Where did the flood waters come from and where did they go?

The TTO topic is Wadsleyite: Global flood water repository?.Message 1 of the above cites http://www.sciencedaily.com/...ases/1997/12/971217071316.htmI made one reply at the TTO topic: Essentially, there is thought to be a LOT of water in the Earth's mantle. It can be released to the surface environment via volcanism and returned to the mantle via subduction. Doing either at a rate that would produce "The Flood" and then disipate "The Flood" is the trick.The "Wadsleyite model" would seem to share the same problems that "Runaway Plate Tectonics" has.Moose

In the early Paleozoic and at other times in the Earth's history, water coverage of the continents has been very extensive. Many times the seas have extended into Minnesota, to elevations that are currently in the area of 1500 feet about the current sea level. This coverage includes areas that have been tectonically stable for 1 billion plus years.Of course, the geography and topography of the Earth has changed vastly in the past 600 million years, and as such, considerations of what the current topography is is irrelevant.So, there is a history of great sea level rises and falls. The primary causes of these are thought to be increases and decreases in the rates of oceanic sea floor spreading - Fast spreading results in the oceanic floors rising, which displaces water onto the continents.Explaining these sea level changes in the context of it happening over million year time spans is no problem to mainstream science. Explaining how it could happen in a year or so is vastly more difficult.Moose

I find that I'm more in agreement with TB's position. In the early Paleozoic (and at other times) the Earth's continental areas were considerably flooded. I do not consider the term "global flood" to be a distortion of the facts. Which isn't to say that there still weren't considerable areas of the continents that were not "flooded".The failings of TB's position, is that he apparently is trying to compress roughly 550 million years of geologic history into roughly 1 year. Also, the flooding started long before mans "creation".Yes, the flooding happened. It fits just fine into an old Earth model. But it does not at all fit into the YEC model.Moose

You are doing a pretty good job of arguing that flooding has happened on the old Earth timescale. I, personally, will grant you that point.Compressing all that old Earth geologic evolution into a young Earth time frame is the trick. Perhaps I will eventually get back to the YEC Geologic Column - Created with apparent age?.Moose

Fluctuations in sea level do add water onto the continents, but not the total volume of water of the oceans/seas.Catastropic Plate Tectonics could supply the water for a great flood, but not a "cover the earth 15 cubits above the mountains" flood.All in all, we have the muddled mess of using old Earth evidence to try to support a young Earth "vision". The root of the problem goes back to the simple question "How old is the Earth?". Until a YEC can support there being a young Earth, there is no real rational debate possible per a young Earth "great flood". Or are TC and TB arguing an old Earth and a young flood?Well, another muddled Moose message (mMm). Perhaps best ignored.Moose