Noah's Flood, as described in Genesis, did not happen

“Why did people wait so long after Babel to build cities and farm again? Problems included the tiny populations, the threat of skirmishes, and the changing climates. We also know from the fossil record that they faced constant flooding, dust storms, supervolcanoes, massive earthquakes, meteorites, and downpours of snow or rain on a scale never before seen.” [12]

“Harmful recessive alleles occur in significant numbers in most species. (Humans have, on average, 3 to 4 lethal recessive alleles each.) When close relatives breed, the offspring are more likely to be homozygous for these harmful alleles, to the detriment of the offspring. Such inbreeding depression still shows up in cheetahs; they have about 1/6th the number of motile spermatozoa as domestic cats, and of those, almost 80% show morphological abnormalities. How could more than a handful of species survive the inbreeding depression that comes with establishing a population from a single mating pair?”

“DNA extracted from bacteria that are supposed to be 425 million years old brings into question that age, because DNA could not last more than thousands of years” [1].

“The chert layer known as Fig Tree Chert, South Africa, is estimated to be three billion years old, yet it contains only amino acids in the left-handed form. A similar result applies to several Precambrian and Miocene sediments (supposedly some 1,200 million and 30 million years old respectively)” [3].

“If this sediment had been laid down over millions of years, it would have consolidated and solidified, making such incredible movement impossible” [5].

“It is not possible that polystrate fossils were buried gradually over many thousands or hundreds of thousands of years because the top part of any tree would have rotted away before it could be protected by sediment” [7].

“Irrespective of whether creationists or evolutionists do the calculations, somewhere between a few thousand and a few million mutations are enough to drive a human lineage to extinction, and this is likely to occur over a time scale of only tens to hundreds of thousands of years. This is far short of the supposed evolutionary time scales” [9].

“Natural selection favors certain already-existing genetic traits in populations by culling genes out of the gene pool; thus it helps adaptation of a population to its environment” [10].

“it is projected only 15 percent of ark animals would have achieved an average adult mass over 22 pounds (10 kg). This means that the vast majority of ark animals were smaller than a beagle, with most of those being much smaller” [14].

“A contract producer with a 2,000-head [swine] nursery should work an average of 20 to 25 hours/week, including barn cleaning and disinfection, loading and unloading, checking feeders and waterers and treating sick pigs.” [22].

“The research team found that the proportions of Noah’s Ark carefully balanced the conflicting demands of stability (resistance to capsizing), comfort (“seakeeping”), and strength. In fact, the Ark has the same proportions as a modern cargo ship” [23].

“One thing that does bother me, though, is that young earth creationists take my research and use it for their own message, and I think they are misleading people about it. Pastors and evangelists, who are in a position of leadership, are doubly responsible for checking facts and getting things right, but they have misquoted me and misrepresented the data.”

“Astronomers have discovered a special type of polarized light in our region of space that selectively destroys right-handed amino acids (Bailey 2001). This is precisely why slight excesses of left-handed amino acids have been found in several meteorites (Glavin and Dworkin 2009). Is it possible to amplify these excesses? Ronald Breslow at Columbia University has shown that evaporation of solutions of amino acids that have slight excesses of the left-handed form causes mixtures of the right- and left-handed forms of the amino acids to fall out of solution, which leaves a vast excess of left-handed forms of amino acids remaining in solution for further prebiotic reactions (Breslow and Levine 2006). Since the right-handed amino acids have been removed from solution (where chemical reactions occur), only the left-handed ones remain for further prebiotic chemistry. Another way to think about this amplification mechanism is to imagine that you have 40 black squirrels and 35 gray ones living in your backyard. The grays ones eat piñon nuts, but the black ones eat walnuts. If a disease equally wipes out both types of squirrels so that you only have four squirrels left, the remaining squirrels are almost certainly exclusively black because there were more black squirrels to begin with. Now the squirrels that frolic about in your backyard will be largely black and will eat walnuts and not piñon nuts. This illustrates how natural mechanisms can explain the tendency for left-handed amino acids in extant living organisms.”

“It is evident that when we find a bed of clay now hardened into stone and containing the roots and rootlets of these plants in their natural position, we can infer, 1st, that such beds must once have been in a very soft condition; 2dly, that the roots found in them were not drifted, but grew in their present positions; in short, that these ancient roots are in similar circumstances with those of the recent trees that underlie the Amherst marshes. In corroboration of this, we shall find, in farther examination of this [stratigraphic] section, that while some of these fossil soils support coals, other support erect trunks of trees connected with their roots and still in their natural position.

“Over the last century chronology has provided the focus of some of the most protracted and troublesome debates in a wide variety of fields, from European prehistory to biblical archaeology, All these can now be seen as the product of a common cause – a misplaced faith in the immutability of the established framework, The resulting Dark Ages and all their ramifications really amount to a gigantic academic blunder” [12].

“Our materials for the reconstruction of a coherent picture are hopelessly inadequate” [13].

“The only real solution to the archaeological problems which have been created is to pull down the whole structure and start again, reconstructing from the foundations upward” [14].

“In reality, even with disease, famines, and natural disasters, the world population currently doubles every 40 years or so” [15].

“If we assume that Mizraim left Babel with a family of eight children (four boys and four girls), and if each couple averaged eight children every thirty years (which is probably quite conservative), in 150 years he could easily have had nearly 30,000 descendants. In 250 years, the population could explode to well over one million” [17].

1.       The Egyptians likely had knowledge of building pyramids from the Tower of Babel.

2.       They surely had many labor-saving technologies (cranes, hoists, etc.).

3.       The Egyptians could have hired outside help or used slave labor (as is evidenced by the time of Joseph, Genesis 37–40), or both [17].

“There are certainly many mutations which have been described as beneficial, but most of these beneficial mutations have not created information, but rather have destroyed it…. Information consistently decreases.”

“Irrespective of whether creationists or evolutionists do the calculations, somewhere between a few thousand and a few million mutations are enough to drive a human lineage to extinction, and this is likely to occur over a time scale of only tens to hundreds of thousands of years” [23].

With such a population clearly possible (and probable) in just a few thousand years, we could actually ask the question, “If humans were around millions of years ago, why is the population so small?” This is a question that evolution supporters must answer.

“The pyramids aren’t the only problem. There are dozens and dozens of building that pre-date even the flood [9], even buildings in the Americas. It’s hard to imagine these buildings being built so quickly after the flood with no signs of a population bottleneck.”

In my opinion, genetics is the strongest argument against Noah’s Flood. Creationist want me to believe that the entire human population went down to only 8 individuals shortly after the flood. Not only that, but the entire animal population went down to only 2 or 14 individuals. That means every one of us alive can trace our lineage back to only 8 people on the ark and every species can trace their lineage back to this event as well. If this was the case, genetics would present a major piece of evidence for the flood, but instead, it soundly refutes it. 

Whenever a population is severely reduced, it creates what is called a bottleneck effect. These effects can not only be seen in genetic sequencing, but also give us a ballpark for the date this happened. Ashkenazi Jews, for example, suffered a severe bottleneck about 100 generations ago which is the main cause of most Ashkenazi genetic disorders [13]. If every specie alive went through such a severe bottleneck, it would be noticed. Indeed, Mark Isaak notes [14]:

It is obvious that radiometric techniques may not be the absolute dating methods they are claimed to be. Age estimates on a given geological stratum by different radiometric methods are often quite different (sometimes by hundreds of millions of years)…. The uncertainties inherent in radiometric dating are disturbing to geologists and evolutionists. [6]

Although the rocks were obviously severely deformed, there was hardly any fracturing.  We all realized that the rock could not have been brittle when it was folded so tightly.  It must have been soft and plastic.  If the rocks had been hard and solid before they were deformed, they would have fractured, not folded. [13]

The average height reduction [through erosion] for all the continents across the earth’s surface is estimated to be around 2.4 inches (61 mm) per thousand years…. [at this rate of erosion] the North American continent would be eroded flat to sea level in ‘a mere 10 million years.’… Geologists often maintain that mountains still exist because uplift is constantly renewing them from below. However, even though mountains are still rising, the process of uplift and erosion could not continue long without eradicating ancient sedimentary layers contained in the mountains. Yet sedimentary strata that are supposedly very ancient are still well represented in the earth’s mountain ranges. [14]

Eventually they sank to the bottom with their heavy root-end penetrating the sediment and peat layers there. The initial sediment deposited in the lake raised its floor by some 90 m (300 ft), and further sediments were deposited in the subsequent months and years. As more logs sank they formed a ‘forest’ of vertical logs with their roots buried in sediment at different levels on the bottom (figure 10). If someone saw this but did not know how it formed, then they might think multiple forests had grown in place and been successively buried. But such an interpretation would be wrong. [15]

Usually when we find clam fossils they are jammed together in great numbers, not at all how they live in their life zones today. Thus, we discern the clams felt themselves in danger as they were transported and deposited along with other clams of roughly the same density and shape with many others, buried so deeply they couldn’t burrow out. They speak of a rapid depositional process, requiring only a short time. [24]

“Geological setting. The Fish River area near the Queensland-Northern Territory border (Fig. 1) has geological similarities to the Alligator Rivers Province. The basement rocks in the region are Early Proterozoic Murphy Metamorphics, the Nicholson Granite multiphase complex, and coeval acid lavas and ignimbrites of the Cliffdale Volcanics (Fig. 2) (Swear et al., 1981). Unconformably overlying these are the Middle Proterozoic Peters Creek Volcanics and Fickling Group sediments (including the Fish River Formation and the Walford Dolomite). These units are in turn unconformably overlain by thick sequences of Late Proterozoic quartz sandstones and siltstones of the South Nicholson Group. In the Fish River area, the Constance Sandstone is the basal unit of this sequence and contains the lenticular WaUis Siltstone Member (Fig. 5). Flat-lying friable sandstones, conglomerates and minor shales (Mullamen Beds) of probable Cretaceous age occur as mesa and plateau cappings, and valley fill. The area includes the Westmoreland deposit (4,700 t U308)”

"Since Egyptian dating is relied upon heavily to date other archeological finds, civilizations dated prior to and during Egyptian civilization are also subject to drastic time line revision. Traditional dating of the ancient world remains gravely flawed, and, until proper revisions are made to reconcile blatant discrepancies, traditional dating of ancient archeology remains replete with inaccuracies. The traditionally established ancient time line simply lacks credibility."

"Carbon dating assumptions have been calibrated based off of dating artifacts of known age [7]. These calibrated assumptions can then be used to carbon date artifacts of similar age. Therefore, the assumptions used in carbon dating artifacts such as Biblical manuscripts are well founded in evidence. However, no reference point artifact is available to properly calibrate the assumptions used for dating older specimens like Otzi man; therefore, these sorts of dates lack credibility."

"With such a population clearly possible (and probable) in just a few thousand years, we could actually ask the question, ‘If humans were around millions of years ago, why is the population so small?’ This is a question that evolution supporters must answer."

“Based upon numerous independent lines of evidence, we are forced to conclude that the problem of human genomic degeneration is real. While selection is essential for slowing down degeneration, no form of selection can actually halt it…. The extinction of the human genome appears to be just as certain and deterministic as the death of organisms, the extinction of stars, and the heat death of the universe.”