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I never said archeology backs up the Bible re: the global flood. I don’t know enough about what archeology says about the global flood to comment one way or another at this point. What I am saying is that the Bible has proven it’s reliability over and over when archaeological finds are compared to the historical claims of the Bible. I also pointed out that a number of archeologists are starting to take the global flood seriously (the archeolgist profiled in Discover Magazine being one of them). And science is increasingly pointing to a global flood (ie paleocurrents, fossil position, evidence of large-scale flood depositions all across the globe, etc), as does global folklore, etc. But you have piqued my curiosity, so this will be the next thing I look into. I will get back to when I know more. In the meantime, it is sad that you close yourself off from the scientists who claim that the Bible is accurate with respect to history, archeology, origins, and cosmology. I read evolutionists all the time, and I often take their data at face value...it is their interpretation and conclusions I often find myself in disagreement with.

Biblical scholars place the date of the flood at about 4350 years ago. If you are going to propose a global flood at that date there are a few bits of data you need to account for.

1) Neither sedimentology nor archaeology support a global flood at that date. Rather, the soils and human cultures are continuous in most areas spanning this date. Post-Ice Age floods are known; we can see those floods but we can't see a much larger, much more recent flood? That doesn't make any sense.

2) Fauna and flora are continuous across this date worldwide. For example, pollen cores that show no discontinuity attributable to a global flood 4350 years ago. Neither do glacial varves, tree ring sequences, or several other methods of tracking time.

3) mtDNA shows a continuity that can be tracked back tens of thousands of years. Just on the west coast a skeleton dated to 10,300 years ago found in southern Alaska was found to have the same mtDNA as living individuals in southern California and all along the coasts of Central and South America. There was no break in Native American mtDNA, followed by replacement by mtDNA attributable to Noah's folks.

These are just a few of the things that help to disprove the idea of a global flood at 4350 BP.