Can a dove or crow fly around the earth covering the entire area in a week or just the area around the moving (important part) ark?It rained for 40 days and 40 nights then stopped.
So nothing would have exposed the peaks and then covered them up again.
Scripture says the water covered the mountain peaks - so there were mountains ....
Only after a year on the ark did the dove come back with proof that life had returned to the earth.
( don't ask how an olive tree was able to grow and get new leaves after being underwater for 12 months... )
Mountains could have changed size because of plate inertia..... and it does not say the peaks were permanently covered it just states covered which means it could have been temporary..... also Noah's point of view was the ark he could not see everywhere especially halfway around the earth nevermind the other side.
Not all places would receive the same flooding as the water calmed down and started receding, the tree could easily grow on a mountainside. It does not say how large the tree was only that it was large enough to grow a minimum of one leaf.
