Did the Flood really happen?

Does it indeed. Can I have a source for that please?Just while you're finding that, are we working on the same time scales? Noah's Flood was about 4,500 years ago?How old do you think the earth is?

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Look up geologic term: "continental aggregation".
No. Excellent point. We are not talking about the time scale of Noah as we know it now.I am only talking about the possibility of having the global flood. Edited by Juvenissun, : No reason given.

No thanks, it's up to you to make your case. Just explain to us why you think 'continental aggregation' can show that a global flood happened. Then you have me more than usually confused. When was the global flood that we're talking about? Generally it's supposed to be about 4,500 years ago

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Cautious scholars are still working to settle a few final time tangles, but their success so far suggests that the Bible’s verifiable time stamps reach back even further than Abraham.4 The lifespans in Genesis 11 span from Abram back to the Flood. When we add the years listed in Genesis 11 to Abram’s birth year 2166 B.C., we get about 2472 B.C.

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When Did Noah's Flood Happen? | The Institute for Creation Research

Noah's Flood is a BIG issue. It includes several major issues and many minor issue. The whole story is closely related to the whole Christian doctrine. So, the exploration HAS TO be restricted to one major (or even minor issue at a time). That is why most (if not all) talks about Noah's Flood are a total confusion.Do not ask about time, only talk about the possibility and mechanism of the global flood. People usually abandon this discussion even it is very focused.First, we must agree that a global flood is possible. This is the seawater problem.
Then, we must see how to make it possible. This is the land problem.Continental Aggregation: A tectonic process through which a continent on the earth becomes larger and larger. If you want to know more, then ask specific question. Edited by Juvenissun, : No reason given.

Only to a few fundamental Christians. Other Christians regard it as a myth and non-Christians have never heard of it. It really isn't very complicated at all, either a global flood occurred or it didn't. If you think it did, then I'm sure you have the evidence to prove it. So give it your best shot. Ok, so you can't say when this flood was. That's a bad start. Are you disputing the normal dates of about 4,500 years ago? It does matter. Many things are possible. Personally I don't think a global flood is one of them, but I'm listening if you can prove it. There are a lot of problems. I think your biggest one is providing the evidence of a global flood at all. You have to show how this is relevant. This is a process that occurs over hundreds of millions of years so you see why it's important for you to say whether you agree with the 'normal' timings for this flood or not.

How does subduction figure in to that? My understanding is that continents - and tectonic plates in general - are growing on one side and shrinking (subducting) on the other, leaving their size roughly constant.

The continents hadn't fully formed and, as I vaguely recall, the tectonics hadn't gotten rolling. This is in the first billion years or 2 but all of this is from memory which is worth just as much as you think it is .

As an oceanic plate subducts by a continent, it can be carrying bits of land such as islands or a bit of larger land that it rams against the continent.
A great example of that is India plowing into Asia to increase the latter's size.
Part of China used to be adjacent to eastern Australia.
A lot changes over a couple of billion years.
The actual place where the plate bends to subduct can also roll back to change the size of the plateEdited by Pollux, : Spelling

No. Once a piece of continent is made, it will not disappear, even it may split into smaller pieces. That is why the land (continent) on the earth becomes larger and larger through time.Subduction only makes more continental mass. It is the key process of continental growth. Edited by Juvenissun, : No reason given.Edited by Juvenissun, : No reason given.

But Juvenissun is saying that, "the land (continent) on the earth becomes larger and larger through time." Message 1916My understanding is that the continents are rearranging their pieces but not changing significantly in total size. Gondwanaland was pretty much the same size as all of today`s continents, wasn`t it)

That's what I'm questioning. Do you have any evidence that that is happening?And even if it is true, I don't see what that has to do with the Flood being possible.

Places on continent have different apparent ages. Do you see that is an evidence?If it is true, then, would you think to flood out a smaller continent is much easier than to do the same to a much larger continent?Edited by Juvenissun, : No reason given.

The oldest continent is measured about 4.x billion years old. Gondawanaland is about 0.3 billion years old. So, there was about 3.x billion years of time to allow the Gondawanaland to "grow" into its size.Yes, today's land IS slightly larger than that at 300 million years ago. Do you live in the US? The North America continent became a slightly larger in the recent few millions of years. Edited by Juvenissun, : No reason given.