Yeah, I appreciate that I am not doing the greatest job of this.
Yes.
That's pretty close.
Walt Brown has four phases of the flood: Rupture, Flood, Drift, and Recovery.
Rupture was when the fountains broke up the previously global crust.
Ah. "Broke up", I hadn't thought of that. The 'first', antediluvian crust "broke up" during "Rupture". That provides another 'degree of freedom' in this inquiry.
For you I'll clarify that I mean to with this thread provide something akin to the inverse of my 'alternative theory' to Christ's Resurrection being factual. (In that case, if the Resurrection is fictional, it's simply too simplistic to just say it's a hoax, because such a hoax has no reason in it, unless you conceive of one, and my conception is that the only 'modus operandi' 'MO' that holds water is a 'suicide pact' with Jesus, Judas, John the Baptist, and all the Apostles including Paul. Basically everyone killed or otherwise dispatched in the New Testament was involved. Then, you still need a reason for the pact, and that would have to be something that worked. In other words, you can't just imagine or assume that they attempted in their pact to accomplish something that failed, like to convert everybody to the Old Covenant for instance. It has to be something that 'stuck', so my mind wanders toward something like the then widespread idolatry. The presence in the world of all sorts of temples with altars and priests offering sacrifices to false gods might 'ruffle the feathers' enough of a group of very devout Jewish men, maniacally jealous for their own God over all the others. If that is what they attempted to accomplish through their suicide pact, then that might begin to make sense as to why they would collectively and wittingly participate in the plot, which features the Resurrection as a key part of the story. Basically all the idolatrous practices have disappeared. They succeeded, if this was what they were trying to do, in the 'alternative theory' if the Resurrection is fictional.)
Anyway this kind of alternative theory comes from 'playing devil's advocate'. And it really makes people think, whether or not they're already Christians, it basically 'makes it real' for them, to really 'get into the headspace' of what we're all really talking about really happening.
As far as this thread's concerned, either the Flood really happened or it didn't. So if it did happen (if we are to take the Bible literally, like how we all take the Bible literally when it reports that Jesus is risen) then how? We already have the 'majority report' that it never happened and that party's own 'alternative theory' to the global Flood, which is akin to my Resurrection alternative theory 'suicide pact' set out above.
The details of how Christ was raised escape us, we only know that He was eventually recognized, and that His body was now 'glorified' and 'spiritual', which doesn't mean His scars were absent----they are still there in His glorified and spiritual body.
Basically we only have an earth that hopefully still retains its own 'scars' from the Flood. If we can identify them positively as 'scars', then I think we'll have achieved what I'm hoping we can do here.
Drift was when the hydroplates (basically the two halves of the crust) moved.
Recovery is isostasy in action.
When you say "crust" to an establishment Earth scientist, he will talk about a global feature that has essentially zero-width cracks in it. My analogies are somewhat aimed at that understanding.
I'm level zero geology. Alluding to Kung Fu Panda, when Shifu tells Po, "There is now a 'level zero'". That's me in geology.
So what you're saying here with "zero-width cracks" sounds like 'faults' and has to do with 'tectonic plates'?
It is an honor to be able to reciprocate on the help you have shared.
Mutual, tyvm Stripe.
I've been thinking more about what would constitute strong, substantive, sustaining corroborating evidence----this is what the 'scars' would be. One thing I thought of was, is there any reason why rainbows would only appear on an earth covered by 70% sea, but not on an earth covered with only like 7% or 0.7% surface water? iow can we calculate whether the first large scale rainbows happened because of the Flood's residual water, the world ocean? Do rainbows only happen on a 'blue' earth but not a 'green' one?
