THIS STYLE IS DELIBERATE. I don't use it when I post stuff under my real name.
CLAIMS AND EVIDENCE ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. It is not my fault that you seem unable to understand that difference.
NOT EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS WRONG. I once met an Egyptian fellow whose very name consisted of, basically, all the names of his male forebears for something like 20 previous generations. And so I doubt that the genalogies listed in the Bible are incorrect. On the other hand, such mundane stuff has absolutely nothing to do with qualifying as "Word of God" stuff. You cannot find anyone who claims God literally sat down somewhere and wrote the Bible. Humans wrote 100% of it. And that means every single
claim in it about God, which cannot be supported with external evidence (like the Flood), is suspect, not to be believed just because of mere say-so.
HOW DID THE BIBLE SAY THEY COULD BE IDENTIFIED? Duuuuuuuhhhhhh!!! If you insist the Bible is true, then you must accept that when Biblical descriptions match real observations....
EXCEPT I SPECIFIED MUCH-OLDER CITIES THAN THAT. Jericho, for example, right there in Canaan, is
known to have been continuously occupied for more than 10,000 years.
Ancient cities tend to have many layers of ruins under them, and if a Flood had intervened at Jericho, one of those layers would be full of ancient dried mud. Too bad there isn't such a layer.
NOPE. I'm simply aware that 40 days of Flood is plenty of time to allow fresh water added to the salty oceans (regardless of where the fresh water came from) to
mix with salty ocean water, all over the world. Not to mention that even without the salt, 40 days submerged is enough to drown almost any land-plant.
IGNORANTLY FALSE. There are geologic processes that remove salt from oceans. For one, "
subduction" causes both land and salty ocean water to flow deeper underground. The water is literally a lubricant helping the process. Far from the subduction zone the Earth's interior heat causes the water to rise, gradually through rocks (can emerge via geyser, for example), but the salt stays down there.
FOR ANOTHER, gradually moving geological plates can sometimes block whole sections of ocean water in such a way that it can evaporate, leaving the salt behind. The exposed "salt flat" then gets gradually covered with blowing dust (which weighs less than salt crystals), and if this layer becomes thick enough, even if the ocean manages to return, that salt is now locked away, and generally stays locked away.
This description has happened to the Mediterranean Sea more than once --see where that linked article talks about "layers of salt", because each separate layer resulted from a dried-out sea.
Other places where similar events happened have been subjected to geological uplift, and are now both above sea level, and might be getting mined for salt.
