okay, thnx, i'll look into it

Not really, no. Geology generally suggests that fossilization is a slow process that is circumstantial. Also, the Great Flood was most likely a reference to the last glaciation period, which was roughly around the time people were beginning to settle down and were domesticating crops. The flood heavily impacted the Black Sea and the modern-day Persian Gulf, which would have been mostly dry land with fertile river valleys where some of the first settlements could have existed. However, when sea levels rose, those regions were flooded and the fertile land would have been lost. In some cases, such as with the Black Sea, it would have been rapid flooding with the entire basin flooding within a year or less.

When you say fossilization, do you mean the process of dirt piling on top of a once living creature or do you mean the process of the once living creature turning to stone? So do you think the flood was a local flood then and not global?

Making diamonds is a full fledged industry now

I believe the flood was global and significantly altered the landscape, perhaps even the separation, joining, rise and fall of landmasses

Genesis 7:11 says something to the effect of all of the fountains/springs of the great deep burst forth/broken up, and that's not rain.

That kinda massive cataclysm and movement of the landmasses themselves would create a lot of pressure on whatever was caught between them

The Pacific Islanders were rocked a few years ago by that wave caused by an earthquake. I want to say it was the Philippines and/or Indonesia specifically. Imagine a continent breaking into like 5 pieces and the water displacement that would cause.

The global flood is also supported by following human migration patterns. We know that various groups of people migrated from around modern day Turkey outward. As they traveled, the people named geographic locations after Noah and his sons. Now the places aren’t called Noah Mountain or Ham River, but they’re derivations of their names in the language of the people group that named it. This isn’t necessarily proof of the flood, but it supports the Tower of Babel.

yea, you can even turn the ashes of your loved ones into diamonds

India got hit by that too, a lot of places did

The whole Pacific rim I think

Ah ok. I just remember the islands because of the news talking about how bad it was for them.

There isn't enough water in the world to cover every land mass, and if there was it would be higher than Mt. Everest, which means the water levels would be so high in altitude it would freeze.

However, there are accounts in various ancient religions about a great flood.

Which means Noah and his family weren't the only survivors.

I also suspect it had to do with the ending of an ice age, thus causing massive amounts of ice to melt.

It didn’t just rain. Water came from under the ground. And the mountains were created by the sudden ripping and crashing of Pangea’s plates. The other cultures with the flood story come from Noah’s descendants. The ice age was also most likely created by the flood changing the climate.

There’s evidence of a source of water under the ground. In the last few years I remember seeing a story of rocks that can only be formed in the presence of water that burst out of the ground. I’ll see if I can find it.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25723-massive-ocean-discovered-towards-earths-core/ Not familiar with this page, but it’s the first one I saw. A similar story was all over the place when this ringwoodite rock appeared.

Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson on joe rogan

Regardless

If all the water flooded the earth it would raise too high in altitude, and the world would freeze.

It would be stuck like that.

Also

Where did all that water go?

Did god just 'make it disappear'

Or was there a gaping hole in our crust from the mantle?

The loss of water in the crust would destabilize the crust and cause massive collapses to such an extent that massive creators would have formed globally.

Craters*

And agreed.

Meaning that many, if not all, of the continents would have caved in on themselves and wouldn’t exist.

Honestly, I think it was from when all the ice caps melted, and it covered a large portion of the world, as not every ancient religion has a story about a great flood.

That is most likely it.

It was mainly eastern and middle eastern religions, too.

The water just went back under the crust to the mantle. And you’re assuming that Mount Everest has always been there. It was formed from the crashing of the plates. The water level wouldn’t need to be high enough to cover a Mount Everest.

Genesis 7: 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

The death on this global flood scale is most likely where our fossil record comes from.

But every mountaintop was covered in water, or else he would have been able to find land.

The mountain tops were created as the separation was calming down. He could just as likely landed on Mount Everest or the Rocky Mountains or even the alps. His boat just landed around modern day Turkey most likely.

Pangea was ripped apart to let the water out from the mantle. Then as everything settled, the water went back to the mantle and the plates continued to move.