Question about this so called World Wide Flood.

Did you know that olive trees are exceptionally sensitive to waterlogging? The consensus among my olive-farming neighbours here in Andalucia (olive capital of the world) is that even a big, well established tree won't survive more that a couple of weeks' inundation. I managed to kill a bonsai olive just by leaving it out in the rain for a couple of days in a pot that briefly became waterlogged.The maximum salinity they will tolerate is 3 parts per thousand, an order of magnitude less than that of sea water.So if you believe that all the land of the earth was covered for at least a couple of weeks with somewhat saline water, and that a dove then found a living olive leaf, you are entertaining an impossibility.Edited to add - They also germinate extremely slowly and erratically, generally needing several years to sprout, if they do at all. So no, it wasn't a new seedling.
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Then HE said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Luke 24 v 25[This message has been edited by Chavalon, 03-09-2003]