You say you are not a YEC….
Yes, I “say” it. I’m not.
…yet you want everyone to believe that the world was some sort of static lowland for millions and billions of years and then suddenly, it all changed.
Because I accept the Earth as divine. Which encompasses quite a lot: since it’s His creation
for us humans His children, He took great care in & protected its development. And Adam and Eve were to enjoy their life, under His guidance. But after the Rebellion in Eden, Jehovah has let the Earth systems continue
w/o His controlling influence. The forces & processes He established proceed
w/o His constraint, for the most part. — See Isaiah 11:9… it “
will be filled”… it is not happening,
now.
That’s why there are deadly things to humans,
now.
Prior to A&E’s rebellion, didn’t Jehovah tell them they could eat “from
every tree of the Garden,” and that “
all green vegetation” was to be their food? You can’t eat it all,
now! Things have changed. Evolved, if you will. (You know I’ve always stated I believed in evolution, but that those processes have limits.) Some organisms, now, are deadly. They’ve developed ie, evolved ways to protect themselves. I’ve digressed, I know, but the point is made: This Earth was under God’s control… it isn’t currently, but it will be again, once the Rebellion issues are settled. And humans will enjoy unending life to the full, including the resurrected ones.
“Static lowland”? Please. There can be quite a lot of geological diversity under 7500 feet.
Continental drift, mountain formation, canyon formation, and so on.
Diversity in those processes, too.
And not any evidence for this nor an explanation of how anything would have survived such a vast and rapid release of incredible energy.
No surface dwelling organisms
did survive… Except those whom Jehovah protected in the Ark.
You don't have a model. You have speculation.
Many models are based on speculation, set within parameters fitting the evidence. Mine fits.
Any thought on how that Siberian critter carcass evidence is only explainable by a global flood? Could you elaborate on what perfect preservation is and how the examples being found fit what you mean by that?
The catastrophic forces the Flood unleashed, not the least of which would be the instant formation of ice, more heavily in the Earth’s northern latitudes than in the southern (since the Flood occurred in / around November, according to the Bible), would create unique environments, deadly of course. I would think this lion, apparently found dry, was in a cave encased with ice, where couldn’t escape. (He was young, apparently.)
Many animals, prey & predator alike, have been discovered in caves, where they died huddled together. It seems their fear overrode normal instincts.
Such a Flood would certainly explain the Ice Age, and the accompanying quick extinction of many of the discovered lifeforms, within the Permafrost.
And c14 dating of organisms
before the Flood, would be thrown
way off.