This article presents a list of questions that the
story of Noah's Ark and a global flood leave unanswered and
probably unanswerable, such as: How did all the fish
survive? and, When did granite batholiths form?
While flood myths are common to practically every
culture on the planet, most of them are significantly
different in detail. This article describes nearly a
hundred flood myths originating from cultures all over the
globe.
For many years, creationists claimed that a set of
human tracks were found alongside dinosaur tracks in the
Paluxy riverbed near Glen Rose, Texas. However, due in
large part to the diligent investigative and scientific
work of Glen Kuban, even most creationists now doubt the
authenticity of the "man tracks".
Creationists and catastrophists have attempted to
justify a global flood by claiming that there are fossils
cutting through many geological strata. A number of
so-called "polystrate" fossils are examined here.
Creationist John Woodmorappe has given himself the
daunting task of making the biblical flood myth seem
plausible. As this review illustrates, he was not entirely
successful.
Many creationists argue that Spirit Lake near Mount St.
Helens proves that coal could have formed in a short period
of time following a catastrophic global flood. This article
challenges the creationist coal formation scenario.
Young-earth creationists often claim that the geologic
column -- the sequence of rocks that document Earth's
ancient history -- is cobbled together from bits and pieces
of scanty and unreliable evidence. Nothing could be further
from the truth. In fact, the entire geologic column can be
observed from top to bottom in several locales, including
North Dakota, as this article describes.
Some creationists contend that large shale deposits are
the result of a volcanic activity during the Bible's
catastrophic global flood, but their contentions are
contradicted by the physical evidence.
Jehovah's Witnesses and a number of creationists have
claimed that water vapor formed a global canopy in the
Earth's upper atmosphere prior to the great flood. This
article examines a few of the physical difficulties
presented by such a hypothesis.
Creationists often claim that geological strata are
found out of order. What they fail to understand is that
the phenomenon of overthrusting is the cause. This article
explains the concept and alludes to an example popular
among creationists: the Lewis Thrust.
Thrusting that occurs along fault lines can sometimes
invert the order rock strata are usually found in. This
article refutes several common creationist arguments
relating to thrust faults, including some specific claims
about the best-known example, the Lewis Thrust.
