It's great to see things turn harsh and then turn softer 
The only thing I'll throw in here is in response to:
Quote: By the way, the bible records that the foutains of the deep burst forth cracking open the surface of the earth when the flood occured. Which accounts for the missing water needed to flood the entire surface. Here the bible records the breaking of pangea. Hence the arrival of the tectonic plates. Your statments earlier are not only correct but the bible backs you up. I just thought I'd pass that along.
You can believe whatever you want, just understand that science does not back this up in any way... here is a good refuting of it (and other) creation science attempts to reconcile their world view with science.
Quote: The current thinking of the young creationist geologists is perhaps best shown in a paper co-authored by six of them, including Austin, Morris, and Wise (Austin et al., 1994). Their "tentative" model of "Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: A Global Flood Model of Earth History" starts about 6,000 years ago with a pre-flood earth differentiated into core, mantle, and a crust with horizontal segregation into granitic continents and basaltic ocean basins. "If this differentiation had occurred by any natural means, the gravitational energy released ... would produce enough heat to melt the earth's crust and vaporize the earth's oceans. ...it most certainly occurred before the creation of organisms (at the latest Day 3 of the creation week.)" The authors note that "even though such differentiation could have been performed by God without the 'natural' release of gravitational potential energy" the differentiation process provides a natural driving mechanism for the proposed next stages of rapid motion, the Noachian flood. This was initiated as slabs of oceanic floor broke loose and subducted along the edges of continents. Deformation of the mantle by these slabs raised the temperature and lowered its viscosity into a runaway convection system which overturned the whole mantle. Upwelling mantle plumes created the mid-oceanic ridges, drove plate tectonics at rates of "meters per second," and discharged magmatic steam into the atmosphere to cause the flood. Tidal waves washed the continents and piled marine sediments into great mountain systems along the edges. In a few hundred years after the flood, residual heat from the cooling ocean floor warmed the oceans and climate into a system characterized by efficient atmospheric transport of moisture to the poles to create glaciation and ice caps.
The thermal problems of this model are mind boggling. At the start, gravitative energy released by earth's differentiation into core and mantle would raise average temperature of the entire globe by 2,500 degrees (Birch, 1965). To this must be added the frictional heating of the runaway subduction plus the massive heat of condensation of a collapsing vapor canopy. Then brand new basaltic ocean floors at minimum temperatures of 1,100 degrees C. had to form over 2/3 of the earth's surface, presumably beneath non-boiling flood waters. Finally this massive thermal pulse dissipated in a few thousand years by unstated processes to leave most of the earth's surface devoid of hot springs or abnormal heat flow. The authors apologize that their "model is still in the formative stages and thus is incomplete." From a thermal viewpoint "incomplete" seems like gross exaggeration. An incandescent earth with an asbestos ark floating on a sea of molten lava would be more appropriate!
source: http://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/wise.htm
(the primary article http://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/creation.html, a Christian)
Creation Science is not the same as Science. There are huge issues with believing in a "Global" flood. Some of those are textual ones. The context of the story is the people Noah knew, obviously he didn't know people outside of his travels, so it's likely that concepts are based on the context of the story, a flood that effected all of his world. An example of this in the Gospels is Luke 2:1... here are three translation, note that NIV decides to translate it in context, since it is ridiculous outside of context:
Luke 2:1
New American Standard Bible
Quote: Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth.
KJV
Quote: And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
NIV
Quote: In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
Obviously the context is the entire Roman Empire, which is why NIV translates it as such and NASB has a note suggesting that's what is intended... yet if you forget context then this concept becomes ridiculous, that Caesar would decree to those in other continents possibly that he didn't eve know existed? Those on islands, etc...
There is no theological, textual, or scientific reason to believe in a "Global Flood", at least the concept of "Global" we have. Though to the people of the time their entire World may have been flooded and we even have some prime historical candidates that fit the time and place. A modern concept of "Global Flood" however has no scientific backing and in fact has science that challenges it at every turn.
Just felt I should present the apposing view.
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