[QUOTE][B]I'm afraid that I do. The evidence is overwhelmingly against there having been a recent global flood. The evidence for it is absolutely zero.[/QUOTE]
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I concur.
A global flood would have changed *everything*. The geologic column would have been turned into something completely unlike what we see today. Fossils would be sorted by density, not by their evolutionary order of arrival. There would be a layer of bones and teeth, and then a layer with all the wood, then a layer of chalk and diatoms. These three layers would cover the entire land surface of Earth. And they would be filled with graded bedding. Then when the water retreated it would have turned the topography of every continent on Earth into channeled scabland. Plus you have all kinds of problems, like where the water came from and where it went. You also have to explain how fossil reefs far inland managed to grow tens of meters thick during this flood (coral grows millimeters per year and dies when exposed to even slight amounts of suspended sediment, when the temperature drops, or when the light is cut out).
Biogeography would be messed up as well. Every species of desert life would be present in the Middle East, and you would have to explain things like why certain species are only found on certain islands, if they had to migrate through the deserts (and across the oceans) to arrive on that THAT island, and only THAT island.
You have the genetic bottleneck problem, in explaining how much genetic diversity there are in some species if their population was reduced to eight individuals in the last few thousand years. You have the parasite problem. The fragile insect problem.
And then you have problems with physics, like what Earth's atmosphere would have been like before the flood if all that limestone had to be deposited during the flood. You have to have all that water condense as rain without broiling Noah (latent heat of condensation, to the tune of 600 cal/gram). And you have to have Noah at all caring and feeding all those baby dinosaurs, and then rebuilding the planetary ecosystem from scratch.
There are problems with a young Earth as well.
During those 6000 years of Earth history you have dozens of caldera explosions and the Earth being struck by more than 120 asteroids and comets large enough to form craters -- yet historically no craters have been observed forming, though there "should" be a new (big) one every 50 years. There's a miracle, the cratering stops at the dawn of history!
It's worse for the Moon, which has thousands of craters. In the old Earth time scale Earth and Moon are hit about the same number of times (per square kilometer) but Earth's surface is active so most of ours get erased. But if the Earth and Moon are both 6000 years old what happened to all the Earth's other craters? And how did we get bombarded like the Moon and Adam and Eve didn't notice?
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