"So the LORD said, 'I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land,

For honest exegesis, the Hebrew term translated 'sons of God' must be understood in its own Hebrew literary context. This therefore can only mean 'supernatural beings' (i.e. unborn beings), and not 'believers' as some expositors have foolishly tried to impose on the text to avoid awkward questions of 'how' this could happen, but just as this same term is also used In Job 1:6 & 38:7 for angels.

The term translated 'giants' (nephilim) has no Hebrew base no matter what allusions commentators try to draw from similar Hebrew words. It does not mean 'fallen ones'. It is derived from an Aramaic noun "naphil(a)" which simply means 'giant' and so the pre-Christian Jewish Septuagint correctly translated 'nephilim' as 'gigantes' = giants]

The two sources – (1) great rain, and (2) "all the fountains of the great deep burst forth" (תהום רבה) describes nothing less than a tidal surge involving all oceans, an event which implies a global tectonic plate disturbance;

The preservation of birds on the Ark also points to a global event, for otherwise birds would simply have flown to higher areas;

The sudden permanent reduction in human longevity also points to a world-wide environmental change.

'relief / comfort'

'friend of God'

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1. 

All birds are included among the fauna to be preserved.

2. 

It took 330 days for the water to drain and the earth to dry sufficiently to disembark.

it completely ignores the context, the after-effect of the Flood (the earth's changed productivity), illustrated by the rainbow which had never been seen before; and,

it is contrary to the character of God, particularly as demonstrated by Jesus, that the principle is always human benefit and not God's compromise from some imagined ideal (e.g. Christ's Sabbath observance).

     "Dinosaur fossils were once thought to be millions of years old. This age was based upon the geologic column. The geologic column dates fossils by the rocks in which they are found, and dates rocks by the fossils they contain. Critics insist this is circular reasoning. "The intelligent layman has long suspected circular reasoning in the use of rocks to date fossils and fossils to date rocks" (J.E. O'Rourke, "American Journal of Science," 1976, 276:51). Furthermore, the geologic column assumes uniformity, which has come to be disproved by such geologic features as poly-strata fossils, misplaced fossils, missing layers, and misplaced layers (such as layers in reverse order, or "ancient" layers found several layers above "modern" layers). Most recently, advocates of an "Old Earth" turn to Radiometric Dating to prove dinosaurs to be ancient. Though they cannot date the dinosaur remains themselves, they can date rocks buried near the dinosaur remains. This is not accepted by many authorities as valid, as Radiometric Dating is based upon controversial assumptions held to be erroneous by many scholars, as indicated by empirical research. Dinosaurs are assumed to be millions of years old. Many now propose they died off in recent times and are responsible for the myriad of dragon myths. This has come to be a popular theory with such discoveries as the Ice Stones, the Glenn Rose tracks, etc. In addition, human remains have been found buried with dinosaur remains on more than one occasion. It may be that man hunted dinosaurs to extinction." (emphasis mine).

"Chronology is a dangerous subject for study, because it can become an obsession, then a disease. One must learn to distance oneself from emotional self-identification with any given datings, whatever they might be."

– Prof. Kenneth A. Kitchen, Times Literary Supplement (21 June 1991).

"I wish radiocarbon was not so messy, either in its statistical uncertainty, or in the intricacies of calibration... More and more we have dendro (tree-ring) dates, with the excitement of precision to nearly a single calendar year..."

– Christopher Chippindale, editorial, Antiquity (June 1993).