Originally posted by telerion
. . . and released so much heat when it converted to rain that it melted the earth and the Ark. Then God went into action.
He cooled the earth and magicked away all the extra water. He brought Noah and the Ark back into existence inside a time vacuum such that they felt they had traveled for one year. Then he instantiated all the vegetation for the Ar ...[text shortened]... shield had been removed.
Supernatural Omnipotent Omniscient Manipulators. Gotta love 'em.
I'm quite familiar with the young-earth rebuttals, so here goes my self-important attempt:
. . . and released so much heat when it converted to rain that it melted the earth and the Ark.
Hmmm... Condensation is exothermic. There would have been a bit of heat caused. Enter "Giant Ice-Meteors" (which triggered the collapse in the first place) who cause a suppression of the temperature, and an ice age.
magicked away all the extra water.
Immense tectonic movement caused tipping of the plates and the runoff formed what currently covers 70% of the surface -- the oceans.
He brought Noah and the Ark back into existence inside a time vacuum such that they felt they had traveled for one year.
Ha.
Then he instantiated all the vegetation for the Ark animals to consume.
Vegetation would have survived the thorough dowsing in seed form.
He made the carnivores not hungry until the herbivores could recuperate their numbers.
Bunnies reproduce faster than lions. QED!
He altered the gene pool so as to disguise the enormous genetic bottleneck.
And you think the theory of evolution which posits a single common ancestor doesn't have the same problem!?!
He made all geological indicators look like no great flood had ever occurred.
The Grand Canyon; fossils of seabed creatures on the upper reaches of the Himalayas. I forget all the rest. There was an entire book devoted to it in the 70's IIRC.
He added some pyramids, and even cheated by throwing a few people in east asia.
The stones of the Great Pyramid of Giza weigh up to 80 tonnes each -- not quite rubber duckies that float away when a little water comes past. It's anyway estimated to have been constructed around 2560 BC -- a couple millennia after the proposed flood. The East Asians were deposited by UFO’s. Alternatively, they could have moved there while most of the water was trapped as ice at the poles.