Question: What evidence is there for a worldwide flood?

If the Genesis Flood, as described in Genesis 7 and 8, really
occurred, what evidence would we expect to find? After noting
in Genesis 7 that all the high hills and the mountains were
covered by water and that all air-breathing life on the land
was swept away and perished, it should be obvious what
evidence we would expect to find.

Wouldn't we expect to find rock layers all over the earth filled
with billions of dead animals and plants that were buried rapidly
and fossilized in sand, mud, and lime? Of course, and that's
exactly what we find. Furthermore, even though the catastrophic
geologic activity of the Flood would have waned in the immediate
post-Flood period, ongoing mini-catastrophes would still have
produced localized fossil deposits.

Countless billions of plant and animal fossils are found in extensive
"graveyards" where they had to be buried rapidly on a massive
scale. Often the fine details of the creatures are exquisitely preserved.

For example, billions of straight-shelled, chambered nautiloids
are found fossilized with other marine creatures in a 7 foot (2 m)
thick layer within the Redwall Limestone of Grand Canyon.
This fossil graveyard stretches for 180 miles (290 km) across
northern Arizona and into southern Nevada, covering an area
of at least 10,500 square miles (30,000 km2). These squid-like
fossils are all different sizes, from small, young nautiloids to
their bigger, older relatives.

To form such a vast fossil graveyard required 24 cubic miles
(100 km3) of lime sand and silt, flowing in a thick, soup-like
slurry at more than 16 feet (5 m) per second
(more than 11 mph [18 km/h]) to catastrophically overwhelm
and bury this huge, living population of nautiloids.

Read the rest of this sneak peek article from the upcoming
issue of Answers magazine:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v3/n2/world-graveyard


Source: AnswersinGenesis.org