It is the YEC's who claim that a proper scientific interpretation of the evidence points to a young Earth and a recent global flood.
If that isn't the case, then you are admitting that the scientific evidence points to an old Earth, and that scientists are properly interpreting the evidence from a scientific point of view. Is that the case?
Flooding is not the issue here. The modern world as we know it began around 12 thousand years ago when there was massive flooding and a massive extinction event, the sixth extinction. As always God repopulates the earth with a small remnant of what was here in the last age or era. The problem is to get the dates to line up. For example:
• During the Ice Age, Ryan and Pitman argue,
the Black Sea was an isolated freshwater lake surrounded by farmland.
• About 12,000 years ago, toward the end of the Ice Age, Earth began growing warmer. Vast sheets of
ice that sprawled over the Northern Hemisphere began to melt. Oceans and seas grew deeper as a result.
• About 7,000 years ago the
Mediterranean Sea swelled. Seawater pushed northward, slicing through what is now Turkey.
• Funneled through the narrow Bosporus, the water hit the Black Sea with
200 times the force of Niagara Falls. Each day the Black Sea rose about six inches (15 centimeters), and coastal farms were flooded.
Noah lived about 4300 years ago in Ancient Mesopotamia. If you go to the Ancient City of Ur you will find a flood layer that is a lot closer to Noah's flood. Different areas seem to have flooded at different times as the glaciers melted.
