The Dinosaurs and Fossil Record
This area causes problems for Flood-theorists. They usually state that the dinosaur bones we find today are the remains of the dinosaurs that died during the Flood. Why then didn't Noah take any of these dinosaurs on the Ark? The Bible says he 
took two of EVERY LAND ANIMAL (and if dinosaurs were "clean", seven of each). Dinosaurs surely fit into this category, do they not? In addition, if the fossil record was indeed created during the flood, then why do we consistently find that the lower down you go, the smaller the fossils become. If you take a large tank of water, and empty a big bucket of assorted stones (ranging in size from silt and sand up to large rocks) into it, you will notice that the BIG ONES SINK FIRST, with the fine silt and sand settling on top. If the fossil record was created during the flood, surely we should see large bones in the lower strata, and the smallest ones higher up. What we actually find is the exact opposite, which directly contradicts this part of the Flood hypothesis and supports the evolutionary view. If all the land animals died during the flood, we would expect the fossil record to be a hopelessly jumbled mess, with human bones being mixed up with dinosaur bones and Trilobites. What we actually find is a neatly layered set of strata that appear to be in chronological order, showing the evolutionary development from early, simple creatures up to modern, complex creatures. In addition, creatures of approximately similar size shape and weight should (according to the Creation theory) sink at about the same rate. Why aren't dog skeletons mixed in with Compsognathus? Why aren't elephants mixed in with Stegosaurus? Why isn't pollen mixed all the way through, instead of starting at the strata containing flowers? Could it be that they were not all alive at the same time era?
There are many interesting features that can be found all over the planet, throughout the depth of the Earth's crust. Apparently, all the sedimentary rocks were deposited during the Deluge. Unfortunately, many features are simply impossible to create during a global, catastrophic Flood. This image (below) is not intended to be an accurate representation of any particular location, it was just knocked together to show the type of layers and boundaries that can be observed all over the planet. Supposedly, deposited during a single year of rain and flood.
The anomalies, as far as a Flood is concerned, include:
» Coal seams, interleaved between marine sediment layers.
» Salt seams, which are produced when shallow seas dry up (not easy during a flood).
» Coal seams, exhibiting signs of forest fire (not easy during a flood)
» Rain-marks.
» Desiccation-cracks, when mud is baked dry in the sun
» Wind-blown sand-dunes
» Roots and burrows. Okay at the surface, but interleaved between layers of sediment?
» Meteor impact craters
» Dinosaur footprints. Some dino prints have been found on coal seams, which were supposedly created during the flood.
» Unconformities - very common. Sediments are often tilted, raised, eroded by wind and rain, and then more sediment is deposited on top.
Individually, the Creationists might explain any one of these away. However, these can be found all over the planet, in many different configurations. The picture here is entirely feasible, but not in the context of a Flood. Not included even are igneous intrusions, which only it makes it more difficult for Flood Theorists to explain. The Geologic Column, which was originally described by Creationists, is the single strongest piece of evidence against the Noachian Deluge. It simply could not have been created during a yearlong Flood.
The flood year would have had to go like this:
1. Sediment
2. Waters recede, dinosaurs walk on sediment
3. Forest grows, dies, turns to coal
4. Sediment
5. Water recedes, meteor strike
6. Sediment
7. Water recedes, plants grow, still-living rodents burrow
8. Sediment
9. Water recedes, rain marks ground, rain "craters" dry and harden
10. Floods, shallow sea evaporates in a few days, leaving salt
11. More flood, sedimentation (without washing salt away)
12. Flood recedes, mud bakes dry in sun
13. Forest grows, dies, and turns to coal. Maybe forest fires.
14. More sediment
And all in the space of a few months. If you accept a literal reading of Genesis that is the sort of scenario, you have to attempt to deal with.
This all seems an incredibly complex way to go about ridding the world of sin and sinners, doesn't it? Not only that, it does not seem to have actually worked. If God intended to re-breed the human race from the pure and virtuous Noah, why do we see so much "sin" in the world today? Surely, God would have foreseen the outcome. I suppose it could be argued that the troubles in the world today are as nothing compared with that in Noah's time, but I don't think the people around Noah had problems with drugs, schoolchildren with assault rifles, and weapons of mass destruction (apart from God, of course). If the world today is at least as bad as Noah's world, why did God bother? Maybe he cannot see the future. God, who can create or destroy entire galaxies with no effort at all, has to get some poor slob to build an enormous ship, transport millions of animals from all over the planet to this ship, flood the entire planet, drain the water and then redistribute the animals again. What is the point? Why not just click his fingers and cause everything to be as he wishes it to be? Why go to the trouble of causing the terrible deaths by drowning of billions of animals, birds, insects and humans? This includes, of course, all those innocent babies and children who have not had time to start sinning yet. Drowning babies... Quite odd behaviour for an all-powerful, infinitely compassionate God, is it not? Heck, I suppose God knew they were going to grow up into sinners and decided to get rid of them early. Of course, as they had not actually sinned yet, they could not go to Hell, so I suppose they must have gone to Heaven. In that case, why did they deserve to have the life choked out of them by violent, muddy floodwaters? God does work in a mysterious way…
I cannot imagine how anyone could give any credibility whatsoever to the story of Noah's Ark, it really does defy belief. Then of course, God can do anything, we should not attempt to understand him, and what he does do; he does in ways beyond our comprehension. I do not think he could have come up with anything more mysteriously incomprehensible than the bizarre Ark story. That is the problem, really. In order to accept Noah's Ark as fact, you must believe in God first. Without belief in God, it is just laughable. You are not going to convince many people to follow your religion by sitting them down and saying "Well, let me tell you this fascinating and factual story about a man, some animals and a big boat a few thousand years ago". With total, unquestioning belief in God, it works, no matter how strange it seems, as you can just tell yourself "God sorted it out". To me, though, that just seems to be a huge cop-out.
Genesis 9 2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands.
Not wanting to go too much into the smaller issues of the Bible, but I would like to challenge every person who believe the bible word for word to come to Cape Town and have a swim with a great white shark. Not in a protective cage, just you your swimsuit and a hungry shark. We will see who is scared of whom!
Genesis 9 3 Everything that lives and move will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
“Everything” that “lives and moves” is food for us! Not just certain “clean” animal, but everything.
Genesis 9 6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.
The inconsistency of God’s judgement, he spared Cain when he killed his brother, now if someone kills him, he must be killed.
Genesis 9 9"I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you-the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you-every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." 12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud, 15I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."
Not only does God set a covenant with man, but also He feels so bad for what He did, He even made a covenant with all the animals. He places a rainbow in the sky when it rain, so that if He sees it He will go, “Oh yes, that’s right… I must remember not to kill every living being on earth again”. I do not know if He has forgotten to look at the sky recently, because there are thousands of people dieing in floods every year!
