Let me just ask: If you were as absolutely convinced of the truth of the Bible account of the flood as a fundamentalist is, absolutely without a doubt knowing that it happened as described, knowing that God is the inspirer of the whole thing, how would you go about answering science's contention that it didn't happen?
This is difficult for me to answer as I've never had that sort of blind belief in anything, but I'll give it a try.
I
think my approach would be to concede that in terms of the evidence that can be examined by science it
appears there never was a flood.
This means there has to be a reason for this - God is fooling us for some reason or Satan planted the evidence
[1] or something else entirely that just hasn't been revealed to us yet.
To those who argue that the first option turns the Christian God into Loki The Deceiver I would say it is arrogant of us to presume to know or judge God's motives or methods.
I know this donesn't apply to you personally but I think the reason such a view point would never gain widespread support amongst the Biblical literalists (especially in the US) is it would torpedo their plan to get Christianity into the American school system using Creationism/ID as a Trojan Horse.
[1]Within the last ten years a guy where I work went from being not at all religious to being a born-again fundy. He firmly believes that dinosaur fossils are planted by Satan to mislead us, so I know this viewpoint exists albeit in a slightly different context.
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