World-wide Flood Evidences

• Creationists date the flood to about 5,000 years ago
• Earth's geologic features require a catastrophic explanation
• Sedimentary rock formations (water deposited, e.g. sandstone) cover continent-sized regions
• Large coal, oil, ore deposits are not forming today
• Great fossil beds exist requiring rapid burial at massive scale
• Mountains made of "ocean-bottom" rocks, ocean fossils on continent interior mountains, fossils of warm habitat plants/animals near the poles
• Many exceptions to standard geologic column (e.g. out of order strata, different "age" fossils found together)

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Is there evidence that there was once a flood which covered the entire earth? If this were the case you would think the result would be obvious, and creationists say it is!

Global flood evidences include:

• The earth's features (such as mountains, canyons, regional stratigraphy (large-scale single rock beds), soft bending of rock strata, etc.) require some type of catastrophic explanation.
• Sedimentary rock formations (formed through water deposition) cover substantial portions of North America and other continents.
• There is no evidence that coal, oil, or ore deposits are being formed today, yet massive deposits are found in the earth.
• Likewise, the earth contains many great fossil beds, none of which appear to be forming today either. Fossils require rapid burial to be preserved.
• Exceptions in the geologic column indicate that it was not formed in a gradual manner, such as the appearance of single trees that extend vertically through multiple "ages".
• Detailed study of Carbon-14 dating results provide a date for the flood of around 5,000 years ago, which agrees fairly well with the Biblical chronology (see Whitelaw, "Time, Life, and History in the Light of 15,000 Radiocarbon Dates", in "Speak to the Earth").