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If one assumes the flood was in the area of Noah’s family (the hebrew transcripts can be translated either way) and one assumes he brought the animals used for food and farming not every animal (physically impossible on that vessel), one would find the evidence you are searching for.

No problem there. There is a ton of evidence for rapid sea rise in the near east just before written history begins. the flooding of the Black Sea had to be a trauma to the people living there virtually unmatched in human history. And Bob Ballard said the whole thing could have happened in a few weeks. So 40 days and 40 nights is not out of the realm of possibility. No doubt stories of that time were still wandering around in time for Moses and Gilgamesh (SP?).

Also there was the Green Sahara as we came out of the last ice age, and there are numerous fossilized sea shores all along the Mediterranean testifying to sea level shifts. Now while it takes a long time to create one of these coastlines, the shift from one to the next might be very rapid, although in in the 40 day range, more like a few hundred years. But during that time there would be periods of rapid flooding as what had been a river delta suddenly became a bay during a very bad storm. Kinda like New Orleans after Katerina.

Like I said I'm not arguing the religion, just pointing out that the rock bending argument doesn't support the theory of rapid sedimentation.

[[Like I said I’m not arguing the religion, just pointing out that the rock bending argument doesn’t support the theory of rapid sedimentation.]]

Actually it DOES support it- could htere be OTHER explanations as well? Sure- however there would need to be evdience to back up another scenario- do we have htose evidences? Or do the evidences we have more uspport world flood? Are the evidences just anectdotal? Or are they worldwide evidneces that seem ot have occured at the same time?- We can’t say that because folding has a couple of explanation probabilities that one is ruled out or another isn’t possible unless there is a perponerance of evidences for one or hte other hypothesis to establish a beyond reasonable doubt case.