Lately I have been noticing creationists bringing up the flood to "prove" or validate an argument they are debating. To silence this and end the myth of the global flood I present this thread. If you believe it to be true I challange you to answer these questions with science and not the typical "god did it" answer.
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#1.) Where did the Flood water come from, and where did it go?
#2.) If there was a vapor canopy, how was the water suspended, and what caused it to fall all at once when it did?
#3.) If there was a vapor canopy a part of the atmosphere, how would it not raise the atmospheric pressure accordingly, raising oxygen and nitrogen levels to toxic levels?
#4.) If the water canopy began as ice in orbit, how would the gravitational potential energy not raise the temperature past boiling?
#5.) How would a vapor canopy refrain from blocking enough sunlight to reduce the the earth's temperature greatly?
#6.) How would a vapor canopy remain intact above the ozone layer as UV radiation would invariably break apart water molecules?
#7.) If there was a hydroplate (Flood waters coming from a layer of water underground, released by a catastrophic rupture of the earth's crust, shot above the atmosphere, and fell as rain.) how was the water contained?
#8.) If there was a hydroplate, how was the water not superheated?
#9.) If there was a hydroplate, where is the evidence? Fissures? Deposits?
#10.) If the global flood water came from an ice comet, how was it not superheated as it entered the atmosphere?
#11.) 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?
#12.) Why is there no evidence of a flood in ice core series?
#13.) 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, how are they still intact?
#14.) 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?
#15.) Why is there no evidence of a flood in tree ring dating?
#16.) Why are geological eras consistent worldwide? How do you explain worldwide agreement between "apparent" geological eras and several different (independent) radiometric and nonradiometric dating methods?
#17.) How was the fossil record sorted in an order convenient for evolution? #18.) Why didn't at least one dinosaur make it to the high ground with the elephants?
#18.) Why are organisms (such as brachiopods) which are very similar hydrodynamically (all nearly the same size, shape, and weight) still perfectly sorted?
#19.) How are coral reefs hundreds of feet thick and miles long were preserved intact with other fossils below them?
#20.) How did sensitive marine life such as coral survive?
#21.) Why do small organisms dominate the lower strata, whereas fluid mechanics says they would sink slower and thus end up in upper strata?
#22.) Why are there no human artifacts found except in the very uppermost strata? If, at the time of the Flood, the earth was overpopulated by people with technology for shipbuilding, why were none of their tools or buildings mixed with trilobite or dinosaur fossils?
#23.) Why is ecological information is consistent within but not between layers? Fossil pollen is one of the more important indicators of different levels of strata. Each plant has different and distinct pollen, and, by telling which plants produced the fossil pollen, it is easy to see what the climate was like in different strata. Was the pollen hydraulically sorted by the flood water so that the climatic evidence is different for each layer?
#24.) Deep in the geologic column there are formations which could have originated only on the surface, such as: rain drops, river channels, wind-blown dunes, beaches, glacial deposits, burrows, in-place trees, soil, desiccation cracks, footprints, meteorites, meteor craters, coral reefs, and cave systems. How do surface features appear far from the surface? How could these have appeared in the midst of a catastrophic flood?
#25.) How does a global flood explain angular unconformities?
#26.) How were mountains and valleys formed?
#27.) When did granite batholiths form?
#28.) How can a single flood be responsible for such extensively detailed layering?
#29.) How do you explain the formation of varves?
#30.) Where did all of the heat go? The geologic record includes roughly 8 x 10^24 grams of lava flows and igneous intrusions. Assuming (conservatively) a specific heat of 0.15, this magma would release 5.4 x 10^27 joules while cooling 1100 degrees C. In addition, the heat of crystallization as the magma solidifies would release a great deal more heat. There are roughly 5 x 10^23 grams of limestone in the earth's sediments, and the formation of calcite releases about 11,290 joules/gram. If only 10% of the limestone were formed during the Flood, the 5.6 x 10^26 joules of heat released would be enough to boil the flood waters. Erosion and crustal movements have erased an unknown number of impact craters on earth, but Creationists Whitcomb and DeYoung suggest that cratering to the extent seen on the Moon and Mercury occurred on earth during the year of Noah's Flood. The heat from just one of the largest lunar impacts released an estimated 3 x 10^26 joules; the same sized object falling to earth would release even more energy. 5.6 x 10^26 joules is enough to heat the oceans to boiling. 3.7 x 10^27 joules will vaporize them completely. Since steam and air have a lower heat capacity than water, the steam released will quickly raise the temperature of the atmosphere over 1000 C. At these temperatures, much of the atmosphere would boil off the Earth. So where did all of the heat go?
#31.) How were limestone deposits formed?
#32.) How could a flood have deposited chalk?
#33.) How could the Flood deposit layers of solid salt?
#34.) How were sedimentary deposits recrystallized and plastically deformed in the short time since the Flood?
#35.) How were hematite layers laid down?
#36.) How do you explain fossil mineralization?
#37.) How did all the modern plant species survive?
#38.) How did all the fish survive?
#39.) How did diseases survive?