The Jesus Freaks Will Hate This

[Mister Agenda]

No one's going to bat an eye at this one, huh?

I'll bite. All it would take for a worldwide flood is for the moon to randomly shift orbits to 5% of it's current orbit. Nice.

Couple problems. Why didn't Noah mention that the moon suddenly overwhelmed the night sky? How about the massive seismological activity that would happen when the Earth and the Moon warped each other's shape? Why isn't that mentioned in the Bible? The moon would still have a warped shape. What is the mechanism for by which the moon suddenly shifted orbits, then shifted back? Also, this still wouldn't change the amount of water on the planet. It would create a rolling tidal wave, one that would easily fuck an 800' wooden boat to shit. And one, incidentally, that would leave a LOT more evidence and destruction that a simple flood would. There are too many problems to count.

Not to mention that you haven't come any closer to proving that this actually happened. In fact, you have made it easier to prove that it didn't happen.

Where did I state this is what caused the biblical flood?
I stated that all it would take is for the moon to shift in its orbit to cause a flood, in other words a world wide flood is not outside the realm of possibility.
Or are you saying that it is impossible for a planetary body to shift in its orbit? A yes or no answer will suffice.

Yes. Planetary bodies shift in their orbits all the time. For instance, the moon gets incrementally farther away from the earth every year. When it first formed in the Hadean era, it was about 20 times closer to the Earth than it is now (6,000 years ago it was about 0.14 miles closer than it is now). That was the Hadean Era, when the earth was so hot most of the water was in the form of steam and oceans could only exist because of the high atmospheric pressure. I can't think of any multicellular organism alive today that could have survived the conditions on earth back then.

It would be astronomically impossible for the Moon to have gotten twenty times closer in the last 10,000 years in a matter of days and suddenly zoomed back out to its normal distance without causing way more problems than global flooding. The primary effects would be earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and violent storms. It would be an extinction-level event comparable to what killed the dinosaurs (or worse), and it would leave unmistakeable geological evidence on both the earth and moon. It would be more likely to turn much of the world's water into steam than to cause global flooding.

I don't have the maths to calculate the energy output of such an event, but the earth's crust would be severely damaged. It would be like pulling on the surface of a rubber ball and letting it snap back.