The Biblical Flood occurred

As I mentioned earlier, my job is to provide proofs for the Biblical flood. Remember, Con is only allowed to provide refutations. He cannot provide any contentions. Now, I will proceed to provide the said proofs. A. Mathematical proofAs per Genesis 9:18-19, the entire world was repopulated by Noah's children Shem, Ham, and Japheth (1). One may usually think that we could not have so many people if the entire world was repopulated by a few people, but the mathematical works below prove that misconception wrong. Here, we have the formula for the population growth (2). Now, we don't know the growth rate in order for Noah's children to reach the current population. So, we must solve for r. (I used the "solve" command on my TI-nspire CAS. )7,000,000,000 = 6e^r4500 *We have "4500" for time since it's been approximately 4500 years since the flood occurred (3). We have 7,000,000,000 as the final population since that's how about how many people there are today (4). We have "6" since Shem, Ham, and Japheth repopulated the world with their respective wives. After solving for r, we get:r = 0.004639425893Since the growth rate is supposed to be a percentage, we multiply r by 100. We get:r = 0.4639425893Now, we can use the rate to put it into a compound formula: 6(1+0.4639425893/100)^n*n = amount of time, which is 4500 years in this case6(1+0.4639425893/100)^4500 = 6,670,066,345.47 people. This is VERY close to the current population. If the biblical flood did not occur, then there would have been more people. If there were more people back then, then we should be having more people in THIS day and age. B. Sea creatures in high altitudesIn the Bible, Genesis 7:24 says that the waters covered the earth (5), and Genesis 7:20 includes that the mountains were covered too (6). Several scientific findings prove the Biblical flood true. For example, we see that marine fossils are found in places way above the sea levels, such as the Grand Canyon (7) and the Himalayan mountains (8). In order for sea level creatures to be found in such high places, the flood waters must have brought them all the way up to the mountains (as a result of the rising sea floors). Genesis 8:3 says that the waters receded after the flood period was over (9), so this would mean that the marine fossils stayed there dry and high until they become fossilized. See the illustration below to understand what I am talking about (10): The surge of molten rocks there can be described by Genesis 7:11 (11), which says that the "fountains of the deep were broke up". The break-up of the earth's crust not only releases a lot of water, but also molten rocks (12). Without this surge, the marine creatures would not have ended up there. Con must answer how marine creatures can end up in mountains even though they are supposed to be in the sea. C. Historical proofs This is one of my favorite proofs. Normally, many critics use the existence of other flood stories (such as the Epic of Gilgamesh) to disprove the Biblical flood, thinking that the Bible copied off of them. However, the truth is that they don't really disprove the Bible, but in fact supports the Biblical conclusion that there was a global deluge. They act as many different accounts of the flood event contributing to the historical validity of it. These flood stories are found in every continent. Even the most geographically isolated places, such as Australia, the Americas, China (isolated due to many natural barriers (13)) have their respective flood stories (14). This goes to show that the descendants who moved to the isolated places (as they go on to refill the earth) remember the reality that their righteous ancestors faced against the flood waters. Even though each flood story may have some distorted details here and there, many of them still have main reasons why the flood occurred (such as divine retribution). When different cultures have the same story in their folklore, that logically means that they had a common ancestor that faced the event. Con must answer how so many different cultures can have their own flood stories and not consider them as historical proofs. ConclusionOnce again, I thank Envisage for accepting this debate. I believe I have provided sufficient evidence why Biblical deluge story was a real event. Envisage must refute each point that I made. Sources1. . https://www.biblegateway.com...2. . http://www.coolmath.com...3. . http://creation.com...4. . http://blogs.census.gov...5. . https://www.biblegateway.com...6. . https://www.biblegateway.com...7. R. L. Hopkins, and K. L. Thompson, “Kaibab Formation,” in Grand Canyon Geology, 2nd ed. , eds. S. S. Beus and M. 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