This is what I was expecting. Flake threw a fucking monkey wrench into the timing.
Aye, proof is not confirmation bias. Two different animals. And evidence is not proof. One is a subset of the other.
No, it would not have. The Flood was not a rain event; all of the fountains of the deep opened up, all of the volcanos of the world erupted; the bottom of the seas became the tops of mountains; the world was buried under a mile of water that took a year to recede back into the crust of the earth, and settle into the locations where the oceans are today. The one and only ice age is a result of that flood; they found tropical flora in a woolly mammoth's stomach; they ice sheet over the poles is essentially one layer, with minute layerings for each subsequent storm.
You'll never get to God's level thinking for yourself, because you are not God.