What is this if not possible evidence of the flood of Noahs Ark?

Question

Seriously, someone asked if we knew that there was NO evidence of a worldwide flood. I sent this and they seemed to feel it was not evidence. What is it then and if you know a link that gives possible evidence please post it.
http://www.ac18.org/research/Origins/Evidence%20for%20Biblical%20account%20of%20the%20flood.htm

Answer 1

I know you asked for the "Ark" but thought this would interest you.


THE WORLD-WIDE FLOOD
Historical Evidence


Similar stories of a world-wide flood have been among peoples all over the world: Romans, Babylonians, Gypsies, Mongols, Africans, Australian Aborigines, Hindus, Polynesians, and American Indians. Dr. Richard Andree found and recorded eighty-eight flood histories.1 These must have had their common origin in a historical event, the world-wide flood.


Inland Seas


When Marco Polo went through Central Asia he noted lakes which are now dried up. Fossil seas are evidence that sea water covered the earth. In different parts of the world, basins show that they were once filled with salt water. Examples are: Han Hai (Interior Sea) in China, the inland basin in India, and the basin in the high tableland of Tibet.2 Each year the Caspian Sea shrinks; the fact that it is becoming less salty shows that its source was sea water. In the United States the Great Basin was once filled with salt water, Lake Bonneville. Great Salt Lake is the small remains. Old shore lines are apparent, showing the great size of Lake Bonneville. Inland salt seas show that the world was once covered over with sea water.


Polystrata Tree Trunks


Tree trunks have been found in different parts of the world that were covered with layer upon layer of water laid sediments that became rock.3 If it had taken millions of years for the layers (strata) to be deposited, the upper parts of the trees would have rotted away before the upper strata were deposited. This clearly shows that the strata were laid down in rapid succession.


Sedimentary Rocks


Water laid materials formed rock layers which cover much of the earth's surface. These parallel strata do not have evidence of erosion between them. They must have been laid down rapidly without time for erosion in between. Vast areas were covered. Nothing like this is happening today. Even the largest rivers cover only small areas in their floods and deltas. Where did all the water laid materials come from that became sedimentary rock? Sedimentary rocks are not now being laid down on the bottoms of oceans. There was a world-wide flood that tore the surface of the world covering vast areas of the world with stratum upon stratum in rapid succession without time for erosion in between.4 Tides swept the earth. Volcanic eruptions sent forth great waves of water, tsunamis, and spewed forth lava, ash and dust upon the earth. The great fountains of the great deep burst forth.5 The waters above the earth came down.6


Fossils


Forests were smashed and compressed by waves and layers of water laid deposits, forming coal. Coal is found all over the world on every continent even in Antarctica near the South Pole and on Spitsbergen (Svalbard) near the North Pole. Various kinds of sea life are often found on top of and between layers of coal. Corals and deep sea crinoids often alternate with coal layers. This shows that the waves were from the ocean that smashed the trees and vegetation and then deposited them over vast areas in layer upon layer. Vast areas of the earth are covered with water laid vegetation that became coal under high pressures from the materials above.7


Vast amounts of animals and fish were buried by water laid material before they had time to rot. Fossil fish show by the prints of their bodies in the rocks that they were fleeing for their lives when they were suddenly covered over with mud that became rock. Soft plants and worms were covered so rapidly that you can see the fossil prints in the rocks. Yes, the fossils tell us that there was a great flood that swept the earth.


Fossil whales have been uncovered in Michigan. Fossil sharks have been found in the rocks of Ohio. Fossil fish beds are located near Kemmerer, Wyoming at about 7,000 feet above sea level. These creatures were entrapped by raging waves of water and materials that became rock.8


Animal bones have been found in great numbers in hilltop strata and cracks (fissures). Agate Springs, Nebraska is one example, where it is estimated that 9,000 animals were buried in one stratum.9
A very remarkable classical example of such an isolated hill is found in Burgundy, France, in the valley of the Soane. The hill is about 1,030 feet above the surrounding plain with steep flanks on all sides. A fissure near the top of the hill is crowded with animal skeletons. No skeleton is entire, the bones are fractured, are thrown together in disorderly fashion, and are unweathered and ungnawed.10


Fossils show that the strata were laid down rapidly by waves of water with mud that became rock.


Charles Darwin wrote in his Journal of the Voyage of the Beagle under the date of January 9, 1834:
It is impossible to reflect on the changed state of the American continent without the deepest astonishment. Formerly it must have swarmed with great monsters: now we find mere pygmies, compared with the antecedent, allied races. . . . What then has exterminated so many species and whole genera? The mind at first is irresistibly hurried into the belief of some great catastrophe; but thus to destroy animals, both large and small, in Southern Patagonia, in Brazil on the Cordillera of Peru, in North America up to Bering's Straits, we must shake the entire framework of the globe.


The bones and skeletons of dinosaurs are found in many parts of the world, deposited in water laid strata. Some dinosaurs were swept into piles by the water and mud that became rock. In a park near Vernal, Utah you can see the dinosaur skeletons in water laid rock. Dinosaur bones are even found in water laid rock on the North Slope of Alaska, above the Arctic Circle. The climate of Alaska was warm before the flood, when there were waters above the expanse. Dinosaur fossils have been found in Antarctica. Millions of dinosaurs perished in the world-wide flood. Dr. Austin, geologist, wrote:
The Morrison Formation of the Rocky Mountain region also is tremendously extensive, occurring from New Mexico to Canada and from Kansas to Utah. It is world-famous for its dinosaur fossils. Morrison formation dinosaur skeletons are often articulated, requiring that muscles and ligaments of the large animals were present at the time they were rapidly buried. Sedimentary formations indicating catastrophic flood processes are not confined to North America but occur on other continents as well.11


Geologist Clifford L. Burdick reported the discovery of two human skeletons, Homo sapiens, imbedded in Cretaceous rock near Moab, Utah.12 (Dinosaur fossils are found in Cretaceous rock.) Humans perished in the flood just as dinosaurs and other creatures did. Also, notice that the evolutionary time table is not scientific.


Before the flood, different kinds of animals lived in different locations and elevations. These different life zones caused them to be buried by the great waves of the flood in different locations and at different levels as the water level rose and as the strata were built up.13


Mountains


Today there is about 48 times as much water in the oceans as there is land above sea level. Much of the world's mountains rose after the flood, as shown by their twisted and bent sedimentary strata. Strata were bent without fracturing which shows that they were still soft when uplifted.14
Psalm 104:6-8: . . . The waters were standing above the mountains.
At Thy rebuke they fled;
At the sound of Thy thunder they hurried away.
The mountains rose; the valleys sank down
To the place which Thou didst establish for them.


Was the Ice Age Caused by the Genesis Flood?


Meteorologist Michael J. Oard concluded that the oceans were warm at the end of the flood. Volcanic ash and dust in the atmosphere reduced the heat from the sun. Moisture from the warm oceans produced snow on the cold northern lands. Possibly the Ice Age was caused by the Genesis Flood.15


The Historical Record of the Bible


The history of the world-wide flood is recorded in Genesis chapters 6,7, and 8. The Septuagint Text indicates that the flood took place about 3400 B.C.16 The sinfulness of mankind caused God to send the flood. Genesis 7:19-24 clearly states that the whole world and mountains that then existed were covered over by waters of the flood. All people outside of the ark perished because of their sins and rejection of God. The world-wide flood tells us about God, about His judgment on sin.


Jesus Messiah spoke about the flood and His return on the day of judgment:
Matthew 24:37-39: "But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. (NKJB)


Jesus put His seal of approval on the historicity of the flood. If you believe in Jesus then you will believe that there was a world-wide flood in the days of Noah. If the flood had only been local, there would have been no need for building the ark; Noah and his family could have left the local area. If the flood had only been local, the ark would have been flushed down to the Persian Gulf rather than landing on the mountains of Ararat.


The Apostle Peter spoke about the scoffers of our time:
2 Peter 3:5-7: For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which now exist are kept in store by the same word, reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. (NKJB)


Yes, the world-wide flood in the days of Noah show us that the day of judgment is coming for us also. Jesus the Messiah will return. You and I will stand before the judgment seat of Messiah. 2 Corinthians 5:10. This world will be burned up. Now is the time to repent, to turn to Messiah.
2 Peter 3:9-10: The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. (NKJB)


You can be saved from fire and judgment. Noah and his family were saved from the judgment and destruction that came upon the world in their time.
1 Peter 3:20-22: . . .when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water. And corresponding to that, baptism now saves you - not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but the appeal to God for a good conscience - through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven.


Germaine Lockwood

Answer 2

< ... Because so many sincere people have been duped by fundamentalist preachers into believing that everything written in the Bible has to be true, it is still necessary at times to review the absurdities in the flood story.

One of these absurdities concerns the amount of water that would have been required to produce a flood like the one described in Genesis. The Bible claims that "the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered" (Gen. 7:19). The language is explicit enough to discount the theory that the flood was localized, because a limited flood could not have covered ALL the high mountains under the WHOLE heaven. After the waters had receded, the ark came to rest on "the mountains of Ararat" (8:4). Since water seeks its own level, it wouldn't have been possible for a localized mound of water to rise to that height without dropping to a uniform level.

If Bible fundamentalists are honest, then, they will have to admit that the Genesis writer intended his story to be understood as an account of a flood that had covered the entire earth. In other words, he expected us to believe that within the space of forty days enough water rained down or rose from "the fountains of the deep" to cover the highest mountain on earth to a depth of 15 cubits (7:20). In prescientific times when people knew very little about geography and meteorology, a claim like this could find general acceptance, but in modern times only the very credulous can believe it.

To understand this, we have only to analyze the story in terms of the number of inches of rain per minute that would have had to fall on the entire surface of the earth to produce the results described in Genesis 7-8. We now know, for example, that Mount Everest is the highest mountain "under the whole heaven." It reaches an altitude of 29,028 feet, which would be a height of 348,336 inches. For enough rain to fall in a period of 40 days to reach the peak of this mountain, the cloud formations would have to drop 8,708 inches of rain per day uniformly over all the earth. This would amount to 363 inches per hour or six inches per minute. Can any reasonable person believe that it once rained continuously for 40 days and nights at an average rate of six inches per minute? A rainfall of six inches in one day is a veritable downpour. What would six inches per minute sustained for 57,600 continuous minutes be like?

How, in fact, would such a sustained rainfall even be possible? The sun causes water to evaporate and collect in clouds, and when clouds can no longer retain the water vapor that they accumulate in the process, rain occurs. Then when the clouds have released their moisture, the rain stops. So how could a worldwide cloudcover release rain for a period of 40 continuous days without having its supply of water replenished by the process of evaporation? To argue that it could have happened is to argue that a world-wide cloudcover once retained and released (without replenishment) several miles of water.

To the prescientific Hebrew mind, such a phenomenon would have made perfectly good sense because of the cosmogony that was generally believed at the time. A body of water was thought to exist in the heavens that God had divided from the waters upon the earth with a "firmament" that he made the second day of creation (Gen. 1:6-8). To make it rain, God had only to open windows or gates in the firmament to release some of the water that was above the earth (Mal. 3:10; 2 Chron. 6:26). This cosmogonic misconception was alluded to in the flood story when it spoke of God's opening and shutting "the windows of heaven" (7:11; 8:2). To modern minds, however, the notion of such a prodigious outpouring of rain is absurd, because we understand the nature of the water cycle that takes water from the surface of the earth into the clouds and redistributes it as rain. >

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Answer 3

Some ppl claim that the Arc is near Mount Ararat.

Answer 4

Every culture has written about the flood.

And, in our lifetime, astronaut James Irwin led an expedition to Mt. Ararat where he documented its existence.

http://www.noahsarksearch.com/

Answer 5

Some refuse to accept the truth and admit when they're wrong.