"Rabbis have said in Bereshith Rabbah; 'Whatever was in the dry land died,
but not the fish in the sea. And some authorities say that they too were
destined to be destroyed, but they fled to the Mediterranean.' Either way
the fish were saved.
Both of these opinions are plausible. For it is conceivable that the hot
waters of the flood mingled with the seas, heating only their upper waters,
while the fish descended to the depths of the ponds and lived there. Or,
in accordance with the opinion of some authorities, it is possible that the
fish in the waters of the countries near the Mediterranean fled there when
they felt the heat of the water, and were thus saved. And even if all those
outside the Mediterranean died, since the majority of fish are in the
Mediterranean where the water sof the flood did not come down--as it is
said, And the rain was upon the earth--the fish were thus saved." Ramban,
Commentary on the Torah, Tranls. By Charles B. Chavel, New York: Shilo
PUblishing House, 1971, p. 119
So Vernon, not only is a local flood pre-Darwinian, it is a Jewish concept
as well. Ramban limited the flood to the land, not to the sea and thus the
flood covered only 30 % of the globe as we know today!
I will be offline for a couple of days. The movers are in this room
packing my books and impatiently waiting for me to get off the computer.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
http://www.flash.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm
lots of other creation/evolution data