This is a question a lot of people ask and most scientists say no. To them, the flood does not fit in with their nonbiblical view and their six-million-year-old earth. Scientists believe that the Colorado River carved out the Grand Canyon over thousands of years and that dinosaurs died from a global catastrophe like a meteor strike. I learned in youth group; most religions include some form of a great flood. However, the many religions and legends involving some form of a flood are not scientific ways to prove the flood and will be left out. I think this event is interesting because even though those religions are false, there is a grain of truth hidden in them. The Flood did happen, and its occurrence can be proven. There are many pieces of evidence that prove the flood did occur; however, I find this evidence of the Flood interesting. It can only be explained in one rational way. We all know that fish live in water, so why are there fish well preserve hundreds of feet above sea level in a mountain? At one point in time, the mountain was underwater. The Flood can easily account for the many mountains with marine life buried in them. Genesis 7:20-21 states, ‘The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of fifteen cubits. ^21^Every living thing that moved on land perished-birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.’ According to those two verses, the mountains were underwater, and no man, livestock, or bug could walk on top of them without drowning. Only a fish could get to the mountains without dying. That is exactly what we find up there, dead fish. The only way for a fish to be preserved well is for it to be buried rapid
ly after it died. Genesis 8:2 ‘Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.’ That verse shows that water rushed out of the ground and quickly covered the earth. Rapidly moving water coming from the sea would have brought fish up the mountain. The raging water also would have disturbed the ground causing mud to mix with the water. That accounts for the well-preserved bodies of the sea creatures in the mountains. But there are many other ways to prove that the flood did occur. Not only are there a bunch of dead marine life to observe way up in a mountain, but there is also a bunch of geological features underground you can observe. As the water rushed over the surface of the earth, it brought sediment. Sediment is like silty mud found on the bottom of lakes, rivers, and oceans. Sediment comes in many colors and mixtures. Some scientists say that all the sediment they have found is thousands of years old. However, if the Flood did occur, it would have brought the sediment in much faster than the scientists predicted. Scientists have been known to make mistakes in predicting how long something takes to form. For example, they said it would take at least a couple hundred years to form a glacier. A couple of years later a squadron of WWII fighter planes was found buried under ice. Scientists were wrong there so they could be wrong here as well. The way the sediment is laying down also points to how it got there. In the article that Dr. Snelling A. Andrew wrote, he explains that if the sediment came from the north, there would be sediment waves pointing south. That is exactly what we see in the Grand Canyon.