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There is no mention of a dividing of the land mass until Genesis 10:25 when it tells us the Earth was divided in the days of Peleg.
Peleg was born 100 years after the flood. He lived to be 239 years old. If those numbers are correct The division of the land mass could have taken place any time during his life time.
So according to the Bible account the land mass was all in one place when the flood took place. The land mass was divided somewhere from 100 to 329 years after the flood.
With the land mass all in one place at the time of the flood and then being divided as it is today what would you expect to find in your search for a global flood?
Stop and think about that for a moment, then consider the global implications for having the plates move in such a short period of time. For the sake of argument (and somewhat easy mathematics) suppose the continents had to move 1000 miles (a very conservative estimate) in 500 years. That comes out to the following numbers:
1,000 Miles
500 Years
2 Miles/Year
10,560 Feet/Year
28.9 Feet/Day
347.2 Inches/Day
881.8 Centimeters/Day
321,868.8 Centimeters/Year
Guess how much continents move now? About 10cm at the most PER YEAR. What you are saying is that every day for 500 years the continents would have moved 80 times what they move in ONE YEAR and over a year 32,000 times as much!??? Compress that down any further and the numbers become unimaginably large.
Can you imagine the tsunami's that would be generated from such movement? Factor in the constant earthquakes, tremendous increase in volcanic activity, mountain ranges forming, etc, it would be hard to imagine how man would survive it.
You see it's one thing to say that the continents just broke apart and made their way to where they are now. It's something else entirely to get them to do it in a short period of time and still leave someone alive to tell about it later (so casually as to mention it in one sentence in the bible). 2012 (that Cusack flick) might be in Michael Bay territory but that seems to be what you are proposing.
For all your sincerity there comes a point when what you say is no longer plausible. Unless of course there was some divine intervention, but that's really just another "What if", that Coyote is trying to avoid.