Er, what? There is no evidence whatsoever, outside the Bible, of any world-wide flood. There IS ample evidence of civilizations carrying on, with little or no change before, during and after said flood is supposed to have happened. The Big Bang is more confirmed than your mythical Flood, silly-nilly.
Dementors are probably mentioned more often than 30 times in the Harry Potter books. Does that mean they are real?
Sure, there are hundreds of historical accounts for gigantic floods that destroyed everything the historical people knew of. These are not world-wide, they are local, though devastating for the local area. The people hit by Katrina, Dorian and Maria would probably have described them as gigantic floods that nearly destroyed the whole world, if they didn’t have as much access to the outside world as we do today. The point is, none of them were ACTUALLY world-wide, nor lasted for 400 days, nor killed off all life on the planet (except that which can live in brackish water). (Noah needed two of every “kind” of non-brackish-loving plant on that Ark as well…)
Man has always lived near water, as water is life. Periodically, floods happen, and they are often devastating and uncontrollable. It’s no wonder that the most devastating thing the ancient goat-herders could imagine, when they wrote the Bible, was a “world-wide” flood (i.e. a flood that destroyed everything they knew of).
It IS intriguing, that humans all over the world are so alike, even though they never met. Makes that whole “white supremacy” idiocy kinda moot, doesn’t it?
No-one is contesting that floods have happened, dolt! We’re just saying that there never was a World-Wide one. All those layers of sediment come from different geological periods, and most happen before man evolve.
The Old Red Sandstone is about 400 million years old, the Geiseltal lignite deposit is about 60 million years old. That’s one heck of a Flood…
You’re aware that fossilization takes A LONG TIME, right, and that it’s not exactly expected to happen on Times Square? “Today”, as in the 20th and 21st centuries, is not even a second in the history of the world. The fact that LARGE SCALE fossilization isn’t happening right now, doesn’t mean that it won’t (start to) happen in, say, 20 years, when climate change has hit hard, and pushed many life-forms to extinction.
Cars can be driven at 30 km/hour and at 300 km/hour. They are still cars. Fossilization happen BOTH gradually AND large scale. Large scale is pretty rare, just as few people drive at 300 km/hour, but they still happen.
Mainstream scientists (regardless of field, really) probably have biases, yes, as they are humans. Their biases are much fewer than yours, though, as they have studied science for many years and “chiseled away” biases in favor of “harder” knowledge.
Compared with all life that has ever existed, fossils are extremely rare (most organism are eaten/digested, after all, whether by predators or by microorganisms). Each and every one of those fossils is a transitional fossil in some respect.
As there have been many great extinctions (and one might be ongoing), there have probably also been may “explosions”. It’s too bad we won’t be here to see what comes after the next great extinction…