Flood myths are told by probably the majority of human nations.  Formerly wide distribution was thought to prove the actuality of the Biblical Flood, or to be evidence of the descent of all mankind from a single nation that had once experienced it.  Refutation is hardly necessary.

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Ed Comment: A typical statement by an unbeliever.  Of course, globally occurring flood legends are not absolute proof there was a global flood, but ancient, globally occurring legends of a global flood are far better evidence for the historicity of a global flood than a dead 3' 6" tall ape with a "robust hip joint" is evidence that apes gave birth to men.  Any number of factors can cause an animal to lay down a little more calcium in some places.  The least likely explanation is that the ape was strongly thinking about, or well on the way to, giving birth to a man. 

Reflecting back on the flood legends.  Even if you are gullible enough to think man truly might have evolved from apes and, over a couple million years, acquired speech, while disbursing all over the world, you must consider that, after disbursal, they never communicated with each other.  How on earth, pun intended, did they all get the same legend?  Shakespeare got it right again, "Methinks Kroeber dost protest too much."

The ark had a door and three stories.  The stories functioned the same as the staterooms in providing a division of animals and a bracing of the structure.  The shape of the ark was boxy and angular, and not streamlined nor curved.  With this shape it increased its carrying capacity by one third.  It was a vessel designed for floating, not for sailing.  A model was made by Peter Jansen of Holland, and Danish barges called Fleuten were modeled after the ark.  These models proved that the ark had a greater capacity than curved or shaped vessels.  They were very seaworthy and almost impossible to capsize . . . . The stabililty of such a barge is great and it increases as it sinks deeper into the water.  The lower the center of gravity the more difficult it is to capsize.  If the center of gravity were low enough the ark or barge could only be capsized if violently rolled over.  Wherever the center of gravity may have been in the ark, it certainly was a most stable vessel.

"A flood which rose 15 cubits above the top of Ararat could not remain partial, if it only continued a few days, to say nothing of the fact that the water was rising for 40 days, and remained at the highest elevation for 150 days. To speak of such a flood as partial is absurd. Even if it broke out at only one spot, it would spread over the earth from one end to the other, and reach everywhere to the same elevation. However impossible, therefore, scientific men may declare it to be for them to conceive of a universal flood of such height and duration in accordance with the known laws of nature, this inability on their part does not justify anyone in questioning the possibility of such an event being produced by the omnipotence of God."

Darwin is liked by evolutionists because he liberated science from the straitjacket of observation and opened the door to storytellers.  This gave professional evolutionists job security so they can wander through biology labs as if they belong there.

"It is very important to realize that doubts about the archaeological acceptability of radiocarbon dates is not obscurantism nor another chapter in the battle of Science versus the Arts.  It is an attempt to evaluate all the available evidence, physical and non-physical . . . We are at a moment when some of us at least are uncertain how to answer the question: when is a Carbon-14 reading an archaeological fact? We certainly need reassurance beyond all reasonable doubt at the present moment that scientists know all about the variables involved, that Elsasser, Ney, and Winckler are wrong in supposing that there was variation in the intensity of cosmic-ray formation and that others are wrong in supposing that there were fluctuations in the original C-14 content."

[Editor's note by Daniel Glyn on Stuart Piggott's, "The Radio-Carbon Date from Durrington Walls," Antiquity XXXIII, No. 132 (Dec., 1959), p. 289]

The present status of knowledge of the sea floor in the Pacific Ocean area is such that a surprising amount of evidence of large-scale faulting, mountain-building, volcanic activity, and large-scale crustal movements is known; this is a marked departure from earlier assumptions, which, because of lack of information, held that this vast area had been relatively calm during geologic time.

"Already in the time of Cain, apparently in his advanced age,  a city could be built (probably at first simply an established colony), Gen. 4:17.  This is the less astonishing, since the life-energy of the youthful race must at the beginning have been very powerful.  Also, with the long lives of the parents, the number of children must have been much greater than later on; and, for the same reason, many generations must have lived alongside of each other at the same time.  With an average of only six children per family, by the time Cain was only 400 years old he would have had far more than 100,000 descendants."

 (Erich Sauer, The Dawn of World Redemption, trans. G.H. Lang {Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1952}, p. 67.)

One glance at a world map will show that, with the exception of the narrow break at the Bering Strait, a dry-land path leads from Armenia to all the lands of the globe except Australia.  In the case of the latter the East Indies even today form a fairly continuous bridge of stepping-stones to that southern continent.  As regards the Bering Strait, there is no doubt that a land connection once existed between Asia and North America.  With the strait closed, the cold waters of the Arctic would have been prevented from coming south, and the Japan Current would have curved around the coast line farther north than today.  The washing of those shores by the warm waters of this current would have produced a dry-land route that even tropical forms could have used.

"The richness of the deposits fits well with the Genesis record of the character and magnitude of the great Flood but accords very poorly with the uniformitarian notion that the relatively quiescent sedimentary processes of the present day, forming almost no fossils, can amount for the extensive fossil-bearing strata."

Almost all of the sedimentary rocks of the earth, which are the ones containing fossils and from which the supposed geologic history of the earth has been largely deduced, have been laid down by moving waters.  This statement is so obvious and so universally accepted that it needs neither proof nor elaboration.  Sedimentary rocks by definition are those that have been deposited as sediments, which the Oxford Universal Dictionary defines as "earthy or detrital matter deposited by aqueous agency."

Many attempts to answer these questions have engaged the attention of the best minds, but the existing answers leave much to be desired.  Complicated mechanisms in great variety have been adduced, but in all instances cogent objections have been raised.

The Central Question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear, No.

It has been argued that the series of paleontological finds is too intermittent, too full of "missing links" to serve as a convincing proof.  If a postulated ancestral type is not found, it is simply stated that it has not so far been found.  Darwin himself often used this argument and in his time it was perhaps justifiable.  But it has lost its value through the immense advances of paleobiology in the twentieth century. . . . The true situation is that those fossils have not been found which were expected.  Just where new branches are supposed to fork off from the main stem it has been impossible to find the connecting types. 

It is true that nobody thus far has produced a new species or genus, etc., by macromutation. It is equally true that nobody has produced even a species by the selection of micromutations.  In the best-known organisms, like Drosophila, innumberable mutants are known.  If we were able to combine a thousand or more of such mutants in a single individual, this still would have no resemblance whatsoever to any type known as a species in nature.

In spite of the immense amount of the paleontologic material and the existence of long series of intact stratigraphic sequences with perfect records for the lower categories, transitions between the higher categories are missing.

Evolution of the animal and plant world is considered by all those entitled to judgment to be a fact for which no further proof is needed.  But in spite of nearly a century of work and discussion there is still no unanimity in regard to the details of the means of evolution.

It seems evident, therefore, that the major geological inferences that can be derived from the Biblical record of the Flood are in good agreement with the actual geological facts as seen in the field.  But this does not mean, of course, that these facts have been thus interpreted.  They have rather been fitted as well as possible into the uniformitarian scheme of historical geology.  In fact, the sedimentary strata with their entombed fossils have been made the very basis of this system of interpretation.  These rocks have been divided into chronologic sequences based on the types of fossils contained in them, the resulting synthesis being the generally accepted "geological ages," with the fossil sequences supposedly demonstrating the evolutionary history of life on the earth.