If the flood did not cover the whole earth like the Bible said, then why is there remains of marine life on top of every mountain that has been explored? Do marine animals fall up when they die?
2006-10-25 14:12:45 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, puff puff.
2006-10-25 14:19:32 · update #1
Really, marine life at the top of Everest
I don't think so.
But then again, mountains are caused by buckling in the earths' crust, as such they have to go through sedimentary layers, and so could quite easily pick up marine fossils.
Theres probably carpet on your floor, that doesn't prove it grew there.
2006-10-25 14:17:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
This is an easy one John.
First it is a fact that marine life is NOT on top of every mountain. Volcanoes for example due to the process by which they are built up.
If you do research into a field of science called Geology you will find out about the fact that the crust of the Earth is in constant, albeit slow, motion. This motion causes mountains to rise and fall so that something, like the Tibetan plateau, which is a mountain range today once was the bottom of an ocean. In science this is explained by a theory called Plate Tectonics.
To back up the great ages needed to add up this constant motion is the fact that radioactive materials decay at a known rate. This lead us to theories in Physics that show how old particular rocks are (with convergent evidence from current rates of sedimentation from Geology).
Also there were floods in the Middle East thousands of years ago. Major ones in the Fertile Crescent were caused by denudation of the land due to deforestation as agrarian cultures started to turn nomadic again and tended herds of herbivores to clean vegetation leading to massive mud slides during rain storms (again a fact known from the layers of sediment found in that area). As well there was the flooding of the once fresh water Black Sea when ocean levels rose after the last Ice Age displacing populations who lost their known world under the water.
2006-10-25 21:25:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A great flood perhaps did happen; many cultures (not just Hebrews) have described a global flood. The only thing is, it didn't wipe out the entire earth save Noah, as there are relics of OTHER CIVILIZATIONS talking about the flood. Did a great flood happen? Yes. Was it catastrophic to the point of destroying ALL? No. If the ice caps were to suddenly melt, there would definitely be a great flood globally; perhaps that is what happened in history so long ago.
2006-10-25 21:19:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess if you've read the answers to your question, you know by now how uninformed (ignorant) it is. The earth has changed over hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of years of geologic activity, not 6 or 10 thousand years as you may have been told. Fish don't "fall up" but mountains do rise up. And fall, too.
The presence of fish fossles on mountaintops and in deserts does not prove a biblical flood, only the prejudices and ignorance of those who use this argument in an attempt to prove it.
2006-10-25 21:27:01 · answer #4 · answered by Don P 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You serious?
Marine life on the top of mountains is what gave clues to the actual age of the earth back in the 18th and 19th centures, and led to the theory of plate tectonics. What now are mountains were once sea floors millions of years ago. The slow movement of plates diving under each other back to the magma raises mountains on the other plate.
2006-10-25 21:23:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a scientist, so I'm not credible enough to answer your question in a scientific manner.
But I do, however, have a question for you. I understand that creationists believe that the Flood was the cause of all geologic formations we see today. This would also mean that the Flood was responsible for the settlement of fossils. This would cause me to expect complete randomness in the order and arrangement of the fossil layer. However, the "geologic timescale" we see has a perfectly neat and ordered timescale, with life forms progressing from simple to advanced. Can the Flood explain that?
2006-10-25 21:19:35 · answer #6 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe there was no mountain there many years ago but as the earth shifted and collided with other land masses the ground rose forming mountains that have many different species found inside, originally in water becoming a mountain through time...any answer can really be correct and wrong since we werent really there to witness the encounter, aliens could have planted them there for all we know
2006-10-25 21:19:11 · answer #7 · answered by dakkrin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first off their are tectonic plates that push the ground up.
Hawaii was not always their
also yes hundreds of millions of years ago the entire earth might have been coverd by water but not 5,000 years ago.
my question is how come if all the animals that were on Noah's ark left from Turkey who did the Kangaroo get to Australia and only Australia why is their no evidence of a Kangaroo anywhere else on earth.
the same goes for thousands of animals.
2006-10-25 21:17:18 · answer #8 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The earth moves, mountains are formed and fall over time. The earth as we see it today is not what it has always looked like.
2006-10-25 21:24:44 · answer #9 · answered by Kithy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You do know that mountains rise up and have not always been mountains, right? Perhaps you have heard of plate tectonics? Perhaps you passed sixth grade?
By the way, what type of marine life is on the top of Mount Everest.
2006-10-25 21:15:13 · answer #10 · answered by Dane 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋