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They go where the facts lead. One of these facts is there was no global flood.
Prove it.
Flooding is easily located in geological strata. Ask any geologist this and he will tell you. There isn't anything out there to suggest such a thing. Here are some other things to look at though.
6. Implications of a Flood
A global flood would have produce evidence contrary to the evidence we see.
How do you explain the relative ages of mountains? For example, why weren't the Sierra Nevadas eroded as much as the Appalachians during the Flood?
Why is there no evidence of a flood in ice core series? Ice cores from Greenland have been dated back more than 40,000 years by counting annual layers. [Johnsen et al, 1992,; Alley et al, 1993] A worldwide flood would be expected to leave a layer of sediments, noticeable changes in salinity and oxygen isotope ratios, fractures from buoyancy and thermal stresses, a hiatus in trapped air bubbles, and probably other evidence. Why doesn't such evidence show up?
How are the polar ice caps even possible? Such a mass of water as the Flood would have provided sufficient buoyancy to float the polar caps off their beds and break them up. They wouldn't regrow quickly. In fact, the Greenland ice cap would not regrow under modern (last 10 ky) climatic conditions.
Why did the Flood not leave traces on the sea floors? A year long flood should be recognizable in sea bottom cores by (1) an uncharacteristic amount of terrestrial detritus, (2) different grain size distributions in the sediment, (3) a shift in oxygen isotope ratios (rain has a different isotopic composition from seawater), (4) a massive extinction, and (n) other characters. Why do none of these show up?
Why is there no evidence of a flood in tree ring dating? Tree ring records go back more than 10,000 years, with no evidence of a catastrophe during that time. [Becker & Kromer, 1993; Becker et al, 1991; Stuiver et al, 1986]
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html#flood
There are mountains and mountains of data that points to the fact that a global flood has never happend.
There is a book written 3000 years ago that says there was. Have you got anything else that would PROVE that it did happen?
There are many mountains of data that say it did happen. Still waiting for proof it didn't.
Why don't you present some of that then? Meet me half way here.
And by the way, what I gave you was proof. It's not my fault if you don't read it.
No, you provide opinions.
Still waiting for your proof.
Lugnut, so you mean to tell me that Ice doesn't float in water? It's only an opinion? The amount of rainfall required for the world to be covered like the Bible says would have destroyed the Polar ICE Caps. In the time since then, it would have been impossible for that ice to reform to the levels that they are at today. The means to do so would have required a MASSIVE cold snap of the likes of what they had in "The Day After Tomorrow". And let me tell you something. I'm a meteorologist. That has never happend, and never will.
Flooding does leave geographic evidence. That is a fact, cold and hard. Soils will be displaced, and it is extremely easy to spot where a flood has occured in the past. No evidence has been found anywhere in the world to support this story. None. Geologic records are clean.
Geology is a science founded on fact. There is evidence that you can see, touch, and even taste if you want. Geology says a global flood has NEVER occured. Check that link I gave you. It gives item of evidence after item of evidence. It is not opinion. It is well stated proof presented in a scientific matter.
I don't even need to touch the impossibility of the task of collecting every animal on earth, or explaining how it's impossible for things to die at the same time to be buried in drastically differant strata (like the dinosaurs, compaired to more present creatures), because the geological record already disproves the possibility of the story.
