Biblical Flood: Actual Event or Myth

The point of this thread is whether or not there is evidence for the "Great Flood" described in the Bible. If it was an actual event and not a myth then the theory of Evolution/Current Scientific Stance is not accurate. If however, the evidence suggest an actual global flood took place then the veracity of Genesis is greatly supported.

@Red, I hope you agree this topic should serve the purpose of evidence for or against the theory of evolution. If not tell me now. I don't want to go slogging through all this and then you dismiss it at the end.

 

A lot of cultures have legends of a "Great Flood," even as far as South America and Inca legends. Yes, at one time eons ago the Earth was probably covered in water but that was before the existence of mankind.

Just as it is a historical fact that a man named Jesus lived in those times but it doesn't mean there is proof of the Virgin Birth or that Jesus was anything more than a mortal man.

 

I think this is probably incorrect but it is an interesting position. What makes you think it was before mankind walked the earth?

 

"Long before the discovery of the scablands, geologists dismissed the role of catastrophic floods in interpreting European geology. By the end of the 19th century such ideas not only were out of fashion but were geological heresy. When J Harlen Bretz uncovered evidence of giant floods in eastern Washington in the 1920s, it took most of the 20th century for other geologists to believe him. Geologists had so thoroughly vilified the concept of great floods that they could not believe it when somebody actually found evidence of one."

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-biblical-type-floods-real-absolutely-enormous

Geologist finding fossilized sea creature on mountain ranges requires them to postulate that the mountain was in fact seabed millions of years before. The catastrophic remaking of the earth's surface is an uncomfortable idea for those that believe in evolution. Evolution requires incremental changes over enormously long time periods.

 

Logic. Everybody would have drowned. Sure, there have been lots of catastrophic floods in the geologic history of the earth but for one to cover the entire earth at a single time is not really believable unless it happened before continents developed. More likely the legends are tales of more localized disasters. Hurricane Katrina caused a great flood in New Orleans. If we lived in simpler times I can see the affect inhabitants attributing it to "the gods being angered"

 

And it was determined that the flood was created by a the release of a glacial damn. Not God.

Mountain ranges rise and evolution does not require incremental changes.

 

What do you mean everybody would have drowned? It's certainly possible someone survived in remote locations. All we would have to do is find existing settlements that were destroyed by the flood. Besides, if nobody was around why are all these legends of a flood so prevlent around the globe? They would've never even known about it.

 

My understanding of Darwin's original theory is that there should be a record of fossils with incremental changes over millions of years. Why are you saying this is untrue?

 

How many different "The Floods" have there been? Almost everywhere that people have lived there have at one time or another been a catastrophic flood or two. The biblical flood probably happened somewhere in the middle east and affected the ancestors of those who would later retell those legends and eventually work its way into the written Bible. The biblical flood did not cover the entire earth. It probably covered a significant portion of the inhabited area of whatever country now is there.

 

Scientists revise theories as more and more evidence is produced. There are many evolutionary scientists who argue that as species adapt over time, cataclysmic events trigger the most rapid evolutionary changes.

Just as Einstein developed the Theory of Relativity, it has been expanded and modified as more information fill in the gaps within it.

Science works toward a more perfect answer. Unlike its opponents, it does not stay it has the answer.