What real Geological evidence is there to support the world wide Flood myth of Noah?

Question

Surly if there was such a flood there would be a world wide layer of sediments that contained all the fossils from that period.

Answer 1

What about what has been found on mount ararat? This is actually A PICTURE to go by. What do you think it is?

http://www.remnantofgod.org/creation.htm

Answer 2

There is no such geological evidence which I am aware of. Since there are a number of ancient flood myths, it has been suggested by anthropologists that these myths are the result of the last Ice Age when ocean levels rose considerably around the world. Also, it should be noted that human settlement tend to congregate near bodies of water, making them susceptible to floods, which are the most deadly (not most damaging) form of natural disaster.

Answer 3

There is none. That's why no serious scientist believes that it actually happened.

I've seen people site "aquatic fossils on the tops of mountains" as evidence of a global flood, but, as any introductory geology class will teach, fossils found on the tops of mountains were not formed on the tops of mountains. Aquatic life forms were fossilized on the sea floor, the sediment from which later lithified (turned into rock) and was pushed up to form mountains, usually due to the movement (e.g. collision) of plates.

Most of the other arguments I've seen for evidence of a flood can be easily refuted by a glance into an introductory geology textbook. I'll be interested to see what other answers you have for this question.

Answer 4

Take into account that people living in the Middle East at the time the Bible was written had no idea that Australia or the Americas existed. I don't think it's a huge stretch of the imagination that the coast got hit with a tsunami that caused a flood that lasted for a long time. They probably saw the flood in their homeland for as far as they could see and wrote that the world had flooded. The characterization of Noah is probably just to color the story. Give it some personality. Like Odysseus to The Odyssey. Simple as that.

Answer 5

Try to get hold of a book by Steven Jay Gould, called "The Flamingo's Smile". It was originally published in the USA by W W Norton in 1985. Gould was a professor at Harvard.

In this book, there is an essay called "The freezing of Noah, concerning the Reverend William Buckland, who was actually the first person to discover glaciation, ironically whilst trying to prove that Noah's flood was real.

Answer 6

I being a true christian and lover of God believe in his word the Bible and if it said Noah built and survived in an ark I need no other evidence as to its true being. Far too many so called Christan's and humans today want to disprove the bible......to me that is because of fear of what the bible is telling us and that is those who are not true believers and don't proclaim God as the one and only true almighty God are facing everlasting death like Satan and his demons are going to have soon.

Answer 7

The Ice Ages. A big chunk broke of Ellis Island, so I would say that the flood has almost fully receeded.

Answer 8

Well, originally, the world was covered in water, but it receded in time. That's why we have ground water.

The story of the great flood sounds so much like the story "The flood of Gilgamesh". I think it was plagiarism

Answer 9

80 million year old fossil fish on mountain tops , prove that there was a flood 7,000 year ago. and the remains of mastodon skeleton prove there where giants with one eye too.

Answer 10

What evidence is there that it is a myth? It only lasted 40 days and nights, so the sedimentary layer theory doesn't hold water. Heh heh...