(August 4, 2014 at 5:48 am)Rhythm Wrote: Just because I'm having so much fun with this (who knew I'd learn so much trying to find correlated data)the narrative of genesis says the floodwater sources were "the springs of the great deep" (the Hebrew phases used refers to subterranean reservoirs or aquifers) and "the floodgates of the heavens" (refers to heavy rain clouds). certain geologic events can bring aquifer water to the surface. is it an oversight that the subterranean water source is not calculated?
Snow, your deluge would, in a months time, lay three times as much water as the highest annual rainfall ever recorded anywhere on earth (which occurred in india, monsoons). The volume of water would be right around the volume of lake erie (using the lower mesopotamian marshes as my location - not that they could hold that water in for a minute...but who cares...right?), and actually exceeds the theoretical maximum for rate of rainfall on this planet. A storm capable of drawing in that much moisture (read; produce that much wind-to feed the rainfall) would pound an ark into gopher wood dust. Hell, it wouldn't have to be able to float (thus excusing you on the grounds of the boats seaworthiness) because it would be airborn.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.