There was a lot of flooding when the Ice Age ended, not covering the whole earth, but quite possibly covering where Noah lived.
The flooding that occurred during the end of the last Ice age was a lot more than just a local flood, it was global and involved massive streams of water flowing of the ice shelves, and a massive rise in sea level presumably flooding 90% of earths inhabitants that would have lived near the old ice age sea level.
I have been reading up a number of your replies, Lyndon, and I can tell you have no idea what you are talking about, and bringing up the Ice Ages, actually doesn't help your argument.
For one, the last glacial periods, the ice sheets of the Quaternary Glaciation or the Pleistocene Glaciation, covered large regions, but not everywhere.
For instance, in Europe, the Scandinavia, Baltic, most of the British Isles, Poland and part of Germany were covered, but the rest of Europe weren’t covered, except at some high altitude mountain ranges, like the Swiss Alps, only some parts of the Pyrenees and Balkan.
It was the same in North America. While Canada was covered, not all of the US. And the only ice sheets covering South America was at the high altitude of the Andes.
In the Middle East, from Iran in the east, and Egypt and Anatolian Turkey in the west, the only ice sheets to be found, were on the Caucasus.
Second. The Quaternary Glaciation started about 2 million years ago, but those regions that were prone to these ice sheets, weren’t always covered. The Ice Age went through series of glacial period and interglacial period.
Glacial periods can last tens or hundreds of thousands of years, while the warmer interglacial periods can last for centuries or thousands of years.
Scientists don’t believe the Quaternary Glaciation has ended yet. The geological epoch that they called Holocene is one of those interglacial periods, which to date has lasted 11,500 years.
Third. Like others have been telling you, the ice sheets don’t melt all at once, overnight. There have been no global Flood since the Holocene and the Neolithic industry began, 11,500 years ago.
If Adam and Noah were real historical people, they would be dated to approximately 4000 and 2350 BCE, basing on the translations of the Masoretic Text (Hebrew texts of the Old Testament eg. KJV, NASB, NRSV, NIV, etc).
(Sources: Genesis 5 & 7, adding the years from each generation plus Noah’s age (600) when the Flood occurred, is equal to 1656 years)
Since the last glacial period ended about 12,000 years ago, or 10,500 BCE, there is about 7500 years gap between this time, and that supposedly Noah’s Flood.
I find it very doubtful that the ice would melt all at once, 7000 years later.
Beside that, Genesis 7:11-12, only two sources of where the water come from: from the ground, eg “fountains” (7:11) and that it rain for 40 day’s and 40 nights. No where in the bible, did it ever mention waters coming from melting ice sheets or glaciers.
So basically, your claims that Noah's Flood was due to melting ice, is just pure speculation, and you projecting your belief.
