“If you were to create a map of the world the size of a football field, with everything drawn to scale, the tallest mountain (Mt. Everest) would be only about 1/2 inch tall.”
Okay, at 100 yards, or 3600 inches across, the world would average about 4 inches deep. That’s the depth of the Marianas trench from sea level.
Everest would be another 3 inches up from sea level.
So we flood this football field with 7.6 inches of water.
The ground averaging at 4 inches deep would not be able to hold 7.6 inches of water.
"If you were to flood that football field with enough water to cover your miniature "Mount Everest", it would absorb into the earth in half an hour and be gone.”
No, sweetie. Even if the water filled the oceans and was absorbed b the ‘earth’ we’d still have a rice paddy. We would have noticed if every single kilogram of dirt was holding 2 or 3 times it’s volume in water. It’d be, whaddayacallit, fucking obvious.
“It is only necessary to cover the SURFACE of the earth to cause a universal flood.”
Yes. With water.
Which means that the water ALL OVER THE GLOBE is deeper than Everest is tall. It doesn’t pile for shit.
“Besides, the Bible story seems to indicate that the mountains pushed up to their great height, and the seas were carved out to their great depth in conjunction with, or just after the great flood.”
No, it says the floodwaters covered the mountains, not that the land was flat until after the waters went…somewhere.
"It may have been much smoother on its surface before all that happened, so water would spread more easily.”
If you filled in the oceans with all the dirt above sea level, the ocean water would cover the smooth earth to about 2 kilometers.
But then the flood would not have been described as covering mountains, would it?
And all the creationists models that show the grand canyon eroded when the waters drained away> To where…?
