The evidence for a global flood is overwhelming. You will not convince a sceptic. They have an answer for everything. The fake evidence industry has not helped (fake ark sightings and so on). The Grand Canyon is one of the best arguments for the global flood. Don't expect doubters to agree with it.
Yes the Global flood in the bible can be clearly seen in the sedimentary, that is water laid down rocks that cover the earth.
Yes. And people were not global at the time so "The whole world" was not that big of an area. Especially since the ark had no sail or motors, like a carnival cruise ship, the people who lived to tell the story were telling it from the perspective of a local passenger.
The rest of your lengthy post was spot on, but you didn't think this extract through. The Tigris-Euphrates valley is a flood plain. The clue is in the adjective. Flooding was regular, large floods occasional and catastrophic floods virtually guaranteed to occur at least once in a millennium.
There is a specific, extensive layer that has been recognised. Some workers have tried to tie this to Biblical flood, but the correlation is generally dismissed. I have read a couple of papers on it, but I don't seem to have kept copies. So, GCL's claim is true, inasmuch as the argument has been made, just not well enough to convince the majority of experts.
There are layers of flood silt in Mesopotamia from various spring flooding episodes. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meandered back and forth through the millennia shifting course. The mountains at their sources had snow pack that melted in the spring. Turkey has built dams reducing the river outflow to Iraq.
No, that is not evidence. That is an ad hoc explanation that is not supported by closer scrutiny of the sedimentary layers.
Thank you for sharing evidence which testifies for the truth of the Buddhist scriptures, which speak of global floods! "When the world is destroyed by water, the world of the Subhakinhas forms the limit to which the water rises. PSA.256."
