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I have no opinion on a date for a/the flood. Hydrology is still in dispute over simple things like the age of Niagara Falls and the Mississippi/Missouri river to start stating "without a shadow of a doubt" any ages. The best we/they got are SWAGS (scientific wild a$$ guesses) and general assumptions or time frames. To put exact dates on things that old without irrefutable evidence reminds me of the Leakeys, et. al. When facts are supposed to guide science, why so often does science try to guide the facts? It seems that the hardest thing for a scientist to say is "I don't know."IMO.

Actually, science has placed no date on a global flood, as there has been no scientific evidence for such an event at the appropriate time. Hydrology, geology and other sciences don't come into play.

The date of the global flood, as estimated by biblical scholars, is given variously as:

2252 BC -- layevangelism.com

2304 BC -- Answers in Genesis (+/- 11 years).

2350 BC -- Morris, H. Biblical Creationism. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1993.

2370 BC -- TalkOrigins.com

2500 BC -- http://www.nwcreation.net/biblechrono.html

2522 BC -- Dr. Gerhard Hasel

2978-3128 BC -- http://www.asa3.org/archive/ASA/199605/0162.html

3300 BC -- http://www.biblediscoveries.com/flood1.html

3537 BC -- Setterfield (1999)

The most common date is in the range of 2300-2350 BC, so I used 4300 years ago in my post #252.

To repeat the point of that post, the genetic continuity from 10,300 years ago to living individuals that has been documented in the western US agrees with other evidence that there was no global flood at about 4300 years ago.

The date of the global flood, as estimated by biblical scholars

Various non-biblical scholars have offered their estimates too. Cremo, Hancock, et. al. and I still have no definite opinion about the dates. They are all best guesses when looking at it from a scientific standpoint. As with geology, there are plenty of signs of hydrological movement but it cannot be put into an all encompassing nice, neat order on a global scale. That is part of the problem for deluvian modelers, self inclined. It's part of the passion I have for the related field works. I jsut wish we could get all the raw data and not have to work from the sieves of Nature and other peer-reviewed journals. That info is cleaned, scrubbed and sanitized. IMO