherever it come from it would have run downhill from there, because that what water does, it runs downhill.

  You don't live in an area with springs do you? Springs happen in low areas. so the low areas will fill first and gradually fill upward. again not a flash flood situation.

And even if it all welled up from land at or below sea level, or from beneath the oceans, you still have to account for forty days of world wide rain leaving no trace.  In most of the world two or three days of steady rain creates flooding of a more conventional sort.

It does, but @ 6 to 8 ft rise per hour from the ground up for at least 40 days what mark would the rain leave. (I know you said 16 ft per hour but you were not counting rain fall totals nor the fact that the springs did not have to stop after 40 days.)

 So, yes, I would expect to see evidence of something like conventional flooding world wide.  The rain fell world wide according to the story for 40 days and nights.  That's a lot of streams, lakes etc. slipping their banks--all of them in fact.

Then you are guilty of only looking and calculating in single elements of the flood one at a time.

And then there's the shear volume of water necessary.  Others have already covered the rather major problems of where did an extra 3 billion cubic kilometers of water come from and where did it go.

asked and answered.

 

My question to you is if all that water exited the core of earth and then sat on top of it for 150 days before beginning to recede, don't you think the shear weight of all that water would leave a mark on the soil?  That's a hell of a lot of pressure.

Ever see pictures from the bottom of Marianas trench? kinda looks like rock and sand, and that is more than 7 miles down. (further than what we are talking about.)

Of and then there's salt.  Did it all stay handily in the oceans instead of spreading out and salting the waters of the flood? Otherwise that sedimentary layer we're missing ought to be salty too.

what is with you guys? did none of you ever attend 5th grade science class? Salt water and fresh does not mix well. See the info I left stimbo.