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Its impossible for the whole planet to have been covered in water since humans have been alive. We'd be able to see the resulting genetic bottleneck in all the organisms alive today. The fact that the genetic bottleneck is absent proves that modern organisms did not stem from a small group. Ergo, no Flood. Its a myth. It never happened. Get over it.

Biologists can detect genetic bottlenecks that happened to species in the past.If The Flood occured, then we'd see a genetic bottleneck in all the species affected by The Flood appearing from the same time in the past.We do not see that genetic bottleneck, therefore The Flood could not have occured.

Those ancient civilizations found the fossilized bones of those dinosaurs, not living ones.Its like with the cyclops stemming from a wooly mammoth skull: That's not actually an eye socket there in the middle, but we can see how ancient civilizations would have thought it was.It is fascinating to see a stegosaurus in some old rock art. But they got that imagery from finding a skeleton, not from living with them.Fun fact: The time between when the stegosaurus lived (150 mya) and when the T-Rex lived, is longer that the time when the T-Rex lived (65 mya) and right now. We are closer in time to the T-Rex than the T-Rex was to the stegosaurus.

In before Paluxy.

Um, I can't really show you the lack of something, but check this out:

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The cheetah is unusual among fields in exhibiting near genetic uniformity at a variety of loci previously screened to measure population genetic diversity. It has been hypothesized that a demographic crash or population bottleneck in the recent history of the species is causal to the observed monomorphic profiles for nuclear coding loci.
Just a moment...

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The cheetah is unusual in having the bottleneck. That means that almost all of the other species do not have it. Of course. Where's this 14 number coming from? I'm not getting this question.

Ignorance. Older civs wouldn't have known that the bones were of really old and extinct animals.

It doesn't matter if there was a global flood at the PT boundary because that couldn't be The Flood^TM because there were no people alive at the PT boundary.

Not according to the Bible:

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Gen 6:7 So the Lord said, I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have createdand with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the groundfor I regret that I have made them."

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Regarding genetic bottlenecks:

Does this mean that you're dropping that whole "are there more that 14 alleles" argument from Message 132?

No, 4500 years is not enough to produce the diversity we have today. That proves that there was no global flood 4500 years ago.