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such a change be effected? To change the density and/or the temperature of at least a quarter of the
earth's crust fast enough to raise and lower the ocean floor in a matter of months would require
mechanisms beyond anything ever proposed in any of the Flood models.

Why are most sediments on high ground? Most sediments are carried until the water slows
down or stops. If the water stopped in the oceans, we should expect more sediments to have accu-
mulated there. It has been shown that during a flood of the magnitude of that proposed by those
who think the waters completely covered the highest mountains, currents would be faster over land
masses than over ocean basins (Baumgardner, 1994). Therefore, sediments should, on the whole,
be removed from the land masses and deposited in ocean basins. Yet sediments on the ocean basin
average 0.6 km thick, while on the land masses (including continental shelves), they average 2.6
km thick.

What about water draining from the land? The water draining from the land would have
produced tremendous torrents. There is evidence of this in the Scablands of Washington state,
however, such evidence is NOT found worldwide -- indicating that the Flood could not have been
worldwide.

Furthermore, such a wholesale restructuring of the earth's topography -- compressed into
just a few months -- would have produced tsunamis large enough to circle the earth and overturn
any structure floating on the surface of the water. The aftershocks alone from the restructuring
would have devastated the planet for years afterward.

Why is there no evidence of a worldwide flood in ice core samples? Ice core samples
from Greenland have been dated back more than 40,000 years by counting the annual layers (John-
sen et al, 1992; Alley et al, 1993). A worldwide flood would be expected to leave a layer of sedi-
ments, noticeable changes in salinity and oxygen isotope ratios, fractures from buoyancy and
thermal stresses, a hiatus in trapped air bubbles, and many other traces. No such evidence showed
up in the core samples.

Not only that, but a year long global 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, (4) a massive extinction. None of these indications
have ever showed up on the sea floors.

It simply is not possible that the vast sedimentary deposits of the earth's crust were depos-
ited during Noah's flood, and that all the fossils within that strata died during the flood of Noah's
day. The Scriptures, the earth's geology -- and a little common sense -- show the fallacy of that be-
lief system.

In Deuteronomy 33:15 the Bible clearly says that the earth's mountains are very, very old:

And for the chief things of the ANCIENT MOUNTAINS, and for the precious things of the LASTING
HILLS...

When Noah's flood occurred, the Bible says the waters of the Flood rained upon the tops of
the mountains -- so the present-day mountains already existed:
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