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 rapidly 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.
Those are not the only facts that we can use to help prove that the flood did happen. In a place called Paria Canyon, we see what is called wave formation. A wave formation is created over time when sand is blown or washed in a particular direction. As the layers build up over time, the bottom layers solidify and become rock. This process is called compaction. When the rocks become compacted. The wave-like pattern becomes part of the rock. It acts like a fossil in a way. The waves in the Paria Canyon are up to five miles long. There is also another interesting thing found in the Paria Canyon wave formation, whirlpools. The appearance of whirlpools suggests that water moved the sand into that pattern. If the flood did happen, the raging water would create whirlpools all over the wave formation in Paria Canyon. The pressure of the water would have compressed the sand dunes and solidified the wave formation.
There is another way to prove that the flood occurred. 2 Peter 3:5-7 states “5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of the water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.” This means that the continents were broken up. That is why we have a multi-continent world. There is one theory that the world was originally one continent that they call Rodina. This is where Noah and everyone before him would have lived. Below is the diagram used in the article, “https://answersingenesis.org/geology/plate-tectonics/noahs-lost-world/” this suggests that when the floodgates opened, it broke apart the tectonic plates. This is why we have multiple continents.
The amount of evidence that proves the flood is astonishing. The scars it left behind are everywhere. There are fish in mountains and sediment spread over the continent as well as waves and whirlpools in the sand. Even our continents reflect the flood. It is extremely hard to dismiss the flood when confronted with all these facts.