Sorry, I missed your reply somehow...
"it does not eliminate God."
Interesting comment. See below.
I think you've forgotten all the evidence I presented….from the Chinese character for 'ship' (it's origin being unrelated to the Biblical narrative), to the
observable crisp and well-defined features of many mountain ranges (an indication of their geologically young age), to the similarities of hundreds of Flood stories from diverse cultures (unknown to each other), to the festivals of the dead outlined in Colonel John Garnier's research which I informed you about. (Did you find it? I downloaded it from Google.) Here it is on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Worship-Dead...tch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#customerReviews .
Saying "we don't know" (which is the answer given many times) are
not "more reliable reasons", are they?
You're not going to "come to grips" with
the fact that mainstream scientists base their replies solely on naturalistic causes (they have to), so they ignore any type of divine event
which fits the facts better. Like the problem of the Pleistocene extinctions, or the Permafrost conundrum, to name just two of numerous unexplained anomalies.
What "preponderance of evidence"? Usually it's based on faulty assumptions, such as the assumed height of mountain ranges, 5000 yrs.ago. (If all current ranges are many myo, then why don't they all look like they've endured such comparable erosion?) Or some try to link the Flood to a Young Earth view. Or inaccurate timelines based on Lyle's assertion "the present is the key to the past".
Let me ask you this...for a moment, please, assume the Flood was literal. (Some of) thee waters came from where? The upper atmosphere, right? How would that affect dating methods on objects
existing before the Event? Could you impose the same parameters?
