Questions regarding the amount of water required for a great flood as described in Genesis 7

Hi I’m a fictional writer now by trade but I’m composing a short educational work that talks about Creation Science and how it can possibly jive in many areas with other scientific discoveries or theories apart from Christian creation science. I’m not debating the issues against each other, but looking to expose how they can and do appear to be complimentary of each other when they are examined differently than the opponents of any group commonly seem to do. I’m posting this in two different

I'm not sure if you are asking how much rain would need to fall to cover the mountains, or how much water could conceivably fall as rain. You could start with the highest recorded rainfall figures here: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/extreme-weather-records/index.html Greatest rainfall in 24 hours = 1.825 m. So in 40 days and nights that would be 73 metres (about 240 feet?) Greatest rainfall in 1 minute = 31.2 mm. In 40 days and nights that would be 1797 metres (just under

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