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The great flood of Noah.The Biblical flood story has been passed off as mythical by many. While there is no doubt that the story is miraculous, extra-biblical records of an ancient "flood story" are incredibly consistent with the Bible's account. These additional flood stories are found in cultures all over the world. What does all this mean for the story of a global flood? Is the story realistic? Is the historical evidence consistent? 

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Evidence for the flood. Fossils in sedimentary layers provide clues regarding the nature and dynamics of rock formation conditions. Fossil footprint trackways provide significant evidence for catastrophic conditions. They paint a picture of all kinds of animals fleeing to higher ground while wading through fast moving water. Polystrate fossil trees also point to a dramatic past. Stripped of their tops and roots, these logs floated in an upright position and were buried in the same orientation through multiple different layers of sediment. These logs often contain fossils of animals and sea creatures mixed together. All of this evidence is most consistent with a global catastropic flood...an event which even explains the Ice-Age!  

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Evidence for the flood. Sedimentary rock layers lie conformably over each other, without evidence of erosion between them. This is the case even when the layers are unconventional. For example, entire sections of layers are missing in some locations, which represents gaps of tens to hundreds of millions of years, according to the conventional geologic column. Yet there is no evidence of erosion where the missing layers should be. In other instances, older rocks are situated on top of younger rocks, and do so over dozens of square kilometres. Once more, the layers sit perfectly over one another without surface disturbance. What explains this kind of evidence best? Long-age processes or a single global flood event?

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Evidence for the flood. Sedimentary rock makes up about 75% of the earth's surface - a type of rock primarily laid down by water. Sedimentary rock strata combinations have the same deposition patterns around the world. In addition, single, continuous, layers of sedimentary rock can cover areas stretching hundreds of thousands of square kilometres and contain numerous fossils. How did these rocks form? By small, local, catastrophic conditions or a single, global flood situation? If local and spread out over millions of years, why is there a distinct lack of erosion between rock layers?

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Fossil evidence for evolution. Many rock layers contain fossils of both extinct species and species that exist today. This presents a fascinating opportunity to see if the species alive today have evolved compared to their fossilised ancestors. Research examining this found no change between the species, despite the assumed age of the fossils being millions of years in the past. If evolution occurred and continues to occur, why haven't the species alive today changed dramatically?

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Fossil evidence for evolution. Certain rock layers contain numerous different fossilised organisms not found in the layers below them. Cambrian rock is a good example of this. Cambrian fossils are all fully-formed species - no intermediates. The layers underneath have no intermediates either, nor evidence of erosion which would suggest missing rock layers. The fully-formed species just suddenly appear in the so-called "Cambrian Explosion". Where are the intermediate fossils? What does this mean for evolution?

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Fossil evidence for evolution. Evolutionists claim that the fossil record provides the most fundamental evidence that evolution occurred. If evolution did indeed occur, we would expect evidence for this to permeate all levels of investigation in the fossil record - from first glance to the finest details. Assuming the fossil record represents long ages, examples of intermediate species in evolutionary transition should be found captured in the rock layers. But is this actually what we see?

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Fossils and archaeology. Evolutionary assumptions place fossil formation millions of years in the past. However, fossils themselves present some problems with this assumption. Many palaeontologists have now been able to extract soft tissues from fossils, such as proteins, DNA, collagen, red blood cells and haemoglobin. These molecules are very delicate and degrade in 20,000 years or less in average conditions. This evidence is completely at odds with long age theories. Soft tissue molecules, such as DNA, also provide evidence that directly challenges conventional thought about species evolution.

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The fossil record presents some stunning realities about what life was like on earth in the past. The diversity of life species was extraordinary compared to what we have today. Fossils also tell a story of massive extinction. And the way the fossil record has preserved evidence of these countless different species can only be conceivable through catastrophic conditions. If at first the fossil record seemed to indicate long age rock layer and fossil formation by gradual processes, the evidence that has now accumulated calls this into serious question.

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The fossil record is considered to be the primary foundational evidence that validates evolution. Geologists have thought it seems to paint a picture of long ages and slow gradual processes in which species grew to be more complex over time. This perspective was a foundational viewpoint for Darwin when he developed his evolutionary theory. But is this the picture the fossil record really paints of the past? Are there clues in the fossil record that suggest what happening in the past was very different?

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