Did Noah's Flood Occur as Depicted in Genesis

I am arguing that the Noachian Flood Deluge as depicted in the biblical book of Genesis is a fable, with no basis in reality. My opponent is required to be a creationist who believes in a worldwide flood. He can not however, just ignore problems and say that God did it. He can't used faith as a justification for belief, and must prove it with evidence. Of course, positive claims require positive evidence, and that is what I expect.Meteorology and ThermodynamicsLeonard G. Soroka and Charles L. Nelson in their Physical Constraints on the Noachian Deluge examined four separate methods for flood waters, being rain, hypothermic springs, and two types of cometary impact. None of them work, due to excessive energy and heat.Rainfall ModelThe amount of water presently in the oceans is about 1.37 billion cubic kilometers, and to cover all the high mountains of the earth would require 4.4 billion additional cubic kilometers or approximately 3 times the amount of water present in the oceans. Not only would this make the air unbreathable due to it being 99.9% water vapor, atmospheric pressure being 840 times what it is now. Then take the latent heat of vaporization, when a kilogram of water vapor condenses and 2.26 million joules of energy are released. This is what powers thunderstorms and hurricanes. Condensing 4.4 billion cubic kilometers would create 10^26 joules of energy, making the planet 3500 degrees C, temporarily making the planet the second hottest object in the solar system. The oceans would boil and the ark would burn. Hydro Plate ModelHow about the hydro plate model, where all the water required to flood the Earth was put in the Earth's crust. Ignoring how the water got in that impossible position, what happens when you have highly pressurized water released. Assuming the water would be as hot as the water surrounding it, from the geothermic gradient the average temperature of the water would be approximately 1600 degrees C, steam cooking the planet before boiling everything alive. Cometary StrikesHow about a comet, large enough to contain the necessary water (Calculation 3). A spherical comet composed of this mass of frozen water would have a diameter of approximately 2100 km, or about twice as large as Texas, or more than the radius of the moon. A comet of this size would release the energy equivalent of 12 trillion megatons of TNT. One of the largest nuclear bombs, the Tsar Bomba, only could produce a maximum of 25 megatons or 480,000,000 times less than the proposed comet.How about a cometary hailstorm, causing mass tsunamis for 40 days and 40 nights? Though this would reduce the impact damage, it wouldn't reduce the potential energy of the comet. This would make the earth 6800 degrees C, temporarily making the earth's atmosphere hotter than the surface of the sun. http://nagt-jge.org...ArchaeologyYoung Earth creationists typically have used the James Usher model for calculating the age of the Earth. This was done by adding up all the chronologies, and days of creation. This is where they often get the 6000-10,000 year old Earth. But they typically disagree on the date of the flood at 1493 BC, since this is the approximate time of Moses. AiG puts the flood at 2370 BC, though some other creation ministries disagree. But either way, at this date, the Pyramid of Giza would have been built, flooded, and still be around just fine. This also means that the Egyptian's started their 6th dynasty while at the same time being drowned by billions of cubic kilometers of water. This also ignores the rise of the copper age, and the birth of Sargon and Gilgamesh.Biology/ZoologyFoodWhat would be done with koalas; who eat only eucalyptus leaves? What would be done with pandas; who eat bamboo almost exclusively? Did Noah have a greenhouse on the Ark before they invented greenhouses? The same problem applies to every herbivore. One must ask how they survive if their only food source is miles underwater. What would be done with predators such as lions, bears, alligators, crocodiles, cheetahs, and hyenas? Carnivores require a great deal of food to survive. With most species on the Ark, every time they would be fed there could very well be minor mass extinction. The only real creatures that would have abundant food would be termites and they can't eat the Ark. Even if Noah could separate the animals on the Ark, he couldn't do that once they were off the Ark. Predators would have a buffet of beasts to feast upon when the Ark landed, ruining all the work just put into making sure they were still alive. If only 1 member dies before being able to breed, the unclean species is done for due to the lack of a mate. As soon as all the prey is gone, then the predators are screwed since they don't have food.Evolution and Species DiversificationOf course, evolution is thrown out the window automatically, ignoring what 98% of all scientists in the American Association for the Advancement of Science who believe in the scientific process, as well as several popes.If all of the animals of the world repopulated in the Middle East after the flood, and went outward, why do we not see species diversification decrease the farther away from there. If Noah's Ark was true, why do we not see this? Additionally, one must ask how we don't have problems arising from excessive incest. Genetic defects and disfigurations would be common, due to major genetic bottle necks.MicrobesWere microbes on the Ark or not? Genesis makes no mention of them, either in the creation story or the flood. If Noah knew about microbes, this would at the very least require a microscope, something that wouldn't be invented at least till the late 15th century. And this would of course help explain that disease isn't caused by sin or the devil, rather germs. This may be something super helpful to write down in a book of wisdom. Additionally, microbes very specific needs, including refrigeration, incubation, high-pressure and low-pressure environments, incredibly diverse food substances (many which can't share the same space because some are toxic to others), diverse gas or fluid environments (again exclusive to each other, such as for aerobes and anaerobes). And please don't tell me Noah had a refrigerator full of deadly bacteria.One must also what happened with viruses. Unlike bacteria, viruses can hardly reproduce on their own and require a host. Who is the poor idiot who had to hold AIDS, Rabies, Smallpox, etc. Even if we ignore the high mortality rate for these viruses, there are of course a great deal of parasites, such as the human exclusive host parasite the African Eye Worm, which only survives by burrowing into human eyes. One must also wonder how to deal with parasites and viruses in other animals. If one gets infected with a debilitating disease, for most animals you just screwed the whole species (Maybe that's why there are no unicorns?). Fleas ticks, mites, mosquitoes and intestinal worms would all have a place on the ark, with abundant food sources by the way. InsectsWhat's the deal with insects? One must ask how Noah caught all these insects when butterfly nets were invented, but that isn't even the most major problem. Insects are the most diverse group of animals on the planet and include approximately 2,200 species of praying mantis, 5,000 dragonfly, 20,000 grasshopper, 82,000 true bug, 120,000 fly, 110,000 bee, wasp, ant and sawfly, 170,000 butterfly and moth, and 360,000 beetle species described to date. The number of extant species is estimated at between six and ten million, with over a million species already described. Taking the very lowest number, 6 million bugs are quite an insect collection. Aquatic SpeciesOne must ask how ocean life dealt with salinity changes, turbulence, massive pressure changes, sediment accumulation, and habitat destruction.EngineeringStructural Stability and Required MaterialsOne must wonder how a ship more than half the size of the Titanic could even supply this amount of wood. The Middle East isn't exactly known for it's forests. Add to this that the largest wooden ship ever built, The Wyoming, was 450 ft long, and required iron braces and mechanical pumps to prevent the hull from flooding. And it still flooded. One must ask how some of the best ship makers to ever live couldn't even come close Noah, a pre dark age senior citizen. Let's take a more similar example. Ken Ham's AiG created a life size ark, sadly on land. No real life test. But never the less, construction took more than a year-and-a-half and involved more than 1,000 craftspeople, in order to build an Ark that only housed stuffed animals. And remember, this is 1,000 modern workers, with actual technology. Noah didn't exactly have hydraulic cranes, forklifts, buzz saws, steam pile drivers, bolt cutters, or nail guns, did he? Add to this that these workers didn't need to worry about where their next meal was coming from. How could 8 people without real technology accomplish an even greater feat than what 1,000 workers could do with modern technology?Methane PoisoningOf course, one has to deal with the problem of methane and extrement. Without proper ventilation, methane buildup would occur, killing everyone via methane poisoning. And again, it's kinda hard to make advanced ventialation without ventilation nor air conditioning being invented yet.