Earth's Past Records - Facts And Interpretation

There are events that definitely had left evidence, but were not interpreted correctly by scientist who were observing the evidence from the past.

Sin
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Romans 5:12 KJV)
So the LORD God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. (Genesis 3:23 HCSB)

The whole creation was originally perfect. The lion will eat straw like the ox (Isaiah 65:25) but sin changed everything. Now we see the lion eating the ox. We have houseflies and mosquitoes. And there is death and decay everywhere. It became the natural thing. There are earthquakes and tsunamis. Surely there must be traces left for such a major transition.

The Flood
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. (Genesis 7:10-12 KJV)

A global flood that destroyed all living things on land must have left evidences. The question is, do we recognize these evidences?

The Missoula Floods refer to the cataclysmic floods that swept across eastern Washington and down the Columbia River Gorge. Geologist J Harlen Bretz first recognized evidence of the catastrophic floods in the 1920s, which ran against the prevailing view of uniformitarianism. (Adapted from Wikipedia Missoula Floods)

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Bretz was ridiculed until 1940, when geologist Joe Pardee described giant ripple marks on the bed of Lake Missoula. The 50-foot-high ripples, he said, were formed by fast-flowing currents and not by the sluggish bottom water of a lake. Only sudden failure of the glacial dam could have released the 2,000-foot-deep lake. The catastrophic release of 600 cubic miles of water through a narrow gap would sweep away everything in its path. In 1979, when Bretz was 97 years old, the Geological Society of America awarded him its highest honor, the Penrose Medal.

Recognition of the Missoula flood helped other geologists identify similar landforms in Asia, Europe, Alaska, and the American Midwest, as well as on Mars.
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(Source: "Biblical-Type Floods Are Real, and They're Absolutely Enormous" Discover Magazine July-August 2012 issue)

The Genesis Flood is a cataclysmic flood like the Missoula Flood, except that it was on a global scale. We read that "all the fountains of the great deep broken up". The water not only come from the sky. It also came from the ground. The evidence is there, but it ran against the prevailing view that the Genesis Flood cannot be true.

Noah And Eve
According to a BBC news article, every male living today can trace their ancestry to a man (the Y-chromosomal Adam) who lived in Africa around 59,000 years ago and every female can trace their lineage back to a single Mitochondrial Eve who lived in Africa about 150,000 years ago. Articles had been written to explain that Adam and Eve never met and were not the only person living at that time, but just a lucky pair of guy and gal whose genes survived while the rest of their peers didn't. Whatever the explanations may be given to disprove the Biblical Adam and Eve, this fact can be interpreted to confirm the Bible. Every male is descended from Noah and every female is descended from Eve. Noah and Eve never met. Many scientist remembered Adam and Eve but forgot the flood. Now we just have to work on the time span.