Did the Flood really happen?

Gulf of Mexico is not the same as the oceans, it shows many signs of having been formed after all the strata were laid down, and that would include the strata of the Cretaceous with its iridium layer. I see you asked some of these questions I've just answered. Yes it was part of the continent and not sea floor.

I know the geological column is only partial in any given location, that is a mistake I do not make, it's irrelevant to anything I've said.There are no earlier tectonic disturbances, at the least it's a matter of interpretation but the cross section actually shows only one. The other disturbances are the result of that one tectonic movement.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

Leonardo got it wrong. Even a genius can get things wrong, his intellect was fallen like everybody else's. Nothing was "transported up a mountain." The clearly tectonically raised mountains were formed after all the strata with their fossils were in place. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

If he'd known the mountain was originally where seashells would normally be found then I'd agree with him.

WHAT?Why should the Flood produce perfection? Sometimes you all say it could produce only a jumble, and then when I agree it wouldn't produce perfect geological columns everywhere now you complain that it's not perfect.The Flood didn't do any dancing and what do you mean by "several times around?" I picture the ocean rising up over the shore line of this ONE CONTINENT (that's all there was at the time) depositing a layer or part of a layer with each wave until the whole land area was under a great depth of water (I have no idea how deep since the layers would have added a lot to the land's depth), and there would be different sediments deposited on different parts of the continent, in some places the layer wouldn't be complete for lack of sufficient sediment and in others it would be far thicker than the rest of the same layer elsewhere. Why not? What makes you want perfection? And of course you would know because you've seen a worldwide Flood.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

No, the Gulf of Mexico is not sea floor. Produce a core from the Atlantic about halfway between the continent and the Atlantic ridge and see what you get.The strata in the Gulf are the same as the strata on the continents although they only go as deep as the Jurassic and everything beneath that is not shown. The second image below at least shows "hard rock" beneath the Jurassic salt.So I looked for the geological situation for the land area, Texas, and found the fourth image which shows that there is rock beneath the Jurassic there at least. Ordovician is labeled, and rock beneath that is shown though not labeled. So it would make sense that the same rock lies beneath the Jurassic in the Gulf though cores haven't gone that deep. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

Nonsense. Water covering the entire planet to a great depth would do things you can't imagine with your local floods. The whole surface of the land would be so defaced just from the forty days and nights of rain it would be unrecognizable and then the strata piled on top of it would further erase any recognizable remains.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

The usual semantic putdown that is utterly meaningless. Why don't you just try to figure out why it's not sea floor and what I mean by that?

THE Flood DID produce layers and DID sort thngs as ew see them. "Floods" are something else entirely.Where did I say all life would be destroyed before any layers were laid down? I can't have said that, I don't think it's true. By the time ALL the strata were laid down, yes.Is WHAT "what we see?" I don't know what you mean.

The Gulf was formed after the strata were deposited. It is not sea floor.

It's only right to put in a little effort to understand what people are saying when it isn't immediately clear.

There was no ocean in the Gulf of Mexico when the strata were laid down, all of them up through the Holocene. So it was not part of the oceans. It was formed later. The evidence is on the cross sections I posted. Strata would not be laid down IN the oceans but they were laid down in the Gulf so I concluce they were laid down before the Gulf formed.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

I'm trying to explain how the strata that had to have started out horizontal, stacked vertically from Cambrian to Holocene, got turned on their side so that they are now soread along the island from left to right and the other part of their strata lie beneath the island in the same arrangement. If you have a better explanation for how that happened, lay it out.

Jurassic through Holocene are not marine.

Doesn't matter to me, you know, since they were all the result of the Flood.