Evidence for the Biblical Flood

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“And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy the earth. Make yourself an ark…” (Genesis 6:13-14, English Standard Version) “For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.” (Genesis 6:17, ESV) “And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.” (Genesis 6:19, ESV) “Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.” (Genesis 6:22, ESV) “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.” (Genesis 7:11-12, ESV) Everyone has heard the story of Noah’s ark and the great Flood. But is that all it is? Just a story? If a catastrophe of this scale really happened, it would have left plenty of evidence behind. And it did. The fossil record shows evidence of a small period of time in which all the major groups of life (phyla) appear without ancestors. (Wieland, n.d.) This alleged explosion of evolution is called the Cambrian explosion. However, Christians believe the Cambrian explosion is actually the Flood, in which all life on earth is rapidly buried by sediments picked up from the flood waters. Another piece of evidence for the Flood is the perfectly preserved mammoths. The mammoths show signs of being instantly buried and frozen, many while standing up. (Brown, 1995-2013) Evidence for this is fou... ... middle of paper ... ...ttps://www.boundless.com/biology/evolution-and-the-origin-of-species/understanding-evolution/evidence-of-evolution/ Wieland, C. Exploding Evolution. Creation.com. Retrieved 4/11/2014 from http://creation.com/exploding-evolution Wise, K. 2009. One: Life’s Unexpected Explosion. Retrieved 4/11/2014 from http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v5/n1/life-explosion Creation Today. Is the Grand Canyon Proof of Noah’s Flood?. Retrieved 4/21/2014 from http://www.creationtoday.org/grand-canyon-proof/ Morris, J. 1993. Was There Really an Ice Age?. Retrieved 4/20/14 from http://www.icr.org/article/was-there-really-ice-age/ Zimmermann, K. 2013. Grand Canyon: Location, Formation, & Facts. Retrieved 4/11/2014 from http://www.livescience.com/27489-grand-canyon.html The Grand Canyon –Amazing Proof of Noah’s Flood. n.d. Retrieved 4/11/2014 from http://www.grandcanyonflood.com/

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