Gen 8:5 'And the waters decreased continually until the tenth
month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the
month, were the tops of the mountains seen.'
As far as I can see the Bible says nothing about valleys
lowering and mountains rising. It says the waters went away.
As far as there being sufficient waters ... could you show or
link to the calculations used to obtain this figure?
Geological evidence seems to suggest that the sea levels have
consistently (and during some periods rapidly) risen
over the last 18000 years or so ... not receded. Submerged
coastlines tend to confirm such.
As far as I am aware (astronomers correct me if wrong) the relative
positions of the stars to the earth have been changing quite
happily for millenia (billenia I suppos
) and explainable without
a catastrophic axis shift. I admit I could be wrong on that
one, but ...
A possible explanation for deeply frozen plants in antartica is
that they grew there when they could, were frozen/buried then frozen,
and climate changes continued toward freezey conditions ... doesn't
that sound reasonable and simple enough?