pete ...Genesis can't tell you HOW there can be a "violent flood from above and breaking out of the earth" is possible. That just doesn't happen-- there IS only so much water...and if your answer is "God can do anything he wants", then your reasoning is circular. You are assuming impossible things to validate your belief that God can do them. If you reason this way, you always 'win', because you build in your own proofs, but you prove nothing about EITHER God or floods.