Global warming alarmists say that melting of all the
snow and ice would cause the oceans to rise 216 feet. And the atmosphere has
enough water vapor to add less than 2 inches to every square foot of earth. So,
any mark much higher than 216 feet is neither Biblical nor possible.
The record rainfall for any place in the world is
less than 74 inches in a 24-hour period in the Indian Ocean on March 16, 1952. (Guinness Book of World Records,
1994) If it rained all over the world at that
rate for 40 days, 247 feet of rain would fall, which is almost 3,000 times the
water contained in the atmosphere. If nature poured all the water on earth and
in the sky into the ocean, it would still fall short of 300 feet. So, the most
likely truth is that the waters rose only 16 cubits as the Bible says (21 to 23
feet) on the flat plains of Iraq/Kuwait where the "high" hills were
low enough to all be covered.
Apparently Planet Earth did even try to focus its
water on Noah's neighborhood. It would take hundreds of years to melt the largest glaciers even in the warmest of historical conditions. Glacial ice was found in Antarctica that stayed
frozen for 8 million years. (Discover Magazine)
And there are a several hundred thousand glaciers older than Noah's flood. A good guess would be that one or more glacial lakes in the mountains broke ice melted by a very warm deluge and together local natural elements combined to deliver one of large floods in the area. Archeologists have found several candidate flood layers that are much thicker than ordinary seasonal flood layers. However, without a precise date on Noah's flood, it is difficult to tell which flood layer was laid down by his flood.