Bone deposits have been found that indicate mixes of animals that under normal circumstance would not be found in each other's company; their bones being so mixed up as to warrant the speculation that a catastrophic occurence caused their demise. Such deposits may yet be found in polar regions. If they are, I'm sure those who take the biblical texts for what they say and mean will use such a discovery as evidence to support a global flood, while those who consider the biblical texts to be mere fairly tales or products of human invention will dismiss them as an anomaly, or perhaps the product of billions of years of glacial activity or some such.
Really? Examples, please.
Define catastrophic. Local floods and subsequent mudslides do occur.
"Such deposits may yet be found in polar regions. If they are, I'm sure those who take the biblical texts for what they say and mean will use such a discovery as evidence to support a global flood, while those who consider the biblical texts to be mere fairly tales or products of human invention will dismiss them as an anomaly, or perhaps the product of billions of years of glacial activity or some such.
Continents are measurably moving. Climates change. Only if you insist that all of the mechanisms of global change currently observed did not exist in the past and the physical laws governing their current action were completely different in the past can you ignore those observations.
If it is truly your belief that in the past the laws of the physical universe were different enough to enable a global flood while still leaving contrary evidence, and those differences in the laws leave no discernible telltale evidence then what is the purpose in trying to determine history? Perhaps those changes were as recent as yesterday and all that we have putatively experienced as 'the past' is just a figment of our minds churning away in some weird unknowable plane of existence (or pre-existence)?