Sea fossils have been found on mountaintops (Talk.Origins)

CC364:


 * Seashells and other marine fossils have been found on mountaintops, even very tall ones. These indicate that the sea once covered the mountains, which is evidence for a global flood.

Source
 * Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, 1985. Life--How Did It Get Here? Brooklyn, NY, p. 203.

CreationWiki response:

This is an out of date claim from a very poor source. It predates the idea of plate tectonics and is no longer a problem for uniformitarian geology, so it is out of date; that happens in science all the time. Both sides of the origin issue have loads of out of date claims.

The Genesis Flood was more than just a Flood. The flooding was just part of a massive geologic upheaval during which mountains were pushed up and valleys sank down.
 * "Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away (The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth." --Psalm 104:6-9 (ASV)

So when viewed as the catastrophic even it was the Genesis Flood is quite capable of explaining marine shells on mountains.

Since such mountains were pushed up during the Flood most if not all such fossils could have transported alive and actually lived in those areas for a time before being buried, assuming they were transported at all, which in some cases they may not have been.

No kidding, and in a global flood the entire Earth was under the sea. During the Flood living marine organisms come into freshly covered areas and live for a time, leaving tracks and burrows before fresh batch of sediment came in and buried them.

Links

 * Did Noah's Flood Cover the Himalayan Mountains? by John Morris.
 * Age of the Earth Debate, including one by Walt Brown.

External references

 * Video: The Record and the Flood, Geoscience Research Institute, Loma Linda, CA.
 * Taylor, Ian T., "In the Minds of Men," 1991, 3rd Edition, TFE Publishing, P.O. Box 1344, Stn. * F., Toronto, M4Y 2T1 Canada, p. 110.
 * Velikovsky, I., 1955. Earth In Upheaval, 1st Edition, Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY.
 * Huggett, R., 1989. Cataclysms And Earth History, Oxford University Press, NY, pp. 26-36.