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Line 22: − [[Louis Leakey]], a noted archaeologist, found evidence of a large flood while excavating a ancient [[Sumerian]] city. This has been speculated to be the Great Flood.+ + + + + + + +
→Evidence: added fossil tracks
Many people, including some Christians do not believe that the Great Flood had taken place, and have cited a lack of geological evidence for a global flood [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html][http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/other_papers/rapid_post_flood_speciation.shtml]. What is ignored in this statement is the fact that approximately 75% of the earth's land area is sedimentary rock (water-laid), as well as evidence from the fossil record showing animals which have died violently, as in a cataclysm, and buried so rapidly that normal biological agents could not completely dispose of the carcasses, as is done under normal observation.
Many people, including some Christians do not believe that the Great Flood had taken place, and have cited a lack of geological evidence for a global flood [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html][http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/other_papers/rapid_post_flood_speciation.shtml]. What is ignored in this statement is the fact that approximately 75% of the earth's land area is sedimentary rock (water-laid), as well as evidence from the fossil record showing animals which have died violently, as in a cataclysm, and buried so rapidly that normal biological agents could not completely dispose of the carcasses, as is done under normal observation.
===Fossilized tracks===
According to scientists, tracks can be fossilized under certain conditions: they must be laid down in moist, fine-grained sediment (such as a beach); the track needs to be exposed to the sun so that it may dry and harden, and one hard, the imprint must be buried for lithification [http://hoopermuseum.earthsci.carleton.ca/trackway/form.htm][http://www.cudenver.edu/NR/rdonlyres/eocduwg6h2lbh2t2dodpuddbzjllqbuo2mnlqiu4b4iyfizk2ofo33fxize7onhybfyou7eebjjbacbn7fd67uzddhb/wright.pdf], prior to erosion taking place by which the track is exposed.
Direct observation as to how tracks are made in accordance with the [[Scientific Method] contradicts this explanation. There is no known way for the sun to bake soft mud in such a manner as to prevent it returning to soft mud when water washes over the surface. Even in arid environments it has been demonstrated that tracks left behind in soft soil that has been baked by the sun will disappear during the next rain, even if that rain takes place a year later, such as in the Kalahari Desert of Africa. This photograph taken in Argentina shows dinosaur tracks across what appears to be a land parched by the sun [http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/veseth/watson/Toby/May2003/pages/Fossilized_savannah_and_tra.htm]; such land can be observed anywhere on earth when the sun dries out the water and the soil begins to contract and split. Under normal conditions both the tracks and the parched land would have been erased by the next rain.
Observation on dinosaur trackways in several examples [http://planetdinosaur.com/dinosaurs/anatomy.htm][http://pbisotopes.ess.sunysb.edu/lig/Field_Trips/hartford-basin/][http://www.charm.net/~edrtjd/kids/dino.htm] reveal a lack of clarity on trackways made near other, clearer tracks. The only explanation for this is the less-clear tracks were made prior to a wave of water washing over the beach, followed by the next set, and so on, until they were buried and preserved immediately. Such a demonstration is apparant in the January, 1993 article on dinosaurs from National Geographic (pg 16-17), where not only are five sets of tracks laid one after the other with water washing in between, but a layer of a different kind of sediment was embedded into the last set of tracks.
Fossilization has also occured with raindrops [http://www.grisda.org/colorado/images/04-11-12%20---%205b%20Fossil%20Trace%20-%20raindrops%20close.JPG]and other evidence of water action [http://www.grisda.org/colorado/index.htm]. For the preservation of such evidence in soft mud to survive being fossilized, such evidence must be buried rapidly by other material to remove it from the weather, and place it in a condition to allow the original material the trace was left in to harden into rock. The only known agent to allow this to happen is by destructive flooding.
===Black Sea theory===
===Black Sea theory===
In 2000, explorers discovered evidence that humans lived where the [[Black Sea]] now is and speculated the sea was created during a great flood <ref>http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/09/13/great.flood.finds.ap/</ref>. Dr. Robert Ballard expanded on this theory, postulating that the Black Sea was much lower during the Ice Age (including the finding of a beach thousands of feet underwater), and when the walls holding back the Mediteranean Sea at the Bosporus broke, the sea rushed in and drowned the inhabitants; those who survived told the tale orally, and according to Ballard this became the basis for the flood accounts of Genesis and Gilgamesh [http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/ax/frame.html]. This theory is dependent on a localized flood, and not the world-wide flood as recorded in Genesis and many other cultural traditions.
In 2000, explorers discovered evidence that humans lived where the [[Black Sea]] now is and speculated the sea was created during a great flood <ref>http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/09/13/great.flood.finds.ap/</ref>. Dr. Robert Ballard expanded on this theory, postulating that the Black Sea was much lower during the Ice Age (including the finding of a beach thousands of feet underwater), and when the walls holding back the Mediteranean Sea at the Bosporus broke, the sea rushed in and drowned the inhabitants; those who survived told the tale orally, and according to Ballard this became the basis for the flood accounts of Genesis and Gilgamesh [http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/ax/frame.html]. This theory is dependent on a localized flood, and not the world-wide flood as recorded in Genesis and many other cultural traditions.