Faith,
The Flood goes a long way to explaining it a lot better than that piece of fantasy.
There is no evidence of a global flood. There is a great deal of contradicting evidence. Therefore even magic green elves explains it better than the flood, at least they aren't contradicted by evidence.
But science explains it even better.
It's all an imaginative leap and nothing more than that.
Indeed, the flood is exactly that.
Nobody knows what Archaeopteryx is.
The funny thing is, when you guys ask for fossil forms between taxa as predicted by evolution & get them, you then have to hand-wave away the evidence you yourselves asked for rather than honestly accept that what you said didn't exist, does.
Mark
There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those that understand binary, & those that don't