Oh, I have already answered some of these things many times. I think that you meant to say thousands of feet instead of thousands of miles for how far the fountains of the deep shot water into the atmosphere.
No. Let's say the rift was where the mid ocean ridge is today. That would be in the middle of the huge continent, basically, and thousands of miles away from land out on the edges. So how does a shooting fountain thousands of miles away destroy fossils?
But rain alone could not cause the flood unless you are saying that the rain was heavier than anything that we have now. If it rained for forty days and forty nights, that alone would not cover the mountains of Rodinia speculated to be about six thousand feet tall at the most.
It was the windows of heaven that brought water from the other side of space (firmament) that brought water. Not rainfall.
The fountains of the deep ripped a seam like the seam on a baseball all around the globe in just a very short time. That much force would be immense pressure on plates of Rodinia. Also, do you think that it is possible that animals lived longer before the flood?
Yes. Very likely.
We both agree that there was only about 1500 years of earth before the flood, don't we? As for the layers of the geological column, YECs (Young Earth Creationists) like to use the Grand Canyon as an example of all the different layers that were laid down by the flood because the walls of the canyon display the evidence fairly clearly.
How do they show evidence all the layers were put down in one year?
The layers did not go down in the same order all over the earth but they went down at the time of the flood according to YEC scientists. Eventually the earth sank where the seams were ripped and the water from the flood formed the ocean. With water covering seventy percent of the earth, it would be hard to find pre-Cambrian fossils on the remaining continents.
? Water does not dissolve fossils does it?
As for the Ice Age, you have never specified when you yourself think that it occurred. YECs said that it happened after the Flood because of the warm water from the fountains of the deep and the warmth of the water of the rains. This put off a lot of steam and humidity, right?
Here is a timeline I go with.
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I assume the ice age may have started after or during the flood.
So the thousands of volcanic eruptions set off by the formation of Pangaea and then, secondly, by the formation of the seven continents that we have today covered the earth with particles preventing the sun from breaking through and causing the moisture in the air to form clouds that cooled to massive ice and snow storms in about thirty percent of the seven continents.
There could be some truth to that, not sure. I tend to lean toward the assumption that other chemicals and stuff were also trapped under the earth. Now if we released with the water, some chemical that maybe was similar to liquid nitrogen, we could have a lot of freezing real fast in the area around the fountain of the deep where such stuff was near or with the water.
Because of scientific dating problems, I don't think that we can accurately sort out the fossils from Rodinia that survived in the pre-Cambrian layers. We know that the single continent Rodinia broke up into Pangaea--no one disputes that--and we also that Pangaea immediately reformed into the seven continents. Secular geologists support that fact in some numbers because of things like the Appalachian Mountains and the Caledonian Mountains being made of the same material--a fact that I heard about fifty years ago but I do not know when it was discovered.
The continents did separate fast. Your problem is that you claim it was because of and in the flood year. There were mountains before the flood and the rapid separation. I have heard some say the Appalachians may be such a range. Again, you cannot claim the flood year did it for no reason.
We know that the Dove brought Noah and olive branch, proving that some plant life returned on its own after the Flood receded.
Plants did return, yes. That was not Noah's job, just the animals. God took care of plants. He also planted the garden in Eden, so we know He does that.
The thing is, that in the former nature, trees grew in a few weeks. Plants grew fast. So all the animals and man would have had plenty to eat if trees and plants were there and growing fast. That means it had to be in the former nature. Otherwise, at today's rates, they would starve, waiting for things to grow. That is an indication the former nature still existed after the flood also.
Perhaps logs floating around on the waters became stuck somewhere and new trees sprouted out, perhaps some plants just survived the flood--I don't know.
No need for any of that if it was the former nature.
If you can imagine the immense size of the Ark, I think that you can see that Noah would have had plenty of room to store many provisions to last a long time.
Once the animals left the ark, they needed to eat.
Also, he could have grown some vegetables on the Ark perhaps.
Bingo. If grass used to grow in a day, there would be plenty. If not, then he got what, maybe one crop in his planters?
And also, there would have been plenty of fish that survived the Flood to feed both animals and man and there may have been plenty of dead animals here and there to satisfy the new carnivores who ate dead animals.
Not sure how many fish were on the mountains of Ararat.
I think that we have discussed animal migration before several times. The Ice Age is thought to have lowered the sea level six hundred feet, creating many land bridges. Also, massive log floats, noted from Mt. St. Helens and elsewhere, show that the waters of the world might have been log jammed for decades. This would certainly help birds. It has been shown by Kon-Tiki in the 1950s that it is possible to cross the Pacific Ocean on a primitive raft. So there are two means of migrating and I am sure that there were more.
It is simpler and makes more sense to have the rapid separation of continents after the flood, not during.
