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"Which there obviously wasn't since there's not enough water on Earth now to cover the planet in a flood"

Really? So you've checked this out?

Good, I have a few questions, which I'm sure you can answer.

On average, at any given time, how many millions of gallons of water are in clouds floating over the earth?

How many millions of gallons of water make up the ice at each of the poles?

How many millions of gallons of water are sitting elsewhere across the world in snowcapped peaks, etc.?

How many millions of gallons of water are in underground bodies of water?

"Really? So you've checked this out?"

As a former hydrogeologist, yes I have...

Good, I have a few questions, which I'm sure you can answer."

Shoot.

"On average, at any given time, how many millions of gallons of water are in clouds floating over the earth?"

Not enough to flood the Earth if combined with all other forms of water.

"How many millions of gallons of water make up the ice at each of the poles?"

Not enough to flood the Earth if combined with all other forms of water.

"How many millions of gallons of water are sitting elsewhere across the world in snowcapped peaks, etc.?"

Not enough to flood the Earth if combined with all other forms of water.

"How many millions of gallons of water are in underground bodies of water?"

Not enough to flood the Earth if combined with all other forms of water.

Sorry, but this isn't even 'science' as much as it is simple mathematics. The volume of water needed to flood the world to the tip of Mt. Ararat (which isn't nearly as high as Mt. Everest, throwing another monkey wrench into this children's story) simply doesn't exist on this planet.

And again, the resultant atmospheric pressure due to this mythical amount of rainfall would've smothered Noah and his zoo long before they supposedly crashed on a mountain top in Turkey.

Most geologists agree that the mythical Flood was probably due to the Mediterranean Sea finally overflowing the Hellespont and creating the Black Sea. To the uneducated, mostly-illiterate masses living in the area at the time, I'm sure it was a terrifying event that few, if any, in the area survived. The more the story is retold down-the-road from the actual event, the more the details of the event get embellished, as all human beings are prone to doing when telling a good story. There's certainly large grains of fact in the story itself, however.

I wouldn't be surprised if an old man (Noah) took it upon himself after a Godly warning to make a big boat and gather as many animals as possible. But therein lies another problem, since it would've been impossible for Noah to gather the animals of Africa, most of Asia, and Australia. Not only would his boat be the size of a country to hold all these animals, but he would've needed Santa's magic sleigh to do all this in the 40 or so days of warning.

"On average, at any given time, how many millions of gallons of water are in clouds floating over the earth?"

1. About 3,100 cubic miles of water, mostly in the form of water vapor, is in the atmosphere at any one time. If it all fell as precipitation at once, the Earth would be covered with only about 1 inch of water. A cubic mile of water equals more than one trillion gallons.

How many millions of gallons of water make up the ice at each of the poles?

2. Approximately 7,000,000 cubic miles of water.

How many millions of gallons of water are sitting elsewhere across the world in snowcapped peaks, etc.?

3. That number is included in #2.

How many millions of gallons of water are in underground bodies of water?

4. More than 2,000,000 cubic miles of fresh water is stored in the Earth, most within one-half mile of the surface.

BTW, the total water supply of the world is roughly 326 million cubic miles. According to the Flood story of Genesis, it rained for 40 days and nights, so, taken literally, the water source was atmospheric in nature. As the above fact states, there's only enough atmospheric water to cover the earth in 1" of water, and that's assuming that the earth itself doesn't absorb any, nor is there any runoff, which are both preposterous assumptions to make.