Does The Flood Add up?

Nice post. But you will never get anywhere with creationists assembling relevant facts, you should know that. They have the ultimate comeback - God did it.

Lots of carpenter ants working on that gopher wood I imagine. Not to mention termites. Noah likely made a special exception to his no screwing rule for the anteaters so that there would be enough anteaters to keep up with the demand.

Along with the geology book I would recommend a good book on population genetics and maybe one on epidemiology. This statement is nonsense. One individual can have only so much genetic diversity. If you have only 8 individuals you have an extreme bottleneck, even if all of the individuals are completely heterozygous, which they are not likely to be, given that they lived in an ancient society where there was not a great deal of mobility - there would have been a fairly high rate of inbreeding/genetic load. The longer a population is around and the larger the population, the more genetic diversity, as mutations accumulate and there are many suitable mates available. A bottleneck of the human population down to eight people all from the same general region - and crowded into an Ark with a bunch of animals from all over the world - would in all probability have caused the extinction of the species. All it would have taken would have been a virus or bacterium carried by an animal for which the humans had no resistance. This is another good argument against a worldwide flood. And you can't argue "no diseases" because this is after the Fall, remember?

No. In-breeding problems are a result of inbreeding, which you would have in spades in Noah's grandchildren.

It doesn't matter what model you have in mind. That does not change the facts, which your model does not take into account. You can't just create new facts. Well, one can study population genetics in a fruit fly colony in the lab, create bottle necks, etc and watch it all unfolding right in front of you. There is no reason NOT to assume that a human population 4000 years ago would have behaved in a significantly different way in terms of population genetics. Also we have some pretty good data on Amish and royal family populations and we know what inbreeding can do (and they don't generally marry any closer than second cousins. Noah's grandchildren were FIRST cousins). Again you have to provide some evidence that population genetics followed a different set of rules since the parsimonius explanation is that the rules are the same now as then. Off topic so I won't pursue it except to say that you have never successfully argued that point and you provide no citation so we can safely ignore it as "facts not in evidence." Again, an assertion with no evidence cited. Anyway the state of health of Noah and his family would not have been good for long if a virus being carried by an animal had swept through their tiny population.