I have always respected your opinion and your intelligence Deut. I have never really liked the way you put things and seem to verbally abuse the beliefs of others in the name of your pursuit of truth. I have usually ignored the way you put things and tried to look beyond it to see what your point is. I have been very frustrated lately though at your "in your face" approach with me and others. So, welcome to the ignore list, and have a great stay.
I hope I'm never put on the ignore list. I do like to debate with you.
But go easy on Deut. Often, Deut and I have disagreed, often in a semi-hostile manner, with each other. Deut and I are the way we are. We cannot change our beliefs instantly. I don't know what other instances you speak of (meaning I haven't seen them, at least yet), but here, Deut was merely stating his opinion.
I didn't know bacteria and viruses could not live in water.
Certainly not all types can. Most need incubation within an animal or plant to survive, oftimes a specific type of animal or plant, and some of the time, a specific species.
I still don't understand how the ecosystem of the world survived, what with there being no plants anymore. Even the underwater plants would have died, because the light would never have reached the bottom of ocean, where the plants grew (they usually grow near coastlines, where the bottom isn't that deep). Most fish would have died (all freshwater fish). Sea turtles would die, crabs would die, pretty much everything would die.
The only plantlife left on Earth would have been the phyto-plankton present in the top of the ocean.
Also, examine the genetic diversity of all species. It varies. Inbreeding between two animals and their offspring, over and over again, would merely destroy the gene pool and exterminate the genetic line of that species. Cheetahs today are known to have a very small gene pool, because of a plague that wiped out most cheetahs in the past. The ones that survived were a limited bunch, the only ones with the genes for resistance or immunity to the plague. Under such constrained population numbers, inbreeding would have occurred, but not nearly so much as in the Ark scenario. It is largely inconcievable, when using modern logic, to believe that animals could have survived in such a post-flood world.
Besides this, the person who claimed there is geological evidence of a world-wide flood is incorrect. There were two times in Earth's history where the Earth was completely covered in ice (one just before the existence of oxygen breathers, and one just after). As the glaciars moved to meet on the equator, they brought along sediment and rocks from far away places.