Bible Flood Essay

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Looking thoroughly at evidential proof of a worldwide flood, there are multiple biblical accounts, written accounts, and scientific statements that many scholars believe the claims of the catastrophic event [the worldwide flood] actually happened. Is there really evidence that proves the world wide flood actually happened that is written about in the book of Genesis? The Bible gives testimony of the Great Flood and how it covered the whole earth: “Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it was raised high above the earth” (Gen 17:7 [NKJV]).Many Christians and scholars have questioned the Word of God; however, investigating to get answers will be the conclusion, if the Great Flood actually happened …show more content…
The Bible also gives a pictorial view of what exactly happened. Looking at a globe, one cannot deny that the land masses of continents could connect together like a jigsaw puzzle to make one large land mass. This shows that the world we live in today is nothing like the world before the flood. Looking at the evidence deposited in the earth from thousands of years ago, something that can be seen, touched, smelled, will be paramount in understanding the truth about the Great Flood. As a matter of fact, the evidence of fossils will not only prove there was aquatic life over the earth, but evidence in high places around the globe. The Biblical writing defines that the earth during the pre-flood is no longer the same as it is seen today. “Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished” (2 Peter 3:6 [KJV]). Explaining the world changed from formal times to …show more content…
To be exact, coiled marine cephalopods, which are fossil ammonites, are one example that proves aquatic life was at one time in Nepal, of South Asia. Furthermore, fossils and different layers of the earth are found in North America in the Grand Canyon layers, which prove a flood created the canyons in days, not millions of years as evolutionist teach. First, evidence that takes away from evolution is that: evolutionists would have to believe that the Colorado River flowed up hill; the Colorado River is more than 4,000 below the elevation where the Colorado River meets the Grand Canyon. When you look at this through a creationist viewpoint, a massive amount of water came crashing into the land to forge valleys, the water washed sediment down and left layers of evidence. The layers of evidence have left fossil grave yards high and low in the Grand Canyon. Moreover, millions of natiuloids are buried in the limestone layer of the Grand Canyon. Dr. Steve Austin, author, research geologist with a Ph. D from Penn State University in sedimentary geology, the senior research scientist in Dallas, Texas at the

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