OK, here’s another one: widespread characteristic erosion. The world meteorological organization defines “heavy rain” as rain in excess of 2” in a 24 hour period (
SWIC - Heavy Rain / Snow). With this in mind, think about the great flood idea. We have 40 days (= 960 hours) to get to mountaintop depth, and with an old earth, Everest and such are in existence first. Everest is 6 miles high, so we’ll need 6 miles of depth. 6 miles = (5000 ft/mile), so that’s over 30,000 feet in about 1000 hours, or 30 FEET of rain PER HOUR for weeks on end. That’s heavy times 8,600!!! - wow, over two orders of magnitude more than just a “heavy rain” (Heavy rain is 2" per DAY, this is 360" per hour, or 8640" per day). Wait, I forgot about the “fountains of the deep”. OK, even though they are complete fantasy with no evidence to support them, even if they (somehow) supplied over half of the water, we are still talking about many FEET of rain an hour - several dozen times as heavy as just “heavy rain”.
This kind of deluge, over the entire earth, would certainly lead to obvious erosion and channels on higher elevations, like any elevation over, say 500 feet, since those areas would be above the water for a while, allowing erosion to occur. Plus, this would be found equally on young vs. old landforms, *areas of desert*, dry areas, etc. This would be so obvious that early geologists would have noticed it right away. Are there any geologists (or even just people who live on earth) who can verify that there isn’t a geologic sign of this hyper rain?
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Edited by Equinox, : realized that 15 feet in 1 hour is 360 feet in one day (24 hours).
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