[kahljorn]

"I also dispute your contention that few people believe in a 6000 year old earth that was once covered by floodwater"

Six thousand is certainly unrealistic, I'm pretty sure that some of the history of mankind(not necessarily recorded, but by artifacts and paintings and crap like that) dates around then. Plus wasn't the egyptian crap around that time?
However, the idea of the earth being completely submerged in water near the begining isnt at all intolerable, imagine gravity playing a slight effect on the surfaces of water with dirt sand and other matter that has collected at the top of the water. Dead corpses and such as well. Crap that gets scraped off the bottom of the sea and gradually builds up.

God slowly creating the heavens and earth isnt so impossible either, after the big bang shit didnt come together. It took a while for the heavens and earth to become heavens and earth, they didnt just miraculously pop out of the spigam splosion as the universe all structured(antropy I believe it's called).
To sum it up into the form of a great man's poetic(almost prose) philisophical fantastic words:

"transcedent echoes, reflecting each and own.
the paradox of so called war
wretched and worn, the wicked battles before
Frustration marks dawns daily stride
the perilous times above; the earth and the moon true celestial foes
begining of an unspoken wrath, borne of century ravaged empties
marked begining, ends, dust and eclipse
times began to ache, when the dust began to speak and gather
Erupted in this streaming vacuo of gold and silver
Interaction became the remedies to disease
Empty spaces were more deliberate then
seemed to tell the tale of betrayal
we named it change, discarded for a mirror and a vase
the energy, lustful and unified; tasteful agony
as the weak gravitated in the wake of ancients
now this light and dark we came to know
the gods afore-everything else was to remain in cruel shadow
negated sanctity for spites upon the soul
they were caged in a sea of worry
a new entity had appeared among the stars
accumulation became the insidious plot of the unified
assimilation from the mist, into the sea of wholes
the darkened battlefields lie above, where torn and ravaged scars remain
earth is the victor, in this cruel sport of souls"