The TRVE history of the Flood...

That has always struck me as the funniest of the gymnastics in the creationist clown show. "Evolution is impossible because it happens much faster than you think."

I was addressing what I quoted - i.e. your claim that the only evolution is microevolution. The irony is that in order to "disprove" macroevolution you have to pretend that microevolution happened impossibly fast after the flood.Maybe you're too young to remember but creationists used to deny microevolution too. Creation is a slippery slope.

The Bible doesn't say that.

That's exactly what the bible says:

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Genesis 6:7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

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Genesis 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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Here on the prairies we have rocks coming up out of the earth all the time, lifted by the freeze/thaw cycle. They were originally eroded smooth and brought here by glaciers and then lots and lots of sediment was deposited on top of them. How could a single flood event accomplish all of that?

As I said, the rocks are buried down there in the sediment. If the sediment came from the flood, how did the rocks get down there?

I did. Genesis 6:7 and Genesis 6:13 show that God's intention was "the end of all flesh". Forty days and nights of rain, along with the fountains of the deep, was the means to that end. If you're saying that the fountains of the deep were plain old ordinary everyday springs, you're shooting yourself in the foot. All they do is recycle water and there ain't enough of it for the flood as described in Genesis. Floodists have to make up magical fountains shooting water from magical subterranean oceans to account for the depth of water.

And the "eruption" of the fountains of the deep was a part of that idea. There's no reason to think there ever were any. It's just a made-up fantasy. If God miraculously turned the fountains on and off, why do you say anything about science at all? Why not just say God poofed the water into existence and then poofed it out of existence?

The "division of the earth" refers to the proliferation of languages after the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11). It has nothing to do with land masses.

We're talking about the supposed "fountains of the deep" and edge called it an eruption. We're using HIS concept of an eruption, not yours. The Bible doesn't say that.

You don't know why the author chose a certain word. You don't know what he was trying to point out.The mention of the earth being divided is in the context of the story of the Tower of Babel. If the author was concerned about conveying his intentions, he woulda/coulda/shoulda been careful about the context.He did say in Genesis 10:32, "These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood." The NATIONS were divided, not the land they lived on.

I'm just pointing out where you're wrong. You don't have to respond. That doesn't say anything about God providing enough water for the Flood.

There can be a lot of reasons. I've been known to change a word on this forum just to avoid a line break.Words are flexible. Meanings change. It's ridiculous to pretend that you can know exactly what somebody meant thousands of years ago because of one word. Why did he talk about dividing nations instead of dividing land? That's the context. The context is more important than your attempts at Hebrew scholarship. You're shooting yourself in the foot. In English, divide and separate can be used more-or-less interchangeably. Why can two different Hebrew words not be used for the same concept?Remember that the ONLY context for both words is the division/separation of the nations after the Tower of Babel. One reference in Job does not mean that one word can ONLY mean separation of water. What you think doesn't matter. The division of the earth in Genesis has nothing to do with Pangea. Pangea separated long before there was any civilization.

I've already showed you that your interpretation makes no sense in context. The division happened long after the Flood, so it doesn't make sense to tie it physically to the Flood. And since the time of Peleg coincides nicely with the time of the Tower of Babel, it makes much more sense to connect those two events.Once again, Pangea separated long before there were any civilized people on the earth. Even IF the Bible said what you claim, it DOES NOT agree with science.

If you don't understand what the English word "magic" means, why should anybody accept what you say about the meaning of Hebrew words?