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And saying that the ordering of the fossil record cannot be attributed to a world wide flood, does not mean that the world wide flood did not occur.
Correct. This does not mean a global flood did not occurr; it merely STRONGLY IMPLIES a global flood did not occur. To claim a global flood, you would have to demonstrate both the flood mechanism, and the bone deposition mechanism; the problem is harder.
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The purpose now is to look at what is there not from one perspective or he other, but to look at what is there and decide what it is telling us.
Correct. And there is nothing reliable tellling us there was a global flood.