OK if the great flood was part of the great extinction?

Question

how can you explain the iridium level?

the fact that no large fossils are found above it for a great period of time, meaning it stratification time.

if you dont know iridium is only found in meteors , comets and other space objects, but yet its only found in small amounts in the layer where the K-T exstinction happened .

by the way iridium level covers the whole globe

i dont believe in the entire earth noah ark flood i was just asking a question to see what excuses i got

nothing according to alot of creationist they say dinos and humans lived side by side so the uridium level was the end of dinos thats where i was going

**iridium***

Answer 1

Which great extinction? There are at least 5.

To the first answerer: Floods are a relatively common occurrence. Large floods less so, but many ancient cultures were built near rivers to allow for a supply of fresh water. Floods are more than common enough to explain why most cultures have flood stories. Even without that, a flood of Biblical magnitude would boil Noah and his family alive inside the ark because of all the heat energy released by its fall.

Answer 2

Iridium is not ONLY found in meteors..it is found
in the earth's core. Quote:
"Iridium is a "platinum-group" metallic element that is very uncommon in the earth's crust. The platinum-group metals include platinum, iridium, palladium, rhodium, rhenium, and osmium. On the Periodic Table, these metals are also in the same columns as the "Group 8" elements, which include iron, nickel, and cobalt. Group 8 elements all have a natural chemical affinity for each other, and therefore they tend to collect together in nature. The greatest concentration of iron on Earth is at its core. This is also where the greatest concentration of Earth's iridium resides."
Source....
http://www.scn.org/~bh162/iridium.html
It is also brought to the surface by volcanic activity, of which there was a tremendous global amount during the flood.
In adition to Brother Michael's response I would add that the Hydro-plate Theory of the Flood as proposed by Dr. Walt Brown offers an explanation of the flood event as to how meteors and comets were formed from the enormous eruptions of water and rocks from earth at supersonic speeds during the flood event....some of which rained back down on the earth.
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/Asteroids2.html
The home page has a video of his theory. I highly recommend it and the rest of the online book.

Answer 3

"The current ‘glamour’ theory was proposed by the geologist Walter Alvarez in about 1980, that a meteor strike 66.4 million years ago caused dramatic climatic changes much like ‘nuclear winter’. This caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other species. His evidence was his discovery of an allegedly world-wide layer of clay with a high iridium content. His father Luis, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for work on subatomic particles, helped him publicize the theory. It is now accepted as ‘proven fact’ in many circles, and popularized in ‘documentaries’ such as Walking with Dinosaurs.

Problems with the ‘great impact’ theory

The secular book The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy exposes the way that the meteor explanation for the dinosaur extinction has become a new dogma that has way outstripped the evidence. Some of the reasons are:


*The extinction was not that sudden (using evolutionary/long age interpretations of the geological record). But the spread in the geological record makes sense if much of the sedimentary deposits were formed in Noah’s Flood.

*Light-sensitive species survived.

*Extinctions don’t correlate with crater dates.

*Modern volcanic eruptions don’t cause global extinction patterns, even if they cause a temporary temperature drop.

* The iridium enrichment, supposedly a key proof of meteor impact, is not nearly as clearly defined as claimed.

*Drill cores of the apparent ‘smoking gun’ crater on the Yucatán peninsula in south-east Mexico do not support the idea that it is an impact crater.

*It seems that some scientists didn’t speak out against the idea for fear of undermining the ‘nuclear winter’ idea, and being grouped with ‘nuclear warmongers’.

The overview article by meteorologist Mike Oard, ‘The extinction of the Dinosaurs’ explains many features of dinosaur fossils that are consistent with a flood, and dinosaur tracks consistent with fleeing from encroaching flood waters. Oard points out that iridium enrichment can be caused by massive volcanism, as many evolutionists agree. This would certainly have been a feature of the Flood year, associated with the breaking up of the ‘fountains of the great deep’ (Genesis 7:11). However, Oard agrees that the largest iridium anomalies were caused by meteorites striking during the Flood:

‘Iridium-rich clay falling from the atmosphere would accumulate only during temporary lulls in the Flood.’

This explains the fact that so-called spikes are really composed of multiple spikes or are spread over a wider layer of sediment. John Woodmorappe has pointed out:

‘there are now over 30 iridium “horizons” in the Phanerozoic record. These can be explained by a slowdown in sedimentation rate as iridium rained from the sky (whether from a terrestrial, or an extraterrestrial source). They pose no problem for the Flood at all.’

That is, the iridium layers mark lulls in the sedimentation rate during the Flood, the iridium ‘rain’ itself being more-or-less continuous during the Flood."

For the rest of this piece, go to this link:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/docs/dino_meteor.asp

Answer 4

I have never heard that the "great flood" or Noah's flood was part of the great extinction.
The only thing that became extinct due to the flood was most of mankind.
Legends or beliefs in the great flood are part of the lore of India and the Aztecs as well as the Jews. It really happened.

Answer 5

maybe God used a comet to cause the flood