Oh hey, fun fact; remember how we were always searching for those "fountains of the deep" that God broke up to produce Noah's flood? Science found them. There's a fiber like layer of stone beneath the mantle, they say that three times the world's oceans of water is locked in between the mantle and the core. Don't ask me where that water was before the flood; but we were always asking... where did the water go? Now we will ask, how in the heck did it go from the surface down below the mantle? I just heard about this, so I hope I am rememberring correctly where this water is at.
You know, if equatorial regions - preflood - were very hot; much hotter swamps and jungle than we have today; chances are pretty good that mankind didn't go there. So it isn't hard to see how the reptiles grew to such huge lengths.
And if you are looking for Atlantis or Lemuria, you have to twist back the globe to the orientation of the earth on its poles pre-flood. So for anyone who is searching on today's orientation; that doesn't make any sense, today's orientation is not where they were. To make it even harder, there's no knowing what kind of twist the small moon strike produced. Maybe - instead of simply rotating the earth backward from the point of impact - maybe we need to twist it backward... maybe preflood North America was orientated Northwest to Southeast instead of North to South. One thing seems sure; there was enough north to south change to necessitate everyone mapping out their new night skies.
Some people think Antarctica was the old Atlantis. Others feel it was Bimini Road in the Caribbean. I'm in the camp that says Atlantis was a global civilization, where ever the island city was located. Same for Lemuria and Mu. Remember, those civilizations were built up over millions of years. And they kept time by tracking the precession of the Ages; which didn't change with the tilt of the earth, proving it is due to the sun's revolving it's galactic twin, nothing to do with the earth's orientation. One last note: preflood east and post flood east probably remained the same, the earth just changed the angle it spins at in relation to the sun, not the direction of the spin.
Other possibilities for preflood orientation:
Maybe that small moon strike turned the earth over until South became North and vice versa. Maybe it turned it over several times. It would seem utterly impossible to figure out what happened there, but we can figure out where places were before the strike by certain indicators for those areas. I'm going with the Sonora desert, the Sahara desert, the Arabian desert, the Persian desert, keep going east... as areas that were thoroughly strip mined so they were the nice climate inhabited regions. ditto for Antarctica. Siberia was tropical and western USA was crawling with giant lizards so those areas were closer to the equator. Canada and northern Europe were ice filled, so let's figure them at the poles. It seems the polar ice came down to just north of and into the northern edge of where the small moon struck. Try this; stare directly at Memphis Tennessee and twist the earth counter clockwise 23 degrees... that puts all those areas where they must have been. There's a circle of megaliths running about 23 degrees off the current equator that some folks feel represents the old equator... no way of knowing that for sure. But it makes sense when you study the magnetosphere.
I'm always wondering when I read the prophets... how much of this is really God speaking and how much of it is the prophet speaking? It is a mixture. The books of Moses do not read like Moses wrote them, ditto for Joshua, those books, along with Chronicles of the kings (including first and 2nd Samuel) were all written by the scribes; ditto for Esther and Ruth. So you really have to wonder, how much of Genesis was God's inspiration, and how much of it was the understanding of the scribes. The books penned by the scribes are considered inspired, but they are mostly historical documents; the word "God" isn't found once in the book of Esther. So when you read a myth that was millions upon millions of years old, recorded by a bunch of scribes, please don't exhaust my patience preaching that every word was "God breathed" and carry on about how it is God's word and there are some that go so far as to say God penned the books himself, not the scribes. Just the opposite is the case; these historical scrolls have very little to no inspiration, except where they record the words of prophets (which Moses was) or the words uttered by former prophets (like Jacob and Joseph). So when it comes to the first ten chapters of Genesis, what you have there is knowledge handed down from previous civilizations... human knowledge.
So God said this and God did that cuz he was thinking this or that... it is a story. It is a way of telling what happened. Human lifespans were shortened after the flood, so the scribes will tell you... God said, my spirit will not always strive with man, I am shortening their lifespan... were the scribes that wrote that, eyewitness to God's speaking? Not at all, people, c'mon quit being so naive, it was a way of telling what happened. Were any of Moses' scribes around at the creation of the earth and heard God say "Let there be light"? Did they know anyone who knew anyone who knew anyone who knew anyone a million more times, maybe ten million more times... No, it was a way of telling a story; a very damn old story, a story that everyone apparently knew in those times. That same story has been told a whole bunch of different ways.
So get this; as far as the scribes knew or could reckon, where did all that water come from for the flood? fountains of the deep were broken up? windows of heaven were opened? then God made all the water go away... some how. They saw God work with wind on the Red Sea, it must have been that same trick? Nobody told them that a small moon broke up into a million pieces and struck the opposite side of the earth... that the flood was more of a global tsunami than an increase in water volume. Opening the windows of heaven does not increase the global water supply; it just moves it around. There are no fountains of the deep; or empty cavities that might have been fountains of the deep, that could have been "broken up" and produce the flood. The flood happened; evidence for it is everywhere, it just didn't get produced by windows of heaven being opened or fountains of the deep being broken. Those are poetic ways of telling a story ... but it doesn't appear the scribes knew what actually happened to cause the flood. A global tsunami might have indeed filled a mountain pass until it over flowed the mountains, but it wasn't that the whole earth was filled to that level, it was how high the water rose as the tsunami came through; if the earth was pushed the same dirtection as the tsunami, the tsunami might have built up for 40 days and then released, we have no idea what the small moon strike did to the spin of the earth; the earth likely went into a wobble and took a long time to fix on its new axis.
I look for clues in the text. I try to piece together all the pieces of the puzzle and that includes guesswork. The record in Genesis appears to be at the apex of the tsunami; so it seems the worst of it struck the greatest population center (North Africa to India), perhaps only 8 souls were saved in that whole major center of the earth; and all the re-population of those areas came from one family; I doubt it to beat hell, then how did the giants resurface? But it was certainly a dramatic enough piece of history for Peter to emphasize in his epistle... who was Peter? A local fisherman. None of the New Testament authors, neither Jesus himself, would have had a clue that Noah's flood was actually a global tsunami from a small moon striking the other side of the earth.
Sodom and Gomorrah really were destroyed by brimstone and fire coming down from heaven; those areas are still impregnated with a white sulphur that will burn if you light a lump. What the heck caused it? Science doesn't know. I didn't even know there was such a thing as white sulphur. How crazy is that?
If you look at the overlap of the craters... first of all, think of what happens when a small moon breaks up into a million chunks of rock, the outer circumference of the moon will have sparse amount of rocks but the density increases until you move to dead center where the entire diameter of the moon would be incoming... so if there was well over half a million craters, figure the center had that many rocks all by itself, they just hit one on top of another. Now for the big question: how fast was this object travelling relative to the earth?
mass x speed = force
So speed is important. And we don't know what the speed was.