(August 17, 2014 at 2:40 am)snowtracks Wrote:If all of the water in the gulf drained away, you'd have an enormous basin with at least a few layers of massive deposits. We're not talking about a few feet of water spread out over flat land and draining back over time. Flood literalists are talking about an enormous amount of water (enough to change the geographic features of the earth, according to some of them) covering the whole world for 150 days and draining away over the course of another seven and a half months, and that it happened some 4,500 years ago.(August 5, 2014 at 5:32 am)Tonus Wrote: And if all of that water drained away, what do you think would be left behind?have already posted that the genesis flood lasted a mere 1 year and 10 days which is not enough time for deposits to be positively identified after some 40,000 years. the 1993 Mississippi and Missouri floods after a few decades, which in some areas covered 100 miles, have virtually left no flood deposits.
If you think it was a localized flood that happened at a different time and was minor enough to leave little or no trace, fine. But you're at odds with a heck of a lot of your fellow Christians, at least some of whom would consider you a heretic for your view.
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