Good try, no cigar.
On Sat Jun 10 15:59 , "D. F. Siemens, Jr." sent:
>>>DS Does this mean that the Mediterranean dried out a year after it
filled, as Genesis 8:13f declares, or are you accommodating?
Dave<<<
GRM: Oh, David, you of little faith, to think I hadn't already thought of that. Genesis 6:13: And God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth."
Now, the word earth is 'eretz', meaning 'land' If God did to the land what he did to the people (wipe them out, destroy them), then the land must also have been destroyed. God didn't kill the people and then raise them. Neither does the Bible indicate that he flooded that land and then restored it (a floating ark will go somewhere else--to a different place from where it started). In the traditional interpretation, the land was not really destroyed, but only got wet for a while. With the Mediterranean Flood, the land was actually destroyed, just as the Bible says.
So, to answer your question, I am NOT accommodating. Take that in either definition of the term.