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The word "apparently" suggests that that is the way things "appear".According to the way things appear - i.e. through observation in the present, water can not sort everything. For example, water can not sort footprints into the strata. Water sorting is only one effect that does appear. it is not enough to explain everything that appears.I think what you meant to say was, "Wishfully the water sorted things, wishfully water is capable of doing that."

The problem for creationists is to expalin why the scablands are so different from the Grand Canyon.

The key word there is "imaginable" - because all you can do is imagine a worldwide flood. You're right that a real flood can not necessarily be compared with an imaginary flood. An imaginary flood can do all sorts of things that a real flood can't do, just like an imaginary superhero can do all kinds of things tha a real person can't do.

That would be the No True Teetotaler fallacy.

Since the Bible is copied by man, compiled by man, translated by man, etc. by man, it is actually warning you not to trust the Bible. It takes a wise book indeed to warn you against itself.

Bouncing plates, like Velikovsky's bouncing planets?(For some reason I have Duelling Banjos playing in my head.)