Is There Any Evidence For Noah’s Flood? [Quora Reply]

The original question on Quora was: “What actual truth is there for Noah’s flood?”
My original answer can be found here:
https://www.quora.com/What-actual-truth-is-there-for-Noah-s-flood/answer/Elijah-Sanders-6?prompt_topic_bio=1

Note, this is not intended to be a comprehensive study, and I know there are some more resources I could share, but it’s a sample of evidence that’s out there and some things to think about.

(Have made some spelling corrections)

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Don’t worry about the skeptics, they weren’t there, and as much as they’d like to deny it and say they are only based on “facts”, they have as much bias as anyone else (and there’s a lot of non-factual fiction in the strictly materialist’s worldview, including outright fraud and fairy tales passed off as “fact”, even after they’ve been debunked), and they’ll mock & poo-poo anything in the Bible that disagrees with their materialism, even if there’s evidence for it. AS TO THE QUESTION…

First of all, it’s recorded in the Bible (and often mischaracterized by people who have never actually read it [at least not carefully and to learn something]). God was there, Noah and his family were there. They knew what happened.
But if you want to call them all liars…

Secondly, there are flood legends around the world, pretty much on every continent, many with striking resemblances to the Biblical account & details. This really only makes sense in the light of what the Bible says… there was this great flood, and people remembered it and took the story with them around the word when they were scattered from Babel (which lines up closely with other studies).
But if you want to call local people’s legends past down to them from generation to generation… on different continents around the world… that so happen to line up with the Biblical account, all liars…

Thirdly, human genetics line up with the Biblical account, not only of Adam & Eve & special creation as people, but also what we’d expect if there was a drastic bottleneck in the population around the time of the Flood:

“Is the story of Adam and Eve unscientific myth or literal history (Scene 4 of 4)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj8WiPGoL9g

“Origins (Cornerstone Television Network) – Adam and Eve genetics”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYi9-XmUoAw

“Origins (Cornerstone Television Network) – Noah’s Flood Genetics”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJNtUEzRGxM

Fourth, strata & fossils provide lots of evidence of a global flood. What would we expect to see if there was a global flood? Billions of dead things, buried in rock layers, laid down by water, all around the world. And that’s exactly what we see. The flood is a simple explanation. Let me see if I can run through some of the evidence (I’ll just be speaking matter of factly, so you’ll need to look these things up if you’re not already familiar with them, and take advantage of the resources I link to). For example…

*We find fish fossils & beds of fossilized clams in the closed positions (indicating they were buried rapidly, as clam shells open when they die) at the tops of mountains!
Now, does this mean the waters were as high as all those mountains are today? No, but it does mean that the tops of those mountains were at some point underwater. The Bible seems to describe tectonic activity, where land masses would have risen & ocean basins would have sank.
“5. Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. 6. Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 7. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. 8. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. 9. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.” ~Psalm 104:5–9

*Fossils show signs of sudden & catastrophic burial (you really need rapid burial to get fossils, which is not depicted in the evolutionary idea of billions of years… I’m sorry, but if an animal dies on land or at sea, it’s not going to get slowly & neatly get buried & fossilize, that’s just not how it works). Aside from the fact that they are fossilized, which requires sudden and rapid burial, there are fossilized dinos fighting, multitudes in a death-throw position with their necks snapped back, fish in the middle of eating or giving birth, etc. And there are marine and terrestrial animal fossils in the same deposits. Fossilized footprints (including humans & giants, though you’ve probably never heard this), along with dino tracks, etc, rain drop impacts & ripples, & fossilized poop, all had to be buried fairly quickly after being made (they could have dried slightly before being covered), but they aren’t going to be around for thousands of years, let along millions before they deteriorate, disintegrate, & get eaten by bugs, etc. Polystrate fossils of plants & animals being fossilized through multiple layers of sediment. One example includes a whale found in I believe a diatamatious earth mine in the upright position I believe (tail to head upright) – now either way a whale is burried, even if it was on it’s side, does not lend itself to a natural death and slow burial through current processes… it would deteriate and be eaten long before that could happen. Other examples of polystrate fossils include trees in the upright position (some upside down – roots up, stripped I believe of most of the roots) going through multiple layers of sediment; One that I saw a picture of was both petrified AND coalified, running through layers of rock AND coal! And there’s a lot of them! Dead trees don’t stay standing for millions of years, and it couldn’t have been coalified without heat & pressure, which wouldn’t have happened unless it was burried all at once along with the sedimentary material on top of it. Interestingly, the erupton of Mt. Saint Helens not only provided several strata layers canyons cut through those layers, but Spirit Lake also show signs of how these other trees may have ended up as polystrate fossils, the trees stayed floating on the lake rubbing eachother and forming a thick layer of tree bark on the bottom of the lake, and the trees started sinking upright and embedding themselves in the sediment at the bottom of the lake.

*Smooth straight lines between layers of sediment & with coal layers. If these had been around for millions of years, why do we have smooth straight lines? Makes sense with a flood laying down multiple layers of sediment (which flowing water can do). And then we have the line of uncorformity. You go down through these smoothly straight-lined layers, hundreds of feet, mostly all the same, and sunddenly, for no apparent reason, there’s a layer that just doesn’t conform to the rest. Why should this be if not for a giant flood?

*Bent, buckled, & folded strata, including sharp 90 degree turns, all the layers together, including endire folded mountains! This makes a lot of sense if those layers were laid down at the same time, & bent while they were still pliable.

*Grand Canyon has a lot of interesting features from what I’ve heard: The beginning of the canyon’s top plateau is lower in altitude than the end of the canyon’s top plateau… water doesn’t flow uphill; It cuts through a snow-capped ridge… water doesn’t flow uphill; It has barbed canyons; And there’s a giant now extinct lake that once existed at the beginning of the canyon that expands across multiple states… Grand Canyon appears to be a giant spillway from a breached natural dam (there are smaller examples of breached dams doing massive damage to rock & earth, and this could have happened while the material was softer than today. Furthermore, Grand Canyon has a lot spread out canyonage (if I can say that), whereas rivers that cut through rock go straight down, they don’t spread out). And furthermore, while Grand Canyon is all sedimentary material, there was used to be a lot more! I’ve heard that up on the plateau there are two hills around 90 feet high (if I remember correctly from what I heard, I don’t remember the exact details) which are also sedimentary… where’d all the other material go?

*There are so-called “older” layers on top of so-called “younger” layers, including I believe an entire mountain. In fact, that neat little table of “The Geologic Column” that you see in textbooks is not uniform or complete as you look around the globe (and was formed through circular reasoning – layers to date fossils and fossils to date layers, and assigning ages out of thin air before any sort of dating methods were around… and the supposedly extinct species are still alive today like the Selacant[?]/Coelacanth fish – embarressingly called “living fossils” [more like, oops, we were wrong!]).

*It has been reported that C-14 has been found in dino bones, coal, & diamonds, which does not last millions of years, it has a relatively “short” half life.

*Various soft tissues have been found in dinosaur bones, material which can’t last millions of years based on what we know, even in ideal lab conditions I believe. One of the people who discovered this was not a Creationist herself, and upon telling the person in charge what she had found, he said it couldn’t be and to check again, she told him she had, and after some back and forth she asked something like what could she present to him to show him that is what she had found, and he said nothing (not silence, but nothing could convince him). And after scrambling to find an answer to this, some evolutionists did a really botched job trying to debunk it and claim that it is possible for it to last a long time.

*Giant fossils and a different atmosphere – fossils show the planet use to have giant plants, bugs, and animals and a higher oxygen content, potentially a higher atmospheric pressure, which would create a hyperberic effect allowing/assisting such giant growth

*As I’ve heard, a number of factors, including river delta sediments go back to around the time of the Flood.

*Ice Age – the Flood actually provides the perfect conditions (and I believe I’ve heard the only conditions) to trigger an Ice Age.

*Noah’s Ark, I believe, has actually been found (and not the tourist attraction up in the glacier of Mt. Ararat, but down further in the mountainS of Ararat). It shows signs of being a giant structure, with mutliple undground scans including newer scans which actually show the bow of the boat!

*I’m sure there’s more, but let me give you some links to ponder:

Newer Noah’s Ark underground scans:
https://noahsarkscans.nz/

Noah’s Ark (old documentary – been found, several tests done, and the Turkish government has built a visitor center to the location, also newer and more advanced underground scans have shown the detailed bow of the boat under the soil, but I was having a hard time finding that video again):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNKhRl2vM1Q

Marine and dino fossils in the same formation:
https://www.icr.org/article/marine-fossils-mixed-hell-creek-dinosaurs/

”Is Genesis History” – documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM82qxxskZE

Dr. Grady McMurtry (former Atheist and Evolution teacher at University): Why I believe in a young Earth – part 1 (of many):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJGairhrPGc

Spike Psarris: Science or Story Telling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gufYmnj0Gjw

Human, giant, and dino fossilized footprints – see the tab for the movie:
https://www.footprintsinstone.com/

NOTE: The Flood was God’s divinely orchestrated judgement on sin (and, some say on genetic manipulation of the planet by supernatural fallen entities – Genesis 6 & The Book of Enoch – likely connected with the UFO phenomena – *see LA Marzuli’s website for his Watchers series and On The Trail of The Nephilim series, also Steve Quayle [Gen6 Production], Timothy Alberino, Chuck Missler, Tom Horn, Russ Dizdar, Mike From Around The World [posted on Pastor Paul Begley’s youtube channel every Thursday*]), it DOES NOT discount the idea that asteroids may have also been involved (we also see at least 1, maybe 2 deep impacts as part of God’s judgement in the book of Revelation in the End Times (which there are several good reasons to believe we are in right now). However, I think you’ll have trouble trying to explain everything we do see simply with an asteroid impact… or the fact that we’re all still here to speculate about it… or the fact that people have been depicting & describing dinosaurs (and giants) from the Bible, to the Romans & ancient Chinese & Native Americans & African tribes, all the way to modernity, and their footprints have been fossilized together with human footprints.

More resources on how real science agrees with the Bible and debunks Darwinian evolution & Atheism can be found here – covers a wide range of topics & discoveries:
https://christiananswersandresources.wordpress.com/science-resources-more-a-quick-reference-guide/

Image found here: https://evolutionfacts.com/

See the movie:
https://www.footprintsinstone.com/the-movie/

“1. This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 2. That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 3. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4. And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6. Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7. But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
~2 Peter 3:1–10

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
~John 3:16

Christ (God in the flesh Who died to pay the legal fee for our sins of breaking God’s moral laws and deserving death) rose from the dead, was seen by many, and recorded by multiple witnesses in the most attested ancient manuscript of ancient history, AND He left us physical evidence as well which has been extensively studied by scientists:

This is really what you need to be concerned about:
Scientific evidence the Shroud of Turin is not a medeival forgery:
https://youtu.be/K91jWtBTOFo

SIDE NOTE:
There may be little things here or there that you think disqualify the Flood, which I’m sure there are explanations for. However, take a look at your own view and see actual problems, like the fact that we have backward spinning planets, which should not be the case if everything spun off the sun (among other problems, different material, the orbital plain of planets being tilted off alignment with the sun’s rotation, etc.), this should not be the case with current naturalistic explanations. Mankind and chimps are NOT 98 – 99% similar, but actually around 85%, which is similar to other animal types as well (which along with getting rid of our supposed linkage based on our looks, simply does not allow enough time for Darwinian evolution to have happened – which is also the case if it were 99% similar [which it isn’t, they threw out millions of base pairs in order to make that deceptive claim], and that’s IF you had a working mechanism, which you don’t – natural selection SELECTS existing genetic info, and mutations are almost always bad/detrimental and we have mutation correctors in our genes, and truly random events do not produce anything meaningful – much less anything complex, meaningful, and useful – much less complex, meaningful, and useful symbiotic relationships), etc. (there are many more issues).