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Originally posted by TrueCreation:
Post your questions on why you think the Flood could not have happend or could have happend and give reasons why.
The following are a cummulation of scientific reasons (not my own) supporting the 'biblical' hypothesis of the flood:
Evidences for the Flood (See 'Continents in Collision’: Lindsay, Dennis Gordon):
1) CULTURAL RECORDS: "Iraq, Sumerian, Aztecs of Central America, Hottentots of South Africa, Hawaiians, Chinese, 200 various flood accounts world-wide
agree on three things: (1) the existence of a vessel of safety; (2) destruction by water; and (3) the saving of human seed."
2) POPULATION GROWTH STATISTICS: The observable growth rate of human population on Planet Earth fits much more naturally in a Creation/Global Flood framework than an evolutionary concept of human history.
3) WORLDWIDE OCCURRENCE OF WATER-LAID SEDIMENTARY ROCK:
Approximately 75% of Earth’s crust is sedimentary rock, which is rock formed in and by water. The geological and fossil evidence reveals that the world was once inundated by physical forces with which modern man is not acquainted. A global Flood would have deposited huge amounts of sediment throughout the world.
4) MARINE FOSSILS ON CRESTS OF MOUNTAINS.
The highest mountain on Earth, Mt. Everest, along with the tops of every other mountain, contains rocks and fossils that were once under water. Marine fossils and salt clusters formed by sea water have been found atop Mt. Ararat. Such evidence harmonizes perfectly with the biblical account: a worldwide Flood which covered every mountain on the face of the Earth.
Fossilized marine life can be found on every mountaintop in the world
5) FORMATION OF FOSSILS.
Fossils are found all over the world; but by and large, these are not being formed today. Sudden death, sudden and instant burial and sudden pressureall at the same timeare required in order to form fossils. Otherwise, decay from oxygen and other elements block the process from occurring.
...A major flood would generally create a fossil order from the simple to the complex forms of life according to an animal’s habitat, mobility, and density. Hydrodynamic selectivity would then layer out the dense, less mobile marine beings (such as tiny creatures like the trilobites, crustaceans, mollusks, and echinoderms) in the cambrian rock (lowest layer of strata) more rapidly than less dense, more mobile ones.
Many fossil graveyards were jammed with every type of creature
they could be buried in a roughly predictable order by rising floodwaters
6) PILLOW LAVA
Pillow lava is molten rock which has been formed and cooled under water. It is marked by peculiar concentric circles. This type of lava is found on Mt. Ararat right up to the line of the ice-cap at 13,000 feet. Mt. Ararat, at one time, was under water.
7) OCEAN SALT CONTENT.
Foraminifera are tiny one-celled creatures which have the ability to record the temperature and salinity of the water in which they live. When they die, their shells maintain the record. Today, modern technology can decipher this record and has discovered that a dramatic decrease in the salinity of the sea once occurred. Only a flood on the scale of Noah’s could have accounted for such a change.
8) SUDDEN EXTINCTION OF DINOSAURS AND OTHER ANIMAL SPECIES
Many evolutionary scientists believe that a large cometary body, 7—15 miles in diameter, struck the Earth 65 million years ago. They believe this led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. This theory harmonizes well with some of the catastrophic circumstances associated with the Flood; however, evolutionists’ timing of the event is significantly astray.
9) ABSENCE OF METEORITES IN THE GEOLOGIC COLUMN
Thousands of asteroids and chunks of meteoric matter circle the sun, and many have plunged to the surface of the moon and the Earth. If the Earth is billions of years old, as evolutionists claim, where are the thousands of impacts one would expect to find in the geological layers of the Earth?
--No meteorites have ever been found in the geologic column, except in the top layer of strata.
10) COAL BEDS AND OIL DEPOSITS
the living things buried beneath the rapidly deposited sediments of the Flood some 4,500 years ago, and subjected to heat caused by the pressure and friction of the vast amount of sediment, could easily have produced today’s oil deposits around the world.
11) REDWOODS
The giant redwoods of California are a testimony to the universal Flood. These trees never die of old age. Why, then, are the oldest living specimens only about 3,500 years old?
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