Evidence for a global flood?

Question

Is there ANY evidence for a global flood? All I find when I look are billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Randy G's web link is horribly misguided and close minded.
the authors of the site refuse to see evidence that is under their eyes b/c their religion has so brainwashed them.
there is NO evidence for any world wide flood. what happened was the flooding of a localized region more than likely the areas around the red sea. the people at that time did not know that there were other people around they world, they assumed that because their world was flooded, the entire world was flooded. info about this event was passed down generation after generation, in most cases by storytelling. thus the story became exaggerated, just like all myths do. other similar localized floods have happened at different times in different places and thus a lot of cultures developed a flood myth.

if the layers of fossils and rock were due to a flood, the fossils, for example, would be layered with the heaviest on the bottom and the lightest on the top. this is almost never true. also, there is no worldwide layer with marine/water deposits. we have seen worldwide layers of ash for example from volcanic eruptions but there is NO geological evidence for a world wide flood. it is a myth and a story

also, rainwater comes from evaporated ocean water. even if all of the icecaps melted (and they were not all melted in geological times) the ocean would not be large enough to cover all of the land. the amount of water on the earth stays relatively the same all the time. rain does not just magically appear. it is recycled from the water that already exists on the earth.

Answer 3

There is evidence of flooding throughout the Earth's history. Sea-level changes are evident, and when it rises it floods the lands. There is evidence of a localized flood in the Tigris-Euphrates river basin of Mesopotamia, and to the inhabitants of the region it was a "Global Flood". All you have to do is read the account of Gilgamesh, which was borrowed by the Jews and attributed to Noah, to learn of the devastation it caused. But there is no evidence of a global flood in Geology.

To my knowledge, no proponent of a Biblical Floor has ever attempted to explain where all the water that supposedly covered the Earth went to after forty days and nights. Did it go into the oceans? Did it go into the atmosphere? Did it go into cracks in the Earth? What happened to it? To me this is compelling evidence that there never was a worldwide flood.

Answer 4

That's not evidence for a global flood. The most common fossils are those laid down in aquatic sediments, simply because the bodies can be buried by silt quickly before they're torn up and scattered. Those fossils can be found at lots of different geological horizons (indicating different ages), and as far as I know there are no horizons showing drowned fossils at the same geological age all over the world. Somewhere was always dry.