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Originally Posted by Windwalker
A couple of other things I thought were interesting...
Before the flood, man lived to be hundreds of years long. After the flood, man's lifespan shortened. No one lived that long anymore.
If you melt both polar caps, the level of the oceans will rise, but may not be enough to cover the statue of Liberty. So, where did the water come from to cover the highest mountain?
One theory is a meteor impact. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and a large enough meteor to empty the ocean. There would have been a tremendous amount of water that would have been vaporized, trillions of tons of water launched into the air in the form of fine mist, and the rest would have become a tsunami that would go completely around the world. There would be enough water to cover every mountain on earth.
Given the amount of rain that would have been coming down, how long would it take for the rain to end, and how long would it take for the waters to recede? Such an impact would have fractured the earth's crust and given us the fault lines that give us the earth quakes we now have.
An, impact of that magnitude would also have the ability to change earth's rotation and orbit. By that theory, man's actual life span would have remained the same, but the standard by which man measured time would have changed. 800 years might have become 80 years.
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You have a few good points here, the bible describes the water as coming up from the earth, certainly could be from a meteor, but it is hard to say.
Now as far as the spinning of the earth changing time, this would mean the world's rate of spin would have had to dramatically slow down, I am not thinking this is the case, remember, the bible explains the life spans getting shorter because of sin. The wages of sin is death, doesn't mean instant death, but death eventually.